Fight cancer with vitamin D

Put the brakes on cancer

When it comes to fighting cancer naturally, we’ve offered up a ton of options over the years.

From grape seed extract to saffron to a buffet table stacked with cancer-fighting holiday foods the archive at www.nutritionandhealing.com is chock full of a variety of natural cancer fighters. So it figures that a major “new” cancer-fighting discovery would turn out to be an old favorite of ours, wouldn’t it?

Of course, I’m talking about vitamin D.

A team of Canadian researchers has just found that the vitamin may block the growth of cancer cells and slow down the progress of cancer from pre-malignant to malignant.

This is big news because it finally explains–on a molecular level–just how it is that vitamin D has been so successful at fighting cancer, including breast cancer, colon cancer, and pancreatic cancer. It’s the kind of pure scientific proof that mainstreamers…so fond of saying that vitamins are a useless waste of money…are going to find impossible to ignore.

Basically, vitamin D targets a protein that cancer depends upon for cell division. This protein, called cMYC, is active at elevated levels in more than half of all types of cancer. Vitamin D slows it down, while at the same time boosting the production of substances that can outright shut it down. As one of the researchers said, vitamin D “puts the brakes on cMYC function” and therefore puts the brakes on the spread of cancer.

Now you’ve probably gotten used to me saying “more research is needed” at this point in my letters. Well, not this time. In this case the researchers are so sure of their findings that they said they hope their research will “encourage people to maintain adequate vitamin D supplementation.”

Dr. Wright recommends soaking up the sun and working with a physician skilled in natural medicine to find your body’s optimal level of vitamin D. A general daily dose for adults is 4,000 IU, which can be achieved by spending 20 minutes in the sun with your face and arms exposed.

If you can’t get enough from the sun (especially now that it’s December and sunny days are few and far between), cod liver oil is a good source of D. It packs in 1,200 to 1,500 IU per tablespoon. Be sure to take extra vitamin E if you supplement with fish oils, to help keep them from oxidizing too rapidly in your body.

P.S. The evidence that vitamin D is a powerful weapon in the fight against cancer continues to mount, but you should never go into battle with just one weapon, right? You need a full arsenal when it comes to fighting the big “C.” The experts at our affiliate publisher, Health Sciences Institute, have uncovered 12 amazing cancer-crushing breakthroughs. The full dozen are just a click away. Learn more here.

Sources:
“Vitamin D may slow pre-cancer growths, find researchers,” Nutraingredients USA (www.nutraingredients-usa.com)