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...
What is the New York Times Writing About?
What is the New York Times Writing About? On April 10th, 2017 the New York Times picked up the press release from the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, and printed a story...
What Have You Learned from GrassrootsHealth?
June 22, 2016 D*action and Protect our Children NOW! are cohort studies and while cohort studies may be lower on the pyramid than RCTs – they are a valid and important part of the...
MS Treatment Protocol May Put Patients in Remission
March 2, 2016 Vitamin D is great for prevention of disease, but what about treatment after you’ve been diagnosed? We will study and report on leading-edge treatments using vitamin D as we find them....
The Importance of Regular Testing
February 24, 2016 The number one question I receive continues to be, “How much should I take?” The answer to that question also continues to be, “There is no magic amount. You have to...
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...
HYLION: A New Translational Research Paradigm
February 10, 2016 We are proud to announce HYLIONTM: a set of tools developed with your help and input over the past several years designed to facilitate moving research into practice… NOW! It’s a...
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....
Vitamin D controversy in the news
January 14, 2016 A paper was recently published that launched an attack on vitamin D. The paper, by lead researcher Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari, MD, Dr PH, studied whether vitamin D would prevent functional decline...
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...