October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but here at GrassrootsHealth Nutrient Research Institute we prefer to take the opportunity each October to focus on breast cancer prevention. To help educate the public on the...
For our final post of the series on Cold and Flu Season is Approaching, we will be focusing on what else, besides vitamin D, might help decrease the risk of getting a cold or...
When it comes to how vitamin D supplementation affects vitamin D serum levels, it is important to recognize the wide range of serum level responses that can be produced at any specific supplementation amount....
Our “Cold and Flu Season is Approaching” series began with an introduction to the correlations seen between cold and flu season and seasonal changes in vitamin D levels, and was followed by a post...
In our last post about cold and flu season approaching, we reviewed similarities between months with the highest flu activity and vitamin D levels in a general population, as well as the risk reduction...
As we saw in an earlier post of this series, GrassrootsHealth participants reside in 55 countries worldwide with over 1,000 residing in Canada (the country with the largest number of participants after the United...
One of the questions we have received from our D*action participants is “Are vitamin D sprays as effective as other forms taken by mouth, such as pills and capsules?” This is a concern especially...
Did you know that one out of every seven men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime? This is much too high. Since it is prostate cancer awareness month, we wanted to take the...
As we saw in the first of this series, GrassrootsHealth participants reside in 55 countries worldwide. Today, we’ll look at how vitamin D levels vary by location. Vitamin D levels by country for GrassrootsHealth...
Key Points The GrassrootsHealth scientists’ consensus recommended range of vitamin D for general health is 40-60 ng/ml (100-150 nmol/L), based on overwhelming evidence about the association between vitamin D and many diseases; there is...