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Could Vitamin D Help With Colds?

10/28/2012

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Once again the headline of a study is somewhat misleading.  A new study on vitamin D and colds came out.  This study showed vitamin D was little to no help with colds and the headline read, "Vitamin D No Help For Colds, Study Suggests".  This is a nice headline, but what did this study prove and disprove?  Did it really show that Vitamin D is no help for colds?

There are several things in this study that I looked at.  First the participants were given monthly shots of 100,000 IU.  This is good because we know that everyone in the study took the vitamin D (compliance can be a problem) that was supposed to.  This also means that the people who got the shots only got about 3,334 IU's per day which sounds like a lot less than 100,ooo IU.  The second thing I saw was that the vitamin D raised their blood levels from 29 ng/ml (nano-grams per milliliter ) to 48 ng/ml over the course of the study.  The study started in the spring (when vitamin D levels would be at their lowest) and ended in the fall (when vitamin D levels would naturally be higher).  All of these observations are important and we now have to ask ourselves some questions.  What were the blood levels in the winter when most people get sick? What if someone started with lower levels of vitamin D?  Would it have helped them to take more? What if 48 ng/ml is not high enough to get the immune enhancing effects of vitamin D? 

We know from other studies on bone health and cancer that you want your blood levels to be between 70 ng/ml and 80 ng/ml.  Would this level of vitamin D help our immune systems?
What this study does show us is that raising your blood levels of vitamin D from about 30 ng/ml to about 50 ng/ml does little to help our immune system stop colds from happening.  This, however, is a long way from proving that Vitamin D does not help with frequency of colds at any level.  It also does not disprove that bringing up levels of vitamin D in someone who is very deficient would be helpful in lessening the frequency of colds.


You can see the whole article @: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/vitamin-d-colds-upper-respiratory-tract-infection_n_1932922.html

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Amazing fruit drink!

10/26/2012

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I used my blender to make this great fruit drink!  Blending is great because you get all the fiber from the whole fruit and the nutrients from the peel.  I think it is better than just juicing and it can taste great too.  Both of my kids loved this drink and my niece did too! This drink is great for you.  It has ellagic acid from the pomegranate and quercetin from the apples, both of which can turn off and on genes. It also has lutein from the kale which is great for your eyes.  I used about one fourth of a pomegranate, a whole apple, half a banana, 1 tsp of coconut oil, orange juice and kale. I then blended it in a 3.5 horse blender for about one and a half minutes.   This blends up all the pomegranate seeds so the drink is fairly smooth.

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October 11th, 2012

10/11/2012

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Many people I talk to have problems sleeping so I thought I would tell what my wife and I do.  The two things that are probably the safest and have the least side effects for sleeping are L-tryptophan and Rhodiola Rosea.  We take 500 mg of Tryptophan and more than 300mg of Rhodiola about 15 minutes before bed and this helps us sleep.  We also use classical music with stringed instruments some nights. We seem to get a deeper sleep and wake up feeling better in the morning.  If you want to eat your Tryptophan you can eat a lot of turkey before bed and then take some Rhodiola.  I hope you enjoy my health tip for the day.

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Balancing Mens Hormones Through Food.

10/8/2012

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Aspartic acid is great for older men because it helps make luteinizing hormone which can raise testostrone.  Many men, as they age, have lower levels of testostrone, but a study in 2009 showed that Aspartic acid raises both Luteinizing hormone and testostrone (Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 2009 Oct 27;7:120.).  This is great because we can get Aspartic acid through our diet and help our bodies works properly.  An easy and inexpensive way to get Aspartic acid is by eating 2 to 4 eggs a day.  This would give you about 1500mg to 3000mg of Aspartic acid a day.  In the study I talked about above they took Aspartic acid for 12 days and got positive results so I would try eating eggs everyday for two weeks and see if this helps you.  This is just one more reason to eat eggs everyday.  I do and the more I learn about eggs the more I think they are a great food. 

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    Marshall has been studying health and reading clinical studies for 15 year.  He has been consulting with people for over 10 years.

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