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Studies show that about 40% of American adults will experience vertigo at some point in their lives. But what is vertigo and what can be done to help?
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Heart Failure Is Scary But It Can Be Helped, Part 2 – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 320
In part 1 Jerry Hickey, Ph. discussed the symptoms of heart failure and factors that can increase your risk. Now let’s review the nutritional side of heart health.
Why Vitamin D Is Essential For Survival – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 285
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I once wrote an article about how Vitamin D was improving people’s lifespan and healthspan. Lifespan is how long you live, but healthspan is how long you stay healthy. There’s been a huge amount of research coming out over the past several decades, but recently it’s hit the ground running. I want to discuss some of the new data that’s come out in the past several weeks on Vitamin D because it’s rather amazing and I really think that almost everyone can get value from taking this supplement.†
Vitamin D is a magnificent, very safe supplement. It is very cost effective, very safe and seems to be unbelievably protective. If you’re going to take a Vitamin D supplement, make sure it’s a really high quality supplement. Another tip: D3, also known as cholecalciferol, seems to be superior to D2, which is ergocalciferol.†
Vitamin D and COVID-19
On December 21, 2020, there was a very important letter sent out to world governments by 120 science and medical experts from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe. This letter said that there is clear evidence that Vitamin D reduces COVID-19 infections, but also helps keep you out of the hospital and helps prevent you from dying. This group of scientists is calling for immediate, widespread, increased Vitamin D intakes. Most of the signatories to the letter declared that they were personally taking at least 4000 units per day.†
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In the letter, they cite new mechanisms specific to SARS-CoV-2 that are now very well understood. They said that with a body of evidence including a whole bunch of different biological mechanisms showing how Vitamin D directly influences your outcome with the COVID-19 infection. They said that there are more than 70 studies showing that higher levels of Vitamin D in the blood are connected with a lower risk of getting an infection, and also that you have a lower risk of being hospitalized. In other words, if you got the virus, it wasn’t as mean or as dangerous. These studies also indicated that higher levels in the blood could help keep COVID-19 patients out of the intensive care unit and could help prevent death.†
Here’s a study from the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Heidelberg that was published in the journal Nutrients last September. The researchers were looking at the level of Vitamin D in a person’s blood and its connection to how severe the COVID-19 infection would become and how it impacted survival. They looked at 185 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 and treated at the University of Heidelberg Medical Center. The researchers found that patients with a deficiency had a higher risk of having a severe COVID infection, like winding up in the intensive care unit, winding up on oxygen or winding up with a mechanical ventilator. They had a 612% increased risk of winding up with a serious disease and the risk of dying was 1473% higher.†
For additional reports relating to Vitamin D and COVID-19, tune into the full podcast episode.
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Additional risks deficiency
A report that came out on February 16, 2021 indicated that Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of being hospitalized in older adults, as well as how long they stay in the hospital. This applies to people over the age of 60, according to this cross-sectional study of over 3000 people. Previous studies have also indicated that if you lack this vitamin, you have an increased risk of being hospitalized, being readmitted to the hospital, having a longer stay in the hospital and of being admitted to a nursing home. There is also evidence that lacking Vitamin D is involved with multiple sclerosis (MS) and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and infections.†
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The Cold Weather Nutrient Support You Need – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 267
What is it about cold weather that makes us more susceptible to coming down with the common cold? Let’s ensure your immune system is ready to fend off anything that can cause damage, especially during the winter.
COVID-19 Research Recommends Vitamin D Supplementation – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 251
There are numerous studies that have displayed evidence of Vitamin D supplementation benefiting COVID-19 patients. Here’s what you need to know to keep your body healthy throughout this pandemic.
What Science Says About Vitamin D & Cancer Survival – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 236
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More research shows that having a good level of Vitamin D in the blood or taking a Vitamin D supplement helps cancer survival. The science says that people who have better levels of Vitamin D have better survival.
Data on the relationship between Vitamin D and cancer
Studies have been coming out for several decades that Vitamin D supplements or having higher blood levels have been connected with a lower risk of several cancers, including colon cancer, rectal cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer. Starting about ten years ago, studies started coming out that people with higher blood levels actually survive cancer better, some serious cancers.†
This study came out in the British Journal of Cancer at the end of 2009. It was completed by Harvard researchers. They said that higher blood levels of Vitamin D may double survival rates for patients with colorectal cancer. That’s powerful. People with the highest average levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, also known as 25-hydroxycholecalciferol, had a cancer-specific mortality half that of people with the lowest average levels. 25-hydroxycholecalciferol is the storage form of Vitamin D that is not yet activated. The activated form is called 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol D. Higher levels after a diagnosis of colorectal cancer was associated with improved survival in this study.†
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A meta-analysis of a group of studies that was reported in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine back in 2007 showed that people with higher blood levels of the vitamin had a lower risk of developing colon cancer. So, it’s not just surviving colon cancer, it’s also the risk of colon cancer.†
Here’s a meta-analysis from 2011. A meta-analysis, when done right, proves either that something works or doesn’t work because they’re taking a whole bunch of studies and grouping together the results. This makes the data much more powerful. This meta-analysis comes from the International Journal of Cancer Research and shows that higher blood levels of Vitamin D are associated with a reduced risk of developing colorectal cancer. That’s a meta-analysis of observational studies, including nine human clinical trials. They saw that for every ten-point increase, the associated risk of colorectal cancer decreased by 15%. That means that if your Vitamin D was 20 and someone else’s was 40, that person’s risk of colorectal cancer would be 30% lower. That’s pretty important.†
Here’s a review of cancer survival. They’re looking at breast cancer and colorectal cancer. This is in April 2014. Patients with higher levels, when they were diagnosed with either breast cancer or colorectal cancer, had an improved ability to survive the cancers. They had a better chance of survival and remaining in remission for a longer time, compared to people who were deficient in Vitamin D. This was a meta-analysis published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. It included 25 studies with a total of 17,332 cancer patients. The researchers found that for every ten-point improvement, there was an improvement in the ability to survive cancers.†
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Tune into the full podcast episode for more studies on the relationship between this vitamin and cancer survival.
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