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The Vitamin That Could Add Years to Your Life

If there were an Olympics for antiaging nutrients, vitamin D would have a good shot at the gold medal.

Here's why: Scientists recently examined how blood levels of vitamin D affect aging on a cellular level. High intake was associated with as much as 5 fewer years of chromosome aging!

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pmmechanic

2 of 3 people found this helpful.

5/10/2008 6:13:34 AM

I have copd and have found that spraying a squirt of proxide up each nostral clears my sinus. It helps better than any other medicine I have tried. I have not had to be hospitalised now for 4 years I am 71

Squids

8 of 10 people found this helpful.

5/9/2008 10:30:04 AM

Cheap and effective nasal rinse for allergies.
Get 60cc. Syringe,Mix half teespoon salt with quarter teespoon baking soda mix with warm water in tall glass. Fill syringe and flush twice a day ,Magic!

[Edited by Squids on 5/9/2008 10:33:16 AM]

MJJacobs

23 of 23 people found this helpful.

5/9/2008 7:00:51 AM

Add K2 to your D supplements or else you will deposit calcium in your arteries! D DOES help us use our calcium and deposit it into bones, but vitamin K is also necessary and is the nutrient most aligned with correct deposition. D and K work together! See: www.vitamindcouncil.com for good info on D and read "Vitamin K: Beyond Coagulation to Uses in Bone, Vascular, and Anti-Cancer Metabolism" by Lara Pizzorno and Joseph Pizzorno in Integrative Medicine, Apr/May 2008. Or google them.
And consider upping all you fat soluble nutrients via supplements. Take them with fat containing foods, too. We need more fat! We are not fat because we eat fat!

YorkieMom

12 of 12 people found this helpful.

5/8/2008 10:20:23 PM

My Diabetes specialist, Dr. Joseph Prendergast in Palo Alto starts all him new patients on 50,000 units of D3 for a month. I had SO much energy after only a few days! He now likes folks to maintain around 5,000 units of D3 [not D2], as it is not toxic, and it REALLY aids in keeping up the energy levels. No one looking at my face [or the restof me] believes i have 60+ years under my belt. Vitamin D3 works!

charen

15 of 16 people found this helpful.

5/7/2008 1:58:52 PM

I still drink skim milk, work part time, feel great most of the time, at 74 years young.

OldDog

13 of 16 people found this helpful.

5/7/2008 1:19:35 PM

Vitamin D is extremely important. People should be aware that skin pigmentation has a lot to do with the absorption of Vitamin D from the sun. If you look at breast cancer rates in the north compared to the south it is higher, especially among African Americans, how else might a lack of Vitamin D effect darker skin people is worth looking into. They should increase their intake of D supplements and probably need more than lighter skin people.

archemy

17 of 17 people found this helpful.

5/6/2008 8:16:27 PM

I agree with ctqwn's doctor.... the latest thinking is to get between 2000 and 4000 iu for both men and women. and checking a blood level is a good idea.
You want D3 Cholecalciferol Vit D 25, OH not D2

Nedi

20 of 24 people found this helpful.

5/6/2008 8:52:29 AM

For vitamin D and weight loss, I've been eating cereal with milk or an energy bar with vitamin D every morning and losing weight too:)

ctqwn

17 of 21 people found this helpful.

5/5/2008 10:00:36 PM

My hormone Dr. tells her patients in WA state to take 3000-4000 IU vitamin D per day in the colder months when we have less skin exposure to the sun. In the summer, she advises 1000-2000 IU per day. She says the reason we don't generally get the flu during the summer is because we get more sun exposure then, and that boosts our immune system.

I've been following her advice for about a year, and even though I work w/ kids every day, I don't catch their colds or other bugs.

100down100...

13 of 14 people found this helpful.

5/5/2008 9:45:08 PM

Get your levels checked, especially if you live in the north, where Vitamin D deficiency is rampant, especially in the winter, and is way under-diagnosed. My levels were low and, wow, do I feel better on prescription doses of D, adjusted by my endocrinologist based on my levels.

SteveS678

8 of 12 people found this helpful.

5/5/2008 8:14:15 PM

Being a vegetarian, I eschew meat and fish and all of their byproducts (such as milk and eggs). I get my D from a multivitamin and I spend a while in the sun. In my area though, which is Long Island, NY, the sun may not reach me, so Itae a multi vitamin to ensure my needs are met.

Susie1

0 of 2 people found this helpful.

5/5/2008 7:44:13 PM

Help--I posed a question regarding Vit. A--article here stated one amt.as daily maximum--my reg. vitamin stated much higher amount and said it was only 70% od RDA..who is right? No one is answering my question

PEANUTS13

2 of 7 people found this helpful.

5/5/2008 6:59:19 PM

I DRINK MILK DAILY, HAVE 3 EGGS PER WEEK AND FISH ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK, PLUS TWO MULTIPLE VITAMINS PER DAY...........DO I STILL NEED MORE VITAMIN D?

barbells

32 of 33 people found this helpful.

5/5/2008 1:47:29 PM

I started taking Vitamin D3 about five months ago
because I heard Dr. Oz say on the Ophra show that if
you were thinking of taking vitamins, that Vitamin D3
was the most benefical vitamin that you could take. I
noticed about a month later that I was starting to have hair growth especially on an area where I was going thin. Not only was I growing hair..there were coming in dark.. I am 63 years old and if I didn't color my hair..I would be totally white. I can only contribute the new hair growth to the the Delta D3 vitamins that I started taking. I have told many people my story and even my dentist found it interesting.

Thanks

barbells

Anonymous

41 of 47 people found this helpful.

5/5/2008 12:15:29 PM

Vitamin D is important, but yet this article is extremely misleading. All the research on the benefits of vitamin D point out the value of Vitamin D3, and there is huge difference in how your body benefits from Vitamin D3 rather than D. I think its flippant and irresponsible, to talk about Vitamin D and not be specific about D3, which your body produces naturally from the sun, and which is naturally occurring in most unprocessed and natural foods. To say that milk fortified with an synthetic form of Vitamin D is beneficial, when what we should be talking about here is D3, tells a lot about the casual and likely misleading articles that this site might publish. My question is, who wrote this, was it a doctor or some intern who copy and pastes ad hoc "new age organic" information from the web to drive a traffic for realage add space.
I must admit that I do enjoy this newsletter and it does give some good tips, but you can't talk about health food in this newsflash headline style it just leads to more dis-information. And this could not be more true than in this vitamin D newsflash. It's vitamin D3 that we should be talking about here.

moonshine

32 of 34 people found this helpful.

5/5/2008 10:49:11 AM

Carry a handful (not a bag full) of almonds to keep you going during the day.
It stops me wanting candy and all that bad suff.
Also 1-2 squares of very dark chocolate a few times a week after dinner.Thanks Stay Healthy Moonshine,FountainHills A.Z.