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 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...
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....
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...
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...
December 10, 2015 Using data from our D*action project, we have created D*calculator. With this calculator you can enter your current vitamin D serum level, your desired vitamin D serum level, and your weight....
October 21, 2015 For most societies, food is not the primary source of vitamin D. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommends 600 IU/day of vitamin D for anyone 1-70 years old and 800...
October 14, 2015 At a seminar in Toronto in 2009, we had a panel of Drs Whiting, Heaney, Vieth and others addressing the question “What do we DO about it worldwide?” To solve the...
September 16, 2015 We started GrassrootsHealth in 2007 by traveling the world and talking to vitamin D researchers. As you all know these researchers banded together to recommend everyone get their serum levels between...
September 2, 2015 There has been a lot written about the decrease in the incidence of colds and flu (see our own chart below) and, the evidence is strong for prevention. But, what happens...