Test Your Children and Teens! Here’s why, with a personal story…
We love what we do at GrassrootsHealth. Our passion about nutrition and vitamin D shows in our work as well as our personal lives. Today, we would like to share a preview to a...
Are Digestive Problems Affecting Your Vitamin D?
For some people, swallowing a daily pill is not an option, nor is it preferred, which can result in low compliance in taking supplements. While vitamin D supplements come in several other forms, such...
What if you don’t take vitamin D supplements?
In our last post, we revisited the topic of vitamin D in our food. For most people, what we eat simply does not provide us with the amount of vitamin D our bodies need....
Can we get enough vitamin D through food?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommends 600 IU/day of vitamin D for anyone 1-70 years old and 800 IU/day for those over 70. However, this recommendation is based on maintaining bone health with...
Risk of Atrial Fibrillation Decreases as Vitamin D Levels Increase
It is heart health month! Last week we listed some important articles about the different roles of vitamin D, magnesium, and omega-3s for heart health, including one about magnesium’s relationship to atrial fibrillation. Atrial...
Nutrients Your Heart Needs
Cardiovascular disease (CVD), which includes heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure, is the number one killer of American women and men, and it is a leading cause of serious illness and disability. Essential...
Vitamin D and Immunity: Tying it All Together
In our previous posts about the immune system, we have touched on a basic overview of the innate and adaptive immune system and the role that vitamin D plays in the body’s initial defense...
Vitamin D: An Orchestrator of Immune Responses
Multiple studies have shown a link between vitamin D deficiency, increased inflammation, and dysregulation of the immune system, demonstrating the necessity of vitamin D in maintaining a healthy and effective immune response. Vitamin D...
Scientists’ Call to D*action TODAY — Your Immune Cells Rely on Vitamin D
Today, we are launching an urgent campaign to everyone, both for individuals and institutions to provide the scientific education, reality behind the need to use vitamin D right now to boost the immune system...
Vitamin D May Improve Oral Health
It has long been understood that vitamin D is good for the skeletal system – our bones and teeth. But, did you know that adequate vitamin D may not only support good oral hygiene...