Search results for 'vitamind or cholecalciferol or ergocalciferol'

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Vitamin D: Is the Need and Evidence for Supplementation Being Ignored?

... Vitamin D, the so-called sunshine vitamin, is in fact not really a vitamin but a hormone which the body can make using sunlight. Historically [1], vitamin-D deficiency was associated with the childhood disease of rickets characterized by severe growth retardation and the bending or bowing of the legs ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/D_vitamin.htm 02/19/05, 69223 bytes

Vitamin D

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH NEWS VITAMIN D Summaries of the latest research concerning vitamin D By Hans R. Larsen MSc ChE Vitamin D is a hugely important fat-soluble vitamin. Our main source is sunlight. It is estimated that at least 75 per cent of our supply comes from photochemical conversion of 7-dehydrocholesterol ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/vitamin_D_abstracts.htm 08/07/07, 67716 bytes

Vitamin D and the Cancer Connection

... research into vitamin D VITAMIN D AND THE CANCER CONNECTION by Hans R. Larsen, MSc ChE A team of Dutch and Swiss researchers recently reported that vitamin-D deficiency is widespread in Europe. They found that 36 per cent of elderly men and 47 per cent of elderly women suffer from a lack of vitamin ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/rvitamin_D.htm 03/27/04, 14471 bytes

International Health News Letter to the Editor – October 2000

LETTER TO THE EDITOR – OCTOBER 2000 In a recent article you described the treatment of muscle myopathies with large doses of vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol). What is vitamin-D2 and would 50,000 units all at once not be toxic? AMC, Canada Editor: Ergocalciferol also known as vitamin-D2 is produced by ultraviolet ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/l106b.htm 03/02/04, 3468 bytes

Support for an increased vitamin D intake

Support for an increased vitamin D intake TORONTO, CANADA. The current RDA (Recommended Dietary Allowance) for vitamin-D is 400 IU/day (10 micrograms/day). Researchers at the University of Toronto now provide convincing evidence that this RDA is far too low. They point out that a blood serum level ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a112g.htm 03/02/04, 4579 bytes

International Health News Letter to the Editor – June 2002

... and how many IUs are in 10 micrograms? All the supplements in the health food store list the potency of vitamin D in IU. WP, USA Editor: Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) is the naturally derived form of vitamin D. Vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) is synthetic and is far more toxic than vitamin D3. I would not ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/l126c.htm 03/02/04, 3110 bytes

Vitamin D deficiency implicated in severe muscle disease

... conditions ranging from diabetic neuropathy to osteoporosis. Detailed clinical investigations showed that all five patients suffered from a severe vitamin-D deficiency accompanied by elevated parathyroid hormone concentrations. The patients were treated with 50,000 IU of oral ergocalciferol (vitamin ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a102j.htm 03/02/04, 4279 bytes

Supplementary vitamin D may prevent fractures

... School of Public Health has analyzed the findings so far. They used rigid rules to select 14 reliable studies of oral vitamin D supplement (using cholecalciferol [vitamin D3]) against placebo on hip and non-vertebral fractures in people over 60 years of age. In total, this included 9,294 participants ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a160f.htm 10/10/05, 4810 bytes

Vitamin D and calcium lower blood pressure

Vitamin D and calcium lower blood pressure BAD PYRMONT, GERMANY. Calcium and vitamin-D deficiencies are common both in Europe and the United States and so is hypertension (high blood pressure). Researchers at the Institute of Clinical Osteology Gustav Pommer have just released the results of a study ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a114m.htm 03/02/04, 4136 bytes

Vitamin D helps prevent multiple sclerosis

... in the summer months. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health now report that MS may be associated with a vitamin D deficiency and that vitamin-D supplementation may help prevent it. The researchers followed a large group of 92,253 female nurses from 1980 to 2000 and another large group of ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a146e.htm 09/06/04, 5399 bytes