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WBR Article

Got Vitamin D?
By Dennis E. Curran
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June 16, 2008 --
MORAN – North Americans need to put more Vitamin D in their systems and reduce their risk for heart attacks, various cancers and a host of other diseases, according to a Creighton University medical researcher.

Robert Heaney, M.D., told Wyoming doctors that a growing body of new research is showing the merits of Vitamin D in reducing risk for a variety of conditions. The Omaha, Neb., doctor was a featured speaker at the Wyoming Medical Society’s annual meeting at Jackson Lake Lodge last week.

“Vitamin D is like an iceberg,” Heaney told the doctors. “We’ve been looking at the part above the surface for 60-80 years now. The part below the surface that we haven’t appreciated … is the role Vitamin D plays in cell cycle regulation and in gene expression.”

Heaney explained that researchers now know that Vitamin D not only can enter the human system through the bloodstream but also can independently enter gene cells, which can use Vitamin D to fight off disease.

The latest research, he said, indicates that people with relatively high levels of Vitamin D in their systems are less at risk for a wide array of diseases and conditions, from cardiovascular problems, to breast, prostate and other cancers, to tuberculosis and other diseases.

Heaney said the average person should have about 4,000 daily international units of Vitamin D. Most people get far less than that – about 2,000 units from the sun, another 150 from food and another 200 from vitamin supplements.

Much of this research has occurred during the past few years, and “pieces of the puzzle began to come together” as the new millennium dawned,” Heaney said. Now “this field is exploding, and it’s almost impossible to keep up with it, even for someone actively working in the field,” he said.

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