'This month the University of Toronto School of Medicine held a conference entitled Diagnosis and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency. It was the largest gathering of Vitamin D researchers in North America this year.
Dr. Cedric Garland, who was the first to propose that Vitamin D deficiency explained the correlation between higher cancer rates at higher latitudes, was the highlight of the conference with his presentation entitled, "Breast Cancer as a Vitamin D Deficiency Disease."
His presentation proposed that breast cancer is a disease so directly related to Vitamin D deficiency that a woman' risk of developing the disease can be 'virtually eradicated' by maintaining Vitamin D levels at what are considered to be natural blood levels.
Dr Vieth, another champion of the Vitamin D story, explained that the natural Vitamin D levels found in mammals who live outdoors in sunny climates is as high as 200nmol/L (80ngms/ml). Dr. Garlands data proposed that raising Vitamin D levels to near those natural levels would decrease the risk of breast cancer by 77%.
The conference was arranged by Dr. Reinhold Vieth of the University of Toronto in conjunction with Grassroots Health, an group founded by breast cancer survivor Carole Baggerly. Both have dedicated themselves to spreading the word about the consequences of Vitamin D deficiency throughout the world and particularly in Canada.
The Grassroots organization has assembled a "D-action" panel of thirty of the world's leading researchers on Vitamin D. This group now recommends that 2000IU of Vitamin D3 daily is needed and that blood levels should be maintained between 100-150nmol/L (40-50ngms/ml).
Research conducted by the University of Calgary has shown as many as 97% of Canadians are Vitamin D deficient due to the countries high latitude and lack of sun exposure.
More than 3000 scientific papers on Vitamin D have been published in the last twelve months making Vitamin D the most talked about topic in medicine this year. This work has connected Vitamin D deficiency with more that two dozen forms of cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis and multiple other conditions.
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Original article from Vitamind3world.com newsletter
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