New Study: Vitamin D Doubles Colon Cancer Survival Rates
One of the most deadly cancers in the United States is colon cancer. The Center for Disease Control has recently reported that in 2005 141,400 Americans received a diagnosis of colon cancer. The CDC also reported that 53,000 of those patients died the same year. It is believed that colon cancer can be completely prevented with various lifestyle adaptations. One of those crucial adaptations is increased amount of vitamin D.
A recent study shows that optimizing vitamin D has the ability to improve survival rates even of individuals that have already contracted the disease. That information has not been widely publicized, but the results of this study can be added to the volumes of studies that indicate that vitamin D produce incredible protection against a huge variety of cancers.
To date there are 800 plus studies that support the idea that vitamin D is very effective in preventing and treating cancer. One study that dates back all the way to 1989 was conducted on over 25,000 people for over eight years showed that people with vitamin D levels of 33 to 41 ng/ml lowered their risk of colon cancer by 80 percent. Vitamin D levels must be above 50 ng to crawl out of the sub-optimal category according to today’s standards. In fact, 65 to 90 ng/ml is the recommended level for cancer treatment.
Raising Your Vitamin D LevelsSince raising your vitamin D levels is very easy, inexpensive and can prevent...
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