Faster Surgical Recovery with Vitamin D
A Participant Story Published January 2018 The Pivotal Moment for Tom I lost my wife to Lymphoma in 2009 after being diagnosed in 1999. We discovered her vitamin D level was 9 ng/ml, while...
Overcoming MS with Vitamin D
First published March 2016 Tell us a little bit about yourself: My name is Ana Claudia, and I’m 47 years old. I’m from Brazil but I have lived in the US for the past...
Milk – Is it enough to maintain a healthy vitamin D level?
Do you often hear that you get ‘enough’ vitamin D from milk? It is a common misconception that continues to be propagated. How much vitamin D is in a glass of milk? One 8-oz...
Video Summary: The Pros and Cons of Vitamin D
William Grant, PhD, presents a 50 minute talk on vitamin D and health. A summary is below. Vitamin D Physiology Grant starts with a definition of terms and general functions associated with vitamin...
Participant Story: Barb Haplea – Vitamin D and Breast Cancer
Barbara Haplea Married 52 years, 3 sons, 4 grandchildren 75 years old Huron, Ohio Interview conducted February 2016 How did you hear about GrassrootsHealth? In August 2009 I found a lump in my breast,...
Controlling Asthma with Daily, High-Dose Vitamin D
A case control study using 100 patients in a private clinic in Pakistan found that vitamin D improved FEV1 measurements for asthmatics within two months, and even more by three months. How the Study...
Reduce Healthcare Costs With Vitamin D Testing
Lower Vitamin D Levels = Increased Health Care Costs After studying two North-East German health cohorts, which included records from over 7,000 patients, researchers concluded that there is “an influence of vitamin D deficiency...
Reduce Your Chance of Getting Sick with Vitamin D
In an analysis of GrassrootsHealth D*action data, participants who have a vitamin D level of at least 40ng/ml (100 nmol/L), cut their risk of cold and flu by 15% and 41% respectively compared to...
Let’s Level the Playing Field with Vitamin D
Racial Disparity There is a branch of the National Institutes of Health, the medical research agency of the United States, called the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) whose charter is...
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...