The document provides an overview of vitamin D, including its dietary sources, role in bone and overall health, and prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in New Zealand. Key points include:
- Vitamin D status is best determined by measuring 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in the blood.
- Many New Zealanders, despite a sunny climate, have suboptimal vitamin D levels year-round due to indoor lifestyles.
- Maintaining adequate vitamin D levels may help reduce the risk of osteoporosis, influenza, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other conditions.
Review by Louis B. Cady, MD (Cady Wellness Institute) of need for vitamin and mineral supplements, current evidence for loss of minerals and nutrients in soils. Reasonable strategies for identifying supplement needs. Understand how declining nutrients, inadequate intake of recommended servings of fruits and vegetables all contribute to chronic health conditions.
Review by Louis B. Cady, MD (Cady Wellness Institute) of need for vitamin and mineral supplements, current evidence for loss of minerals and nutrients in soils. Reasonable strategies for identifying supplement needs. Understand how declining nutrients, inadequate intake of recommended servings of fruits and vegetables all contribute to chronic health conditions.
Endocrine Disruption of the Neuro-immune InterfaceDES Daughter
by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Building on the January 8, 2014 teleconference featuring Dr. Rodney Dietert on how the developing immune system is a target for endocrine disrupting chemicals, Dr. Jamie DeWitt discussed how certain cells of the immune system may mediate endocrine signals to direct aspects of brain development. She also described scenarios where endocrine disrupting chemicals can alter brain development by changing signals to the immune cells that can mediate development of sex specificity in the brain.
Sources: http://www.healthandenvironment.org/partnership_calls/13590
Endocrine Disruption and Immune DysfunctionDES Daughter
by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment
On this first in a series of calls on endocrine disrupting chemicals, Dr. Rodney Dietert discussed how the immune system is a target for endocrine disrupting chemicals, particularly during development. Numerous relatively ‘hidden’ effects can ensue from a single risk factor and emerge over a lifetime. He also discussed how current safety testing fails to appropriately assess misregulated inflammation as the greatest immune based health risk.
Sources: http://www.healthandenvironment.org/partnership_calls/13389
Endocrine Disruption of the Neuro-immune InterfaceDES Daughter
by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Building on the January 8, 2014 teleconference featuring Dr. Rodney Dietert on how the developing immune system is a target for endocrine disrupting chemicals, Dr. Jamie DeWitt discussed how certain cells of the immune system may mediate endocrine signals to direct aspects of brain development. She also described scenarios where endocrine disrupting chemicals can alter brain development by changing signals to the immune cells that can mediate development of sex specificity in the brain.
Sources: http://www.healthandenvironment.org/partnership_calls/13590
Endocrine Disruption and Immune DysfunctionDES Daughter
by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment
On this first in a series of calls on endocrine disrupting chemicals, Dr. Rodney Dietert discussed how the immune system is a target for endocrine disrupting chemicals, particularly during development. Numerous relatively ‘hidden’ effects can ensue from a single risk factor and emerge over a lifetime. He also discussed how current safety testing fails to appropriately assess misregulated inflammation as the greatest immune based health risk.
Sources: http://www.healthandenvironment.org/partnership_calls/13389
50 Digital Marketing Metrics for CMOs, CDOs, CIOs and CFOsVala Afshar
These 50 metrics are must haves for any CMOs, CDOs, CIOs and CFOs. They help to illustrate why marketing is important and how marketing will help your organization.
Vitamin D deficiency is widespread in both the pediatric and adult chronic kidney disease CKD population. CKD is characterized by dysregulation of vitamin D and mineral metabolism. Secondary hyperparathyroidism and its management puts patients with CKD at increased cardiovascular risk. Emergence of experimental and some clinical data suggesting beneficial effects of vitamin D on proteinuria, blood pressure, inflammation and cardiovascular outcomes has pushed it to the center stage of CKD research. Pediatric data on vitamin D dysregulation and its consequences are still in its infancy. Ongoing prospective studies such as Chronic Kidney disease in Children CKiD and the Cardiovascular Comorbidity in Children with CKD 4 C should help to delineate the evolution of disturbances in mineral metabolism and its adverse effects on growth, CKD progression and cardiovascular outcomes. Dr. Prafull Dawale | Neha Jain "Vitamin D in Chronic Kidney Disease" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd26778.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/other/26778/vitamin-d-in-chronic-kidney-disease/dr-prafull-dawale
The global epidemic and the d lightful vitaminRISHIKESAN K V
Roughly 1 billion people globally having low vitamin D levels. Scientists believe that lack of vitamin D is not only linked with rickets and osteomalacia but it plays a major role in heart disease ,Diabetes and cancers
4. In Australia but not New Zealand, all table margarines are fortified with vitamin D,
5. A blood calcidiol (25-hydroxy-vitamin D) level is the accepted way to determine vitamin D nutritional status, and shows considerable variation. Primates Humans Canadians 1000 IU 4000 IU in sun in winter supplement supplement 140 130 40 70 100 Old-World Primates Humans with UV Canadian Winter Canadian + 25 ug/d Canadian + 100 ug/ d 0 40 80 120 160 Serum 25(OH)D nmol/L
7. According to Dietitian’s NZ clinical handbook 2010 25OH-vitamin D <25nmol/L 25-50nmol/L 50-150nmol/L <250nmol/L Moderate-severe deficiency Mild deficiency Optimal target for bone health Intoxication reported 1,25OH-vitamin D 65-175pmol/L Interpretation is specific to clinical context
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9. New Zealand has one of the highest incidences of skin cancer in the world. Vitamin D is not a problem here. Or is it??
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11. Bolland MJ, Grey AB, Ames RW et al., (2007) The effects of seasonal variation of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and fat mass on a diagnosis of vitamin D sufficiency. Am J Clin Nutr 86:959–964
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14. John Cannell and Bruce Hollis, Alternative Medicine Review Volume 13, Number 1 March 2008
38. Vitamin D sources, metabolites, and mechanisms of action with respect to carcinogenesis. VDR: vitamin D receptor. VDRE: vitamin D response element. RXR: retinoid X receptor