Here are the only vitamin supplements that work

Most vitamins don’t have any health benefits. Here are the few that do:

* Women of childbearing age should take folic acid supplements to prevent spina bifida and related birth defects.
* Calcium and vitamin D together can help protect the bones of postmenopausal women.
* Antioxidants and zinc may slow the worsening of the blinding disease called age-related macular degeneration.

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Anonymous
The article stresses that smokers should avoid taking beta-carotene supplements, because the pills can increase their risk of lung cancer. Well, this says it all!!!…The recommendation is to avoid this vitamin supplement but makes no mention of avoiding smoking.
Anonymous
Calcium and vitamin D together can help protect the bones of postmenopausal women.
Didn’t the latest WHI results show otherwise? I mean they had some improvement in the subset of women over 60, but what about those under 60?
Jeffrey Dach MD
Vitamin D, the Vitamin the Works
Maps of UV Sunlight exposure correlate with serum Vitamin D levels, and the farther north, the lower the Vitamin D, and the higher the incidence of Cancer and Multiple Sclerosis in our population.
If you take NASA space satellite photos of North America and color code the UV sunlight exposure as Dr. Grant has done on his Vitamin D Web Site, you will see a pattern remarkably similar to the incidence of cancer and multiple sclerosis. This is thought to be due to differences in Vitamin D levels. The farther north with less sun exposure and lower Vitamin D levels, there is an increased incidence of cancer and multiple sclerosis.
Diseases Caused By, or Associated With Vitamin D Deficiency:
Again here is the list: Osteoporosis, Hypertension, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer, Depression, Epilepsy, Type One Diabetes, Insulin resistance, Autoimmune Diseases, Migraine Headache, PolyCystic Ovary Disease (PCOS), Musculoskeletal and bone pain, Psoriasis.
Vitamin D deficiency has been reported in 57% of 290 medical inpatients in Massachusetts, 93% of 150 patients with overt musculoskeletal pain in Minnesota, 48% of patients with Multiple Sclerosis, 50% of patients with lupus and fibromyalgia, 42% of healthy adolescents, 40% of African American Women, and 62 % of the morbidly obese, 83% of 360 patients with low back pain in Saudi Arabia, 73% of Austrian patients with Ankylosisng Spondylitis, 58% of Japanese girls with Graves’s Disease, 40% of Chinese adolescent girls, 40-70% of all Finnish medical patients.
Surprisingly, we have been seeing low vitamin D levels even here in sunny Florida demonstrated by serum 25-OH Vit D blood testing. These people avoid the sun for fear of skin cancer.
More information on Vitamin D at my newsletter
regards from
Jeffrey Dach MD

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