Harness the Sun: Duration
May 25, 2016 Sunshine is important for your health, but before you get sun rays you need to assess your current situation. We want to get sunshine and all its beneficial aspects, but we...
Harness the Sun: UV Strength
May 18, 2016 The ultraviolet index or UV index is a measurement of the strength of the sun’s ultraviolet rays. It is 0 in the dark of night and 10-11 in the middle of...
Harness the Sun: skin type and overall health
May 11, 2016 Harness the Power of the Sun for Health! Do you know why we chose the word ‘harness’? The definition of harness is to bring under conditions for effective use, to gain...
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...
Heart Health – Diabetes is a Major Risk Factor
February 17, 2016 As highlighted in our newsletter at the beginning of the month, February is American Heart Month. One of the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease is diabetes – a disease known...
February is Heart Health Month
February 3, 2016 February is American Heart Month. Cardiovascular disease (CVD), which includes heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure, is responsible for one out of every three (about 800,000) deaths in the United...
RCTs are not designed for public health
January 27, 2016 How do we get information to make decisions about public health from randomized controlled trials (RCT’s)? Can we? Especially for nutrient trials? At this point, we have seen so many problems...
Dosing Intervals Matter
January 20, 2016 In this newsletter, we present yet another set of vitamin D information from a different research point of view – enzymology. I had the pleasure this last week to talk with Dr....
Does vitamin D protect your brain?
January 6, 2016 Dementia encompasses a broad category of brain diseases that cause long term and gradual decline of brain function, usually starting with memory loss and increasing to loss of bodily functions. Alzheimer’s...
Your Nutrient Profile
December 30, 2015 While vitamin D is important, it is not the only nutrient or strategy that we use to improve our health and prevent disease. GrassrootsHealth is in the process of expanding our...