"Always Learning" <noPublicEmail@this.time> wrote in message
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> If vitamins and minerals [by themselves] cured any disorder or pain
> then doctors would prescribe them.
Haven't you heard of people taking niacin to reduce blood cholesterol? On
doctors' instructions? Vitamin D for osteoporosis? It is pretty easy to
disprove such a blanket denial.
Pain can indeed be treated by supplements, but pain is a symptom of over
1000 disorders, so I'm not going to make specific suggestions. You have to
consider the cause of the pain before you consider treating it. Anyway.....
Instead of cure, how about prevention? The first abstract is written by
Bruce Ames, a pre-eminent expert on mutagenesis. And the second one was one
of over a thousand articles about disease states related to low vitamin D
status....I just picked the first one I saw. I added some emphasis to the
latter.
Mutat Res. 2001 Apr 18;475(1-2):7-20.
DNA damage from micronutrient deficiencies is likely to be a major cause of
cancer.
Ames BN.
University of California, 94720-3202, Berkeley, CA, USA.
bnames@uclink4.berkeley.edu
A deficiency of any of the micronutrients: folic acid, Vitamin B12, Vitamin
B6, niacin, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, iron, or zinc, mimics radiation in
damaging DNA by causing single- and double-strand breaks, oxidative lesions,
or both. For example, the percentage of the US population that has a low
intake (<50% of the RDA) for each of these eight micronutrients ranges from
2 to >20%. A level of folate deficiency causing chromosome breaks was
present in approximately 10% of the US population, and in a much higher
percentage of the poor. Folate deficiency causes extensive incorporation of
uracil into human DNA (4 million/cell), leading to chromosomal breaks. This
mechanism is the likely cause of the increased colon cancer risk associated
with low folate intake. Some evidence, and mechanistic considerations,
suggest that Vitamin B12 (14% US elderly) and B6 (10% of US) deficiencies
also cause high uracil and chromosome breaks. Micronutrient deficiency may
explain, in good part, why the quarter of the population that eats the
fewest fruits and vegetables (five portions a day is advised) has about
double the cancer rate for most types of cancer when compared to the quarter
with the highest intake. For example, 80% of American children and
adolescents and 68% of adults do not eat five portions a day. Common
micronutrient deficiencies are likely to damage DNA by the same mechanism as
radiation and many chemicals, appear to be orders of magnitude more
important, and should be compared for perspective. Remedying micronutrient
deficiencies should lead to a major improvement in health and an increase in
longevity at low cost.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Apr;87(4):1080S-6S.
Vitamin D deficiency: a worldwide problem with health consequences.Holick
MF, Chen TC.
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, 715 Albany
Street, M-1013, Boston, MA 02118, USA. mfholick@bu.edu
Vitamin D deficiency is now recognized as a pandemic. The major cause of
vitamin D deficiency is the lack of appreciation that sun exposure in
moderation is the major source of vitamin D for most humans. Very few foods
naturally contain vitamin D, and foods that are fortified with vitamin D are
often inadequate to satisfy either a child's or an adult's vitamin D
requirement. Vitamin D deficiency causes rickets in children and will
precipitate and exacerbate osteopenia, osteoporosis, and fractures in
adults. ***Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with increased risk of
common cancers, autoimmune diseases, hypertension, and infectious
diseases.*** A circulating level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D of >75 nmol/L, or 30
ng/mL, is required to maximize vitamin D's beneficial effects for health. In
the absence of adequate sun exposure, at least 800-1000 IU vitamin D3/d may
be needed to achieve this in children and adults. Vitamin D2 may be equally
effective for maintaining circulating concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D
when given in physiologic concentrations.
Lar
Ron Peterson
Paul T. Holland
