By Linda on Oct 1, 2010 in Food | comments(0)
Full article: http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Nutrition/Vitamins/vitamin_d_deficiency_is_why_you_get_flu_0703100554.html
Excerpt:
A new study led by researchers at the University of Copenhagen has confirmed that vitamin D plays an important role in activating immune defenses against infectious diseases like flu.
Vitamin D deficiency has already been linked to a wide spectrum of diseases including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, depression, autoimmune disease and many others.
The study published in the latest edition of Nature Immunology discovers that activation of T-cells to fight infections needs definite help from vitamin D.
Carsten Geisler and colleagues, study authors, explained the role vitamin D plays in the immune responses as follows.
First when the naive T cell recognizes foreign invaders like bacteria or viruses with T cell receptor (TCR), it sends activating signals (1) to the vitamin D receptor gene. The VDR gene then starts producing DVR protein, which binds vitamin D in the T cell (3) and becomes activated. Then the vitamin D bound and activated DVR gets into the cell nucleus and activates the gene for PLC-gamma1 (5), which in turn produces PLC-gamma1 protein (6) and “the T cells can get started”.
By Linda on Mar 26, 2010 in Food | comments(0)
There can be no question but Vitamin D is major factor that must be addressed whenever children are failing to thrive! Do not fail to read Dr Cannell’s comments about this case report at the bottom.
This is not just about autism, it applies to us all. How much D do we need to get our Vitamin D levels in ideal range? Note: Those doctors who are not informed are doing irreparable damage to children every day! This should become malpractice to ignore the possible need for Vitamin D supplementation, not just in Autism but a host of chronic diseases, as Eric Madrid MD explains in his important book “Vitamin D Prescription”, please get it now!
I quote from Dr Cannell’s comments here:
“ your pediatrician knows little about Vitamin D other than what committees tell him; your decision to ignore his advice probably saved your son’s brain from further injury”
Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com
From: John Cannell, M.D.
The Vitamin D Newsletter
January 30, 2010.
Dear Dr. Cannell:
At age 2.5 years, between December 2007 and January 2008, my son experienced a fairly dramatic onset of symptoms that led to his diagnosis of autism. His symptoms (many of which we did not even know the terminology for at the time they first occurred) included:
–The inability to sleep at night, we would put him to bed at 8:00 or 8:30 p.m. following his normal bedtime routine Continued
By Linda on Feb 20, 2010 in Interesting Stories | comments(0)
The growth of the computer generation and changing lifestyles among children are leading to a Vitamin D deficiency and a rise in cases of rickets, medical experts have warned
Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7043698/Rickets-makes-comeback-among-computer-generation.html
Excerpt:
They said modern diets often lack Vitamin D and this could be a big reason – along with changing lifestyles – for the increasing health problems, in particular rickets in children. Continued
