Too Many Miss this Vital Step in their Vitamin D Routine
How do you know your best dose of vitamin D if you don’t follow each of these steps? The knowledge surrounding vitamin D and its many health benefits has increased over the last several...
GrassrootsHealth Publication on Breast Cancer Achieves Top 10%
Our paper on breast cancer and vitamin D has been named as one of the top 10% most cited PLOS ONE papers published in 2018! Exciting news!! Our paper, titled Breast cancer risk markedly...
Happy BIRTHDAY Week to Everyone, Share the Abundant Gifts that You Have Helped Create
Today is Carole’s birthday! She wants to share her presents with you. It’s GrassrootsHealth’s founder Carole Baggerly’s BIRTHDAY! June 14th is a very special day in honoring everyone’s work to Move Research into Practice...
The Health Benefits and Risks from Moderate Sun Exposure
Special guest post by William B. Grant, PhD, a recognized “World Expert” in the top 0.1% of scholars writing about Sunlight over the past 10 years The evidence supporting the role of moderate sun...
Do You Need to Take Vitamin K2 with Vitamin D?
Video Friday: Dr. John Campbell reviews the scientific evidence to determine if supplementing with vitamin K2 with vitamin D is absolutely necessary Key Points Vitamin K2 (called menaquinones) is mostly bacterial in origin, and...
The BIG Mistake by the IOM
Video Friday: The math and science used to determine recommended vitamin D serum levels and supplementation amounts, and where the IOM got it wrong It’s Video Friday! Today’s video titled What Serum Level Should...
Can Vitamin D be Considered a Therapeutic Agent for COVID-19?
Video Friday: Vitamin D and COVID 19: The Evidence for Prevention and Treatment of Coronavirus (SARS CoV 2) It’s Video Friday! Today’s video is a bit longer than what we have previously shared, but...
Vitamin D and Calcium are Not Necessary for Bone Health in Older Adults – Is this True?
What to consider when headlines claim no benefit for vitamin D in bone health, falls and fractures Whenever a study comes out that questions the known benefits of vitamin D the press reports it...
What’s the Big Deal with the Questionnaire?
Insight on how GrassrootsHealth collects data, why we collect the data we do, how it is used to help you with your health decisions and to move research into practice Becoming a participant of...
Nutrient Reference Range vs Optimal Range
What’s the best nutrient level for health? Lab test results often come with a set of numbers next to the result called a “reference range.” What does this mean, and does it represent the...