Published on February 25, 2021
Video Friday: What is the cost of ignoring the importance of vitamin D and other nutrients for our health and disease PREVENTION?
It’s Video Friday! In this video, GrassrootsHealth’s Founder and Director, Carole Baggerly, presents to Chris Göthel and the audience at the Academy of Human Medicine in Germany about the importance of vitamin D for many aspects of health, as well as the steps necessary and importance of taking action to implement the research into practice. This particular segment focuses on the cost savings and additional benefits of implementing vitamin D into practice for disease prevention.
Please take a moment to watch and share the video along with our detailed information below.
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The Cost of Money, Time, and Stress can be Saved with Nutrient Action for Disease PREVENTION
Here is a quick summary of what this video discusses, along with additional information and details:
- The incidence rate of breast cancer has barely ‘budged’ over the last couple of decades, as the number of women (and to a lesser extent men) being diagnosed has stayed the same. This is not the case for treatment; the number of lives saved has increased due to improvements (such as new targeted drugs, hormone therapy, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation). There has been close to zero effort and research implementation put into prevention, where our energies would serve the most good. This is despite the fact that we know vitamin D could make a huge difference!
- The table below shows the disease burden (incidence and cost) for breast cancer, Type 1 Diabetes, preterm births, and atrial fibrillation, followed by the benefit (or the number of individuals spared the disease and the resulting cost savings) that could be achieved by implementing nutrient testing, education, and supplementation programs to help with prevention.
- The following charts show 71% reduction in Breast Cancer incidence with a vitamin D level of at least 40 ng/ml (100 nmol/L),
- and an 82% reduction with a vitamin D level of at least 60 ng/ml (150 nmol/L)!
- GrassrootsHealth’s Protect Our Children NOW! Project was implemented in September 2015 at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). This initiated a new standard of care for pregnant women that included routine vitamin D testing and supplementation to reduce preterm birth. Results from year one were published in PLOS One in 2017. This project supported previous clinical trial and field study findings that vitamin D levels at or above 40 ng/ml are associated with a 50% lower risk of preterm birth!
- It is important to remember that with vitamin D, serum level is key, NOT the dose.
- Among women of child-bearing age in the US, only 2% of black women have a level at 40 ng/ml or higher, and only 10% overall have a level of 40 ng/ml or higher.
- Remember: sun exposure has health benefits when you don’t burn
- Vitamin D also reduces risk and severity of COVID, with costs and benefits such as the ones illustrated below.
What Could Vitamin D Do for You?
Everyone needs vitamin D! Below is a guide for how much you might need, and who may need more. Your levels can be tested safely at home – order your home test kit today.
By joining the GrassrootsHealth projects, you are not only contributing valuable information to our study, but you are also gaining knowledge about how you could improve your own health through measuring and tracking your nutrient status, and educating yourself on how to improve it. Do you know what your status of vitamin D, omega-3s, and other essential nutrients is? Could your levels be improved? Test now to find out!
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What does the Research Say about Vitamin D & COVID-19?
It’s TIME to start saving lives! If you can help PREVENT the majority of the death, it’s time! What’s it costing you/us not to take action NOW?
There is much published research that supports a clear link between vitamin D and COVID-19 showing that higher vitamin D levels are related to:
a decreased risk of testing positive for COVID-19
increased viral SARS-CoV-2 RNA clearance
better clinical outcomes among patients with COVID-19
decreased risk of death due to COVID-19
Be sure to educate yourself on the benefits and importance of vitamin D for immune health, and take steps to ensure you and your loved ones are getting enough.
You can review all of the COVID-19 and immune health information we have shared on this page.