Does research support the use of vitamin C for improving cold symptoms?
Vitamin C has been well known for decades as an important immune boosting nutrient that can help fight the flu and the common cold. One of the major roles of vitamin C is as...
What information is important on supplement labels to ensure you get the nutrients you expect?
Following yesterday’s post about the prevalence of inadequate intake of several of the top immune-important nutrients, we wanted to provide information to help you become aware of some common mistakes people make when taking...
Nutrient Deficiencies are a Major Health Concern!
Those who follow GrassrootsHealth should be well aware that Up to 75% of the world’s population is vitamin D deficient; 35% or more of all healthcare costs could be saved if the population achieved...
Are probiotics important for vitamin D levels?
The relationship between probiotics and the gut microbiome, and vitamin D Key Points Studies have shown a link between the amount of beneficial bacteria in the gut and vitamin D supplementation/UVB exposure; other studies...
Nutrients Have an Integral Role in Immune Function
One of the primary reasons for the current issue with the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic is that so many people do not have a healthy enough immune response to protect them when they get exposed...
Types of Fatty Fish Consumed by GrassrootsHealth Participants
As we saw in an earlier post, 64% of GrassrootsHealth participants consume at least one meal with fatty fish per week on average. Today, we’ll look at what types of fatty fish are consumed...
Fatty Fish Intake by Location Among GrassrootsHealth Participants
In 2017, GrassrootsHealth added questions about dietary omega-3 intake to its questionnaire to collect the typical number of meals containing fatty fish, such as salmon, sardines, and tuna, or plant-based omega-3s per week. Today,...
Vitamin D2 Levels Among GrassrootsHealth Participants
Both vitamin D3 and vitamin D2 contribute to an individual’s total vitamin D level . There are several differences between vitamin D2 and vitamin D3. Vitamin D3, which is more effective at...
Vitamin D Status Improved with Magnesium Supplementation
By now it should be clear to our followers that each nutrient does not work alone; instead, nutrients function in collaboration with other nutrients in a co-nutrient relationship. If one co-nutrient is limited, either...
The Loading Dose Vitamin D*Calculator
Key Points The updated GrassrootsHealth Vitamin D*calculator calculates a customized loading dose to help an individual reach their chosen target vitamin D level more rapidly (based on body weight and starting vitamin D level)...