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...
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...
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...
It typically takes 17-30 years for research to become practice. Why? Because a hospital would have to create this initiative from scratch – create a plan; cull the research; design software; define the data...
An explanation of why daily dosing is important - for immune function, and why some studies show negative results with vitamin D.
What were ancestral levels of vitamin D? Should we aim for those same levels today? They were 46 ng/ml and higher in pregnant women!
GrassrootsHealth research on the food sources for vitamin D. Conclusion is that it is very hard to get enough vitamin D from food.
Learn how to eat natural, vitamin D rich foods from this D*action participant and her story. Her key is to eat real, home-grown foods.
Find information to help refute news articles that say that Americans are taking too much vitamin D. Statements are backed by research, not hyperbole.
A study was done at 6 VA centers - the number of vitamin D tests and % deficiency were important factors in reducing healthcare costs.