Vitamin D and Pain
June 29, 2016 When new people start the project, the very first thing they report is ‘ohmygoodness–I have considerably less pain’, or ‘this is the first time in years that my pain has gone...
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...
We Can’t Wait!
June 9, 2016 …. the March of Dimes needs us to implement what is known about vitamin D while they continue to research the various biological causes of preterm births! Their work is certainly...
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...
D*action Sponsorships
April 27, 2016 Our recent paper, Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations ≥40 ng/ml Are Associated with >65% Lower Cancer Risk: Pooled Analysis of Randomized Trial and Prospective Cohort Study, published April 6 in PLOS ONE,...
Know your D level
April 13, 2016 Last week, we presented the results of a study that we did with a combination of YOUR data and data from the randomized trial published in 2007 by Drs Lappe and...
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...
Here’s to the end of MS!
March 30, 2016 In December 2011, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society convened a two-day meeting of 40 MS experts from around the world. They were neurologists, epidemiologists, clinical trial specialists, laboratorians like me, molecular...
A Personal Study on Vitamin D and MS
March 23, 2016 Barbara van Amerongen and I met at a Vitamin D Workshop in Brugge, Belgium in 2012. She was very interested in what GrassrootsHealth was doing with a non-clinical trial research approach...
What Does the Equator have to do with MS?
March 16, 2016 The amount of material the major multiple sclerosis organizations have on vitamin D, latitude and MS is colossal. MS organizations are funding research, but it may not adequately represent vitamin D’s...