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Concerns Over Effectiveness of Vitamin D Supplements
Doubts Over Vitamin D Supplements
Vitamin D is really good for you, or so the story goes. Of course we have to have a minimum quantity of the sunshine vitamin in our systems, because we get rickets without it, but as a protection against cancer or heart disease it is not all that it is sometimes hyped up to be. There are two new reviews of all the evidence, out this week from the Annals of Medicine. There have been several hundred studies into the nature of vitamin D and these studies have pulled all this evidence together.
To further add to our a group of medics at Boston’s Women’s Hospital are conducting a nationwide aimed at testing vitamin D and fish oil heart attack and cancer preventives.
How bad is sun exposure for your health?
“10 Minutes of sun exposure between 10:00 AM and 3:00 PM generally equals 200 glasses of milk in vitamin D” (Source and inspiration)
It is a very recent phenomena that people spend their time indoors more so that outdoors. This results in a decreased cancer rate and better health, if we can believe popular media that is… As it turns out, the results of not being in the sun are often WORSE that the cancer we may get from UVA exposure. Since the industrial revolution we turned from a generally outdoors agricultural people to an indoors manufacturing people with the consequences that bears…
Health Benefits of Astaxanthin?
Astaxanthin is a very potent antioxidant that we’ll be hearing more and more about over the coming years. Specifically, it functions as a carotenoid antioxidant though it does not get converted to vitamin A. Though it’s a ubiquitous pigment found in the marine environment which provides the pinkish-red color to lobsters, shrimp, salmon, and crayfish, it’s actually produced by microalgae and phytoplankton.
