Lately, I’ve been getting people writing in asking if they should worry if they Store Vitamin D. Now, I’m not sure where people have got the idea that storing vitamin d is something that is worrisome or something harmful, but let me set the record straight that you should not worry if you store vitamin [...]

The Journal of the American Medical Association reported the results of a study that says that the Elderly With Chronic Pain Fall More. This is NOT news at all, and while they claim, “Despite a growing body of scientific evidence supporting associations between a number of risk factors and falls, efforts to translate these findings [...]

When you think of ‘Prescription Strength’, most of us will think, somehow, that it is automatically better or stronger than a similar ‘Over the Counter’ variety. But with prescription vitamin D supplements, this is far from the case. In fact, these prescription vitamin D supplements are Completely inferior to the vitamin D3 supplements that you [...]

Question: I have been Vitamin D deficient now for almost a year. They have had me on 50,000 units once a week until recently and have now bumped me up to 50,000 twice a week. However, I am still deficient. I am always tired, have to force myself to do things most days, and have [...]

  When we speak of disease and health, we often think that people who are healthy are ‘lucky’ and people who are unhealthy as ‘unlucky’. But the debate is beginning to tip towards the fact that environmental factors influence genetics more than we can ever imagine, and luck of the genes has less to do [...]

Question: Why is 50,000 prescribed once a week,instead of 7000 units per day? Does the body store the surplus and release it daily into the body?   Answer: Vitamin D is a Fat soluble Vitamin and it does, indeed, store it up and ‘time release’ the Vitamin D into the body. HOWEVER, the Vitamin D [...]

  Multiple Sclerosis is a horrible disease with few treatment options except hope. It often strikes at a young age and leaves the afflicted unable to care for themselves when they should be in the prime of their lives. It gets its name from the ‘sclerosed’ appearance that the fatty outer layer of the spinal [...]

  Kids get so little Vitamin D these days, that Rickets- a disease that was thought to be virtually eradicated over 50 years ago in developed countries- is back again. Rickets,  with it’s characteristic bowed legs from improper bone hardening, is caused by a simple nutritional deficiency. Yet children right here in the US are getting [...]

A recent study shows that Lung Tumors Destroy Vitamin D The researchers stated that the chemoprotective effects of Vitamin D were being thwarted by the cancer and that they were investigating what the right level of Vitamin D would be to help fight lung cancer. They stated,     “…one day Vitamin D could be [...]

Could Vitamin D be more important in the Long Term than the Short Term? When Researchers found out that Vitamin D Deficiency was the cause of Rickets, they thought that their problems were solved. Minute amounts of Vitamin D in milk basically solved the Rickets problem. End of story, pat on the back, job well [...]