Breast cancer survivors should take vitamin D - report
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Researchers state in an article published in the March 2010 issue of the journal Nutrition that vitamin d should be recommended for breast cancer survivors because evidence is evident that this vitamin can provide a myriad health benefits.
For one thing, Hines S. L. and colleagues from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida say there is evidence suggesting that vitamin D plays a role in breast cancer prevention and survival.
Previous studies have already reported that vitamin D intake is inversely associated with the risk of breast cancer, high levels of the vitamin improve survival after a diagnosis of breast cancer and vitamin D insufficiency is found in up to 75 percent of breast cancer patients.
Laboratory studies, according to the authors, have found that vitamin D affects up to 200 genes that affect cellular proliferation, apoptosis, angiogenesis, terminal differentiation of normal and cancer cells, and macrophase function.
Vitamin D affects the survival outcomes through different vitamin D receptor polymorphisms.
In addition to the anti-cancer properties, vitamin D may also improve bone mineral density, life quality and mood in breast cancer survivors.
The authors write "maintaining adequate vitamin D stores is recommended for breast cancer survivors throughout their lifetime."
Canadian Cancer Society recommends men and women take 1000 IU vitamin D daily to prevent cancer.
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My health was very greatly damaged by the side-effects of prescribed HRT. The most harmful side-effect was massive fluid retention, which in turn caused a host of other problems, including deficiencies of calcium and vitamin D. (It's too long a story to tell here.)
Anyway, last year I started to take the vitamin D supplements, and gradually increased the dosage. I was already taking calcium and magnesium supplements. The vitamin D has made my muscles very much stronger. I had become so weak from the side-effects of the HRT that it took a monumental effort to get up from a chair. It is much, much easier now.
My personal experience has made it clear to me that vitamin D (plus calcium) can ameliorate much of the harm done by the side-effects of steroid therapy, and could remedy much of the frailty experienced by older people who find rising from a chair a struggle.
It is Vitamin D3 that I take, as I am advised that this is the most effective form of Vitamin D.
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