The Summer of 1974
Or… How I Found My Life’s Mission By Cedric Garland, Dr. P.H., F.A.C.E. In the summer of 1974, my brother Frank and I found ourselves in a steaming hot lecture room at Johns Hopkins...
Vitamin D Hacking Using Science
Why is vitamin D important? GrassroosHealth summarized many different research papers into one chart in order to explain why vitamin D levels are critical to disease prevention: What? How do I read this? GrassrootsHealth...
What do Randomized Controlled Trials Say about Vitamin D and Cancer?
In the beginning In early 2000, researchers from the Osteoporosis Research Center at Creighton University, Omaha, NE, decided there was enough observational research on calcium and vitamin D and cancer – but no randomized...
Is Your Vitamin D Serum Level the Best Indicator of Your Cancer Risk?
GrassrootsHealth is in the business of moving research into practice. After reading all the research on vitamin D and cancer, even if some of the papers received bad reviews, we conclude that yes –...
Positive and Negative Effects of Sun Exposure
Review of Research Paper Sunlight: For Better or For Worse? A Review of Positive and Negative Effects of Sun Exposure Han van der Rhee et al. Cancer Research Frontiers May 2016 Read Paper Researchers...
Eradicate Breast Cancer
October 27, 2016 Age-adjusted breast cancer incidence rates have tripled in the USA since the mid-1930’s. Some of this increase may be due to detecting more cases by mammographic screening, but some is probably...
Vitamin D and Risk of Breast Cancer
October 12, 2016 At GrassrootsHealth, we consider October breast cancer PREVENTION month. What are you doing to prevent breast cancer – for yourself, your family, your friends, your community? How can we address PREVENTION?...
No Significant Change to Breast Cancer Incidence in 30 Years
October 5, 2016 Throughout this month we will present findings on vitamin D and breast cancer. Many of them show a substantially reduced risk when you move from a low level of vitamin D...
Lower risk of cancer with vitamin D
April 6, 2016 Today, April 6, 2016, is the release of a truly definitive paper about vitamin D and cancer. In 2007, I read a paper by Lappe et al. and, cried. It was...
The Importance of Regular Testing
February 24, 2016 The number one question I receive continues to be, “How much should I take?” The answer to that question also continues to be, “There is no magic amount. You have to...