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"As an organ, your skin is active metabolically; for instance it is instrumental in vitamin d absorption. It is also a major sensory organ, linking you to the environment, and so bioenergetically it has a strong connection to Earth's Big Field. Your skin also responds almost instantaneously to conscious and unconscious emotions, changing color (blushing) and texture (goose bumps) according to your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, so it is part of the nervous system information network." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"VITAMIN D CUTS CANCER RISK IN HALF STUDY SAYS The headlines should read: "Revealed—The Pill That Prevents Cancer" and "News Flash—CNN Reports That a Multi-Year Medical Study on 2,300,000 People Shows That vitamin d Reduces Cancer by 50 Percent." The research is in and of course the news media doesn't report it. When I say it I'm called a liar and promoting quackery, but how can you disagree with the research?" - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"With the exception of vitamin d, which your body can manufacture directly from sunlight, you must get the A, E, K, and other fat-soluble vitamins in your diet, and they must be consumed as or with fat. The fats that we used to consume as recently as fifty years ago came from animals that fed primarily on grass and leaves. Remember that carnivores get most of their micronutrients by consuming the fatty organs of their grass-eating prey, a fact critical to understanding this second innate drive to find fat." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"The cost of generic calcium and vitamin d is about $3.60 per month. Studies also suggest that diets with a higher ratio of animal to vegetable proteins increase the rate of bone loss in women 65 and older. In an observational study, women whose diets contained the highest proportion of animal protein were almost four times more likely to suffer a fractured hip than women whose primary source of protein was vegetables. This is just a sampling of some of the research that doesn't get pushed out into the public's awareness by commercial sponsors." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"When possible, expose your skin to sunshine for brief periods each day. vitamin d, manufactured by the action of sun on the skin, is needed for health. Avoid tanning lotions because they clog pores; instead, you can use hemp oil. It thoroughly penetrates the skin and contains a natural spf of 15. Get involved in exercise such as walking, swimming, skipping, using an electrically tuned mini-trampoline, aerobics, strength training, stretching, and so forth. Have times for breathing deeply, including diaphragm breathing, to increase oxygen absorption and reduce stress." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"His papers on how vitamin d helps to prevent autoimmune disease are as likely to appear in Nutrition in Clinical Practice as his papers on T-cell activity in Crohn's disease have been in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. He now serves as a fellow at Dr. Andrew Weil's program in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona. "The idea that we should rely solely on drug therapies to help autoimmune-disease patients is antiquated," Mullin posits as we enter his Hopkins office, where photos of his nieces and nephews sit on the windowsill and complementary health tomes line bookshelves." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"A lot of research sug- O rests that calcium and vitamin d supplements 03 O may reduce the severity of PMS, and there ^ appears to be a link between PMS and low % rn dietary calcium intake. Taking 1 to 1.2 g of cal- 1/1 cium daily seems to really reduce depressed mood, water retention, and pain. In one study, women consuming an average of 1,283 mg of calcium a day from foods had about a 30 percent lower risk of developing PMS compared to women consuming much less (529 mg)." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"For those who live far from the equator, in cold climates with little sunshine, I feel it is crucial to take a vitamin d supplement. Dr. Bisci does not shy away from giving people hefty dosages of vitamin d, if the person's condition would benefit. This is done under supervision. Super Green Foods We need GREENS! One of the greatest challenges we face as modern-day Raw Foodists is eating enough nutritious greens. Our salads would have to be gigantic to get an optimal amount of greens, and even then, green nutrients can be locked tightly within the dense fibers." - Matt Monarch, Raw Success (Get the book.)

"Vitamin D deficiencies may result in malformation of bones and joints, and brittle bones. vitamin d is in salmon, sardines, cod-liver oil, herring, and mackerel. Vitamin E (Alpha-tocopherol) Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin that acts as an anti-blood clotting agent. It also promotes muscle growth and repair, improves the immune system, promotes the healing of many skin problems, and improves the heart and circulatory system. Vitamin E deficiencies may result in muscle weakness, lethargy, and lack of energy." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"While experts say that in just 10 minutes you can soak up as much as 5,000 IU of vitamin d if you expose 40 percent of your body to the sun without sunscreen, given the link between skin cancer and sun exposure, you may be better off sticking to that glass of milk. DIET AND DIABETES Among all chronic diseases, diabetes best illustrates the power of food in ensuring good health. One in every 20 people in the United States has diabetes, and the numbers keep growing each year. In fact, the typical high-fat, sedentary American lifestyle puts most of us at risk of developing type 2 diabetes." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "One group consumed calcium and vitamin d in the form of cheese, while the other received supplements. The cheese-eating group appeared to have the larger increase in bone mass. Lower risk of high blood pressure. Researchers in Spain studied more than 5,000 adults between 20 and 90 years of age and found that the people who consumed the most low-fat dairy (mostly fat-free and reduced-fat milk) were 54 percent less likely to develop high blood pressure over a 2-year period than the people with the lowest intakes." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "CALCIUM, vitamin d, AND A LOW-FAT DIET TO EASE PMS DISTRESS Got PMS? Many of you will answer yes because, according to some estimates, about two-thirds of women report regular premenstrual discomfort, with about one-third seeking; help from a health care provider. And about 3 to 8 percent of women experience severe impairment called premenstrual dysphoric disorder. These pesky and sometimes debilitating PMS symptoms occur between ovulation and the start of your period." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Osteomalacia (adult form of vitamin d deficiency): Supplementation with optimal doses of vitamin d can prevent osteomalacia, even in the absence of adequate sunlight. Osteomalacia causes softening of the bones and inadequate mineralization of the bone matrix. It is also associated with an acceleration of bone loss. Over time, it can cause muscle weakness or diffuse aches, and bone pain or tenderness. It is typically diagnosed following an acute fracture. Osteoporosis: Seventy-five million persons in the United States, Europe, and Japan suffer from osteoporosis. In Canada, the prevalence is 15." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"See Francis Portenger, Jr, "The Effect of Heat-Processed Foods and Metabolized vitamin d Milk on the Dentofacial Structures of Experimenral Animals," American Journal of Orthodontics and Oral Surgery, vol. 32, no. 8 (August 1946): 467-485; Pottenger, Pottenger's Cats: A Study in Nutrition, (La Mesa, CA: Price-Pottenger Foundation, Inc., 1995). DR. EDWARD HOWELL At the same time that Dr. Pottenger was overseeing the clinical study in California and Dr. Wolf was researching in New York, Dr. Edward Howell of Chicago was questioning the use of cooked and processed food for human consumption." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"But skin must also pass enough sunlight to support production of the vitamin d needed to make healthy bones. As our ancestors spread around the globe, these opposing pressures colored the skin of people in different tegions. The dominant need for UV protection favored dark skin in the tropics; the need for vitamin d favored lighter skin in the northern latitudes. Technological innovation played a key role in the spread and adaptation of people to new environments." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"There is growing evidence that vitamin d plays a central role in rebalancing T-cell activity, which is why it is proving to be such an important adjunct to the treatment of autoimmune diseases such as MS and Crohn's disease. One provocative investigation looked at forty-two thousand people to determine why those born in the month of May have a 13 percent increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis (while being born in November carries a 19 percent decreased risk)." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Perhaps, if higher doses of vitamin d are consumed ?800 iu per day rather than the customary 400 iu per day ?there would be an effect on the incidence of fragility fractures (Bischoff-Ferrari et al. 2005), but not much of an effect. One can demonstrate an increase in bmd, even in healthy children (Winzenbert et al. 2006)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Like other natural supplements—such as vitamin d and antioxidants, which modulate pro-inflammatory cytokines—probiotics often produce their own anti-inflammatory chemicals. Indeed, recent research finds that therapy with the probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri directly modulates pro-inflammatory cytokine production in mice, and a recent paper published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology showed that the majority of patients taking a probiotic mixture of eight bacteria, known as VSL#3, for six weeks improved their ulcerative colitis." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Juices fortified with vitamin d can also boost exposure, as can taking supplements. CURCUMIN. According to a recent study from the National Institutes of Health, turmeric, an ancient spice long used in traditional Asian medicine, may hold promise for the prevention of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis. Scientists tested the extract of curcuminfound in this common spice—to see if it could help to stave off rheumatoid arthritis in lab animals." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"The benefit of this level of vitamin d is currently being investigated. Polyphenols are the main contributor to the antioxidant activity of mushrooms. Another antioxidant called ergothioneine, known for its anticancer properties, reaches its greatest value in fungi. Home Remedies Many species of mushrooms and fungi that have been utilized for thousands of years as folk medicines, for anything from warding off cancer to fighting heart disease, have come under intense study by ethnobotanists and medical researchers in recent years. Throw Me a Lifesaver!" - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"All postmenopausal women should be exercising routinely, eating a healthy diet, taking calcium and vitamin d supplements, and decreasing their risk of falls. Bone density tests are hardly needed to make these recommendations. If a fraction of the resources spent on the exaggerated risk of osteoporosis were invested in these other ways to improve women's health, hip fractures could be greatly reduced and overall health greatly improved." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"With adequate sunlight, our bodies can make vitamin d, but getting enough is a real problem for (continued on page 127) Bet you never thought bacteria would be a good thing! Well, your body actually needs a healthy amount of "good," or beneficial, bacteria in the digestive tract. We can promote the activity of these beneficial bacteria by eating probiotic and prebiotic foods. Pro-biotic foods contain the good bacteria, while prebiotic foods are the "helpers," providing nutrients that the good bacteria thrive on. So what does all this have to do with yogurt?" - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Probably the largest body of work established that there is a significant relationship among EFAs, the actions of vitamin d, the transport of calcium across the membrane, and an increase in membrane fluidity followed by an increase in calcium absorption. As mentioned earlier in the nutrition section, deficiencies of EFAs modify bone fatty acid levels and have profound effects on the degree of mineralization of the bone. Animals fed EFA-deficient diets also develop osteoporosis. Evidence is also building that prostaglandins have an influence on bone metabolism." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Once it has been synthesized in the skin, it is converted into 25-hydroxy vitamin d and then into 1,25 -dihydroxy vitamin d, which is the active hormone. The body can make 10,000 to 12,000 IU when exposed to sunlight containing enough ultraviolet light. This would appear to be the ideal dose; however, doses of 800 IU daily have been considered to be adequate until recently. We have accepted the advice of dermatologists that ultraviolet light is very dangerous and that we should expose ourselves to the sun as little as possible because it is believed to cause skin cancer." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"A deficiency of Vitamin A will increase susceptibility to infection, as will deficiency of vitamin d. Vitamin E protects the mucous membranes and can increase resistance to bacterial and yeast infections. Vitamins B6 and B5 stimulate the immune system,- a vitamin B6 deficiency is associated with depletion of white blood cells in the thymus, spleen and lymph nodes and lowered antibody production. Combinations of various vitamins with omega 3 and omega 6 oils regulate inflammatory reactions in the body." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "The absorption of several minerals including calcium and zinc is reduced by too much bran in the diet, and if the body is deficient in vitamin d calcium will not be absorbed properly. A greater proportion of iron is absorbed from food if it is eaten in meat rather than contained in fresh green vegetables. Of course, not all minerals are good for you in large quantities, and care must be taken not to overdose yourself. For instance, too much salt (sodium chloride) in the diet causes high blood pressure." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "It doesn't quite cover everything an asthmatic requires, though, so we recommend that in addition you should take extra Vitamin A and vitamin d, preferably in the natural and concentrated form of a cod liver oil capsule, along with 2000-2500 mg of Vitamin C using ascorbate acid or rosehip juice (see advice above on building up the dose slowly). Vitamin E in the form of a spoonful of wheatgerm daily is also good for asthmatics and if Vitamin P (bioflavonoids) improves your asthma you should add it to your daily supplement. The quantities recommended for supplementation are for adults only." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"This helps to provide nutrients to build strength. vitamin d (which is actually a hormone not a vitamin) strengthens bones and helps to increase bone mass and mineralization. vitamin d is formed internally by exposure of the skin to the Sun. Slowing the metabolism will allow one to increase their weight. There is great value in avoiding frequent snacks. The way to gain weight on The Sunfood Diet is to eat more food, less often. The more often you eat, the quicker your metabolism runs, and the more weight you will lose." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"All African Americans have vitamin d deficiency and they consequently have higher rates of cancer. Slathering on sunscreen is not such a good idea. We've gone too far with sunscreen because we're not getting enough vitamin d. This is a "coming public health disaster in the US." Everyone should get a half hour of sunshine a day. "People say the cancer rates are increasing, that's all nonsense." To illustrate the point, he showed several slides of declining cancer deaths.2 Natural and synthetic substances have the same cancer "hit rates." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

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