Vitamin D Deficiency Study

Options
2»

Comments

  • Rosemary44
    Rosemary44 Member Posts: 2,660
    edited January 2008

    "Dr. Marshall takes these wild speculations further, suggesting that untold dangers lurk in terms of adverse influence on obesity and the metabolic syndrome consequent to high dose Vitamin D3 supplementation, strongly implying and predicting - without an iota of supporting evidence"

    Exactly.  Thank you Edge and Susie.  Plus the heart health, he's blaming poor heart health on us taking D.  I never took D in my life before I was attacked by diseases.  Well, nevermind.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2008

    Susie, thanks for contacting Constantine.  Bless his pea-picking heart!

    I am no scientist and do not understand most of this "scio-bio" lingo (BET YA'LL DIDN'T KNOW THAT, DID'JA? Laughing), but when I read this article I thought just on what are you basing this info. What studies?  Sometimes, ladies, some high regarded people like to show off just how smart they "seem to be."  They write a paper.  Cool  And HERE WE GO AGAIN!  Yell  They get us all "weirded out" and we begin to question the very things they we've read about the good such and such is doing, and we hold our breath thinking, oh, what have I done to myself!  Personally, I'm sick and tired of it.

    As far as vitamin D, like Rosemary, I never took any before any of my "diseases" came to wreak havoc with my body.  I stayed out of the sun.  I'm not an "outdoorsy" kind of person (oh, I did get some bad sunburns two years in a row wanting to tan this fair skin...suffered sunburns and peeled.......that was a very long time ago...BUT GOT PLENTY OF VITAMIN D and the beach was gorgeous! Smile). 

    Sign me ARRRGGGGHHHHH!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2008

    Oh, and I got fat before vitamin D.  It was the amitriptyline that triggered that!  I wasn't fat before the stupid drug!  And I'm still on it.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Calico
    Calico Member Posts: 1,108
    edited January 2008

    Thank you Susie, Thank you Constantine.

    This puts my mind at rest.....and I question Science Daily for "quack" reporting. Can anyone just submit anything to that paper to get 5 min. of fame? I keep reading...with two grains of salt.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • paige-allyson
    paige-allyson Member Posts: 781
    edited January 2008
    Thank you! I am running to my bottle of D3 right now. Laughing It's a pleasure in this ambiguous world of "cancerland" to for once have a question answered so definitively. Allyson
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • mkl48
    mkl48 Member Posts: 350
    edited February 2008

    How did you decide on 3,000units of D3. What do you do about magnesium? Most food high in it are also highly phytoestrogenic like black beans.Beth

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • yellowfarmhouse
    yellowfarmhouse Member Posts: 279
    edited February 2008

    Just wondering your thoughts....... should those of us in northern states consider getting vitamin D in a different way?  Does a tanning bed work?  I tan 12 minutes a week currently as it  helps my echema( not sure how to spell it-- the skin condition). 

    wendy

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • saluki
    saluki Member Posts: 2,287
    edited February 2008

    Kmb50- Take a look at Constantines commentary at the NS site.

    It will give you insight about the D3 dosage--scroll down the page a bit.

    http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/nosurrenderbreastcancer/vpost?id=2297093

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2008

    Hi all, here in canada the vitamin D thing made news headlines. My doc put me on 1000mg a day, plus 1000mg a day calcium. You really won't get enough from sun especially in winter plus risk of skin cancer if overexposed. Best natural way is codliver oil.......yuck....mom used to give us those when we were kids....but you really would not get enough through diet alone.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • paige-allyson
    paige-allyson Member Posts: 781
    edited February 2008

    I take 1000mg of D3 recommended by my oncologist and pcp. D3 is the form of the vitamin- there's some reason why D3 is the one to take but I don't recall why. I take a form of calcium citrate that has magnesium as well. Beth- re: the foods with high magnesium content- I don't worry much over the phytoestrogen content of foods other than avoiding soy and flax. Crazydaisy- I take a good tasting fish oil- Barlean's- pharmaceutical grade- has lemon and rosemary as flavorings- it could almost (but not quite) work as a salad dressing. The othe rgood thing about it is that it is made from small fish- therefore not a lot of toxins.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • RobinWendy
    RobinWendy Member Posts: 1,983
    edited February 2008

    Hi all:

    Just wanted to add my 2 cents.  I am a BC metster currently doing pretty well (over 4 years out from mets dx and completely asymptomatic and now on Taxol/Avastin, which is working).

    I have been seeing a alternative/complementary doctor for almost 4 years and he just -- like 3 weeks ago -- UPPED my vitamin D from 2000 per day to 4000 per day!!!  He is a trained oncologist who worked at New York Hospital and Sloan-Kettering but thought more could be done in addition to mainstream medicine.  He is always supporting his directives to me with sound research, and I trust him.  I had been in remission/NED for almost three years and I was on the 2000 mg's all that time.  So, if you want to consider me a one woman trial.... I would say that my conclusion is that Vitamin D does not worsen breast cancer.  Of course, I am going to email my doc to see if he thinks this Marshall bioessay has any validity.  I will report back!

    Robin

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • saluki
    saluki Member Posts: 2,287
    edited February 2008

    Robin

    This lab rat upped her D3 six months ago from 3000mg to 4800mg.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Categories