Daily vitamin regimen?

I take a One-a-Day for Women, 1000 iu Vitamin D in the morning and then 500 mg Calcium w/Vitamin D, 250 mg Magesium in the evening.  

I suggest you read the labels and look for quantities of necessary vitamins and minerals.  I know that I didn't want vitamins with a lot of extra stuff in them.  Unnecessary in my opinion.  

And I also eat copious amounts of fruits and vegetables every day.   

Oh and I also take 4 Omega-3 gummy fish (Trader Joes).  The are delicious!

Lorrie 

Athena is on the right track about Vitamin D.  EVERYONE should get their Vitamin D levels checked.  To bring it up by 10 points, you need to increase your dosage by 1,000 iu.  I get a total of about 2,000 a day and I had my doctor check my levels and they are fine.

Lorrie 

You should avoid antioxidants while in treatment.  It can interfere with the effectiveness of chemo &/or radiation.  

 Lorrie 

So true!  I had to ask my onc to check my levels as requested by my nutritionist.  I'm not sure he was completely happy about it but I don't care!

Lorrie

My vitamin D levels go down as soon as I cut back to a lower level so my docs want me to take about 5000IUs indefinitely. Right now I'm using liquid drops in the hope that they are absorbed better by my system. My blood level was 31 at my most recent test and we want to get it up to about 60.

Other supplements I take:

DIM

Curcumin

B12(I tested low)

Multi-B vitamin

CoQ10

Fish Oil

Probiotic

Generic centrum silver--I'm still searching for a good multi if anyone has any suggestions...!

Periodically take vitamin C esp if I have surgery coming up but it irritates my bladder so I don't take it daily.

I have to check what else I take. I make up little daily packets every week so I when I do that, I'll update.

I take a multi vitamin (with out iron)

Calcium & vit D

just added fish oil/Omega 3

I do eat a variety of fruit, veggie, beans, grains etc and try to avoid heavy processed food. 

22. May 2009 01:34

"The first event in cancer is loss of communication among cells due to, among other things, low vitamin D and calcium levels," said epidemiologist Cedric Garland, DrPH, professor of family and preventive medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, who led the work. "In this new model, we propose that this loss may play a key role in cancer by disrupting the communication between cells that is essential to healthy cell turnover, allowing more aggressive cancer cells to take over."

Reporting online May 22, 2009 in the Annals of Epidemiology, Garland suggests that such cellular disruption could account for the earliest stages of many cancers. He said that previous theories linking vitamin D to certain cancers have been tested and confirmed in more than 200 epidemiological studies, and understanding of its physiological basis stems from more than 2,500 laboratory studies.

"Competition and natural selection among disjoined cells within a tissue compartment, such as might occur in the breast's terminal ductal lobular unit, for example, are the engine of cancer," Garland said. "The DINOMIT model provides new avenues for preventing and improving the success of cancer treatment."

Garland went on to explain that each letter in DINOMIT stands for a different phase of cancer development. "D" stands for disjunction, or loss of intercellular communication; "I," for initiation, where genetic mutations begin to play a role; "N" for natural selection of the fastest-reproducing cancer cells; "O" for overgrowth of cells; "M" for metastasis, when cancer cells migrate to other tissues, where cancer can kill; "I" refers to involution, and "T" for transition, both dormant states that may occur in cancer and potentially be driven by replacing vitamin D.

While there is not yet definitive scientific proof, Garland suggests that much of the evolutionary process in cancer could be arrested at the outset by maintaining vitamin D adequacy. "Vitamin D may halt the first stage of the cancer process by re-establishing intercellular junctions in malignancies having an intact vitamin D receptor," he said.

According to Garland, other scientists have found that the cells adhere to one another in tissue with adequate vitamin D, acting as mature epithelial cells. Without enough vitamin D, they may lose this stickiness along with their identity as differentiated cells, and revert to a stem cell-like state.

Garland said that diet and supplements can restore appropriate vitamin D levels, and perhaps help in preventing cancer development. "Vitamin D levels can be increased by modest supplementation with vitamin D3 in the range of 2000 IU/day," he noted.

The researchers noted that many studies show an apparent beneficial effect of vitamin D and calcium on cancer risk and survival of patients with breast, colorectal and prostate cancer. However, there are some studies that have not found such benefit, especially when taking smoking, alcohol and viruses into account. While more research needs to be done, Garland recommends that individuals should have their vitamin D level tested during an annual check up.

Garland and his colleagues have published epidemiological studies about the potential preventive effects of vitamin D for some two decades. Last year, his team showed an association between deficiency in sunlight exposure, low vitamin D and breast cancer. In previous work, they showed associations between increased levels of vitamin D3 or markers of vitamin D and a lower risk for breast, colon, ovarian and kidney cancers.