Published on December 24, 2024
Happy Holidays to You!
GrassrootsHealth would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Whether spending time with family, friends, or in solitude this holiday, we hope your homes and your hearts are filled with love, peace, health, and happiness. As you embrace special moments with your loved ones or take pause from the business of the day, let the moments you create nourish you fully – physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
Let your season be a blessed one, filled with love and cheer and more.
Smile, laugh, and enjoy the fun.*
(The picture on the right shows GrassrootsHealth team members Susie Baxter and Jen Aliano with their children at the Seaside Christmas Tree in Encinitas, CA.)
A Special Holiday Message from Dr. Cedric Garland
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
A big thank you to all our D*action participants. Your participation in this GrassrootsHealth study with testing of your vitamin D level will help change the history of cancer. The dream of a successful moonshot against cancer will be possible due to you.
The VITAL Study showed a statistically significant 25 percent reduction in cancer death in people of normal weight who were randomly assigned to daily intake of a modest amount of vitamin D and calcium. The GrassrootsHealth study is very likely to show a larger reduction in such deaths, as the levels of vitamin D in the blood are substantially higher than in the already promising VITAL cohort. GrassrootsHealth research could potentially lead to near elimination of breast cancer as a cause of death. So, your continuing role in stopping death in its tracks from breast and other cancers will be historic in the best way.
Bravo to you!
Dr. Cedric Garland
Principal Investigator, GrassrootsHealth
Holiday cheers and many thanks to you — our participants, scientists, followers, and supporters.
Warm wishes to all of you for a very happy, bright, and healthy holiday!
The GrassrootsHealth Team
* From a poem Christmas Wishes for You written by Sherry Asbury
How Can You Use this Information for YOUR Health?
Having and maintaining healthy vitamin D and other nutrient levels can help improve your health now and for your future. Measuring is the only way to make sure you are getting enough!
STEP 1 Order your at-home blood spot test kit to measure vitamin D and other nutrients of concern to you, such as omega-3s, magnesium, essential and toxic elements (zinc, copper, selenium, lead, cadmium, mercury); include hsCRP as a marker of inflammation or HbA1c for blood sugar health
STEP 2 Answer the online questionnaire as part of the GrassrootsHealth study
STEP 3 Using our educational materials and tools (such as our dose calculators), assess your results to determine if you are in your desired target range or if actions should be taken to get there
STEP 4 After 3-6 months of implementing your changes, re-test to see if you have achieved your target level(s)
