Featured Topics: Vitamins
Many Benefits Go Along with Vitamin D – Informed Opinion
Written by Patrick B. Massey, MD, PhD. A recent large study indicates that vitamin D deficiency is directly associated with hypertension, coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy, and type II diabetes. There is a lot of research going on with vitamin D. Vitamin D use...
Experts Remain Split on Safety, Benefits of Vitamins – Informed Opinion
Written by Dr. Patrick Massey, M.D., Ph.D. Studies that are based on self-reported data are notoriously unreliable, and since there are no controls, the results are far from conclusive. Do vitamins increase the risk of death? According to one recent medical study,...
Vitamin D Related to Reduced Mortality
Written by Jessica Patella, ND. Increasing blood levels of vitamin D would reduce the mortality rate in the United States by 13.3% in males and 15.3% in females, resulting in an increased life expectancy of 2 years. Research on vitamin D has skyrocketed in the past 10...
Research on Vitamin Benefits Continues – Informed Opinion
Written by Dr. Patrick Massey, PhD, MD. At this point in time, the potential benefits of taking vitamins seem to outweigh any of the risks. Do vitamins actually decrease the risk of illness? This is a question that has been asked for decades. On one end of the...
Study Suggests Multivitamin Supplementation Could Significantly Benefit the Elderly
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. A new study has shown that the elderly, even with adequate food intake, can still suffer from vitamin deficiencies. Aging comes with many challenges that include both physical, with hip fractures from falls costing our healthcare...
How Medications Can Lead to Vitamin Deficiency – Informed Opinion
Written by Dr. Patrick Massey, MD, PhD. Medications have numerous interactions within the body and some of these interactions can lead to serious nutrition deficiencies. Vitamins are essential to good health and disease prevention. Vitamin insufficiencies can increase...
Increased US Vitamin D Recommendations – Informed Opinion
By Neil Levin, CCN, DANLA. Researchers have estimated that the additional benefits of Vitamin D (normal muscle health, immunity, inflammation, and reproduction and cellular health) occur when people take 1,000-2,000 IU daily. Scientific toxicity reviews show safety up...
Vitamin C May Reduce Complications After Heart Surgery – Informed Opinion
Written by Dr. Patrick Massey, PhD, MD. According to a recent study, vitamin C may reduce the incidence of atrial fibrillation, a common complication of heart surgery, by as much as 20 percent. A recent medical study discovered that intravenous vitamin C can reduce...
Vitamin D Invaluable to Good Health – Informed Opinion
Written by Dr. Patrick B. Massey, MD, PhD. A recent medical study found that those with low serum levels of vitamin D are at greater risk of severe illnesses than those with robust vitamin D levels. Ten years ago, few knew about vitamin D. It was a mystery and had...
Study Finds Calcium and Vitamin D Helps Weight Loss
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. In a study of 922 overweight patients those with the highest calcium intake lost 20% more weight than those with the lowest calcium intake after 6 months. It is currently estimated that more than two-thirds of US adults are...
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