Vitamin D and Prevention of Chronic Diseases

Michael Holick, MD

Presents:

 

Can vitamin D help prevent certain cancers and other diseases such as type 1 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and certain autoimmune and chronic diseases? To answer these questions and more, UCSD School of Medicine and Grassroots Health bring you this innovative series on vitamin D deficiency. Join nationally recognized experts as they discuss the latest research and its implications. In this program, Michael Holick, MD, discusses vitamin D relating to bone and muscle health and the prevention of autoimmune and chronic diseases. Series: Vitamin D Deficiency - Treatment and Diagnosis [3/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Professional Medical Education.] For more UC Television... 

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Vitamin D is linked to many illnesses, although it is not known how.  What if Vitamin D's main function is to kill viruses?  What if all illnesses linked to Vitamin D are caused by viruses?

 

Courtesy of:  Naked Science Forum

• Diabetes + Virus
• Pancreatic cancer + mutated DNA

Here are some Vitamin D research links:

• Diabetes (PubMed - Vitamin D supplementation in early childhood and risk of type 1 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.)
  
• Multiple sclerosis (PubMed - The causal cascade to multiple sclerosis: a model for MS pathogenesis)

• Heart disease (PubMed - Vitamin D deficiency and risk of cardiovascular disease
• Parkinson's (PubMed - Prevalence of vitamin d insufficiency in patients with Parkinson disease and Alzheimer disease)

And there's plenty more - look on PubMed or Vitamin D Council. I'm not able to assess whether the quality of the research, but there's lot of it.

Regards,
Kevan