Posted on 05/12/2011 10:41:03 AM PDT by dangerdoc
If I have this right then men with significantly higher than average vitamin D levels had significantly higher overall cancer rates. Vitamin D levels were seasonally determined.
Perhaps the men with significantly higher vitamin D levels reached those levels with significant seasonal exposure to sunlight.
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I read this the opposite- that higher Vitamin D is better for you
The significance is that this is the first study I have seen that looks at Vitamin D levels before cancer is diagnosed. I don’t think they are arguing that Vitamin D causes cancer rather that the study does not confirm a protection hinted at in earlier studies.
Measuring vitamin D levels in people already diagnosed with cancer in not a good way to determine causation and suffers potential confounding and bias.
Men who had higher vitamin D levels had a significantly higher rate of cancer when followed over time in this study.
I can't speak for others, from my understanding everyone absorbs D differently. If you have an auto immune diseases your body soaks up D. But, I've been taking anywhere from 2000IU a day up to 15,000 a day for 8-9 years and my D level has only been up to around 90 one time. Every other time they've checked it it's been around 50 or so. So it's very hard to get to much D unless your along the sun belt. You just want to make sure you don't get to much, but, don't let some doc scare you into thinking if you take 2000 a day you'll get to much. Most people need around 4000 a day. 30 minutes or so in the sun(the farther north you are, the less you get) will give you around 10,000.
Use sunscreen for the beach or the pool, but they take it to ridiculous levels these day. I thought my son’s preschool was going to call social services because we told them he didn’t need it to go outside for recess. He is the only kid in the class without sunscreen. Sorry, but 20 minutes outside fully clothed isn’t going to hurt him.
Greater than 80 nmol/L is not higher but much higher, no? I believe the current goal is 50 nmol/L.
It might also matter that the levels were measured seasonally with the northern latitude measurements being in the time of year with the longest days.
No deficency is lack of vitamin D
Did you have to sign a release?
The mom’s club has reached consensus........ sunscreen saves lives.
I have an autioimmine diease and the Doctor has me on prescription vitamin D most of the time because my levels are too low.When she first measured my levles were in the siungle digits.It is impossoble to get too much vitamin D because the body will flush the overage.They want to keep my levels over 50 which is a normal level but it’s hard to keep it there.This week I started back on the script at 10,000iu 5 days in a row and then once a week after that trying to get it back to 50 or over.
"However, men with 25(OH)D levels >80 nmol/L had a significantly higher cancer mortality rate than those with levels <50 nmol/L."
According to my doctor it is impossible to get that much from the sun further north than Atlanta except for about 2 weeks in the middle of July from the sun.It has to do with the angle of the sun and is why most people in the north are vitmain D deficient.
That is terrible that they insist this for the kids. I am deficent and my doctor told me unless I was going to be i the sun for more than an hour to skip the sunscreen.
80 is a near impossible level to get to.One would have to be taking more than 10,000iu a day for weeks to even get to that level. The normal level is 50 but most people who live in the north and are over 40yo most likely hover at about 35 most of the year.
I reread that and I am still right a level 25 is too low that is not a high level of vitamin D and is in the deficient level.50 is considered normal.
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