Archive for the ‘Vitamin D’ Category

Do you have optimal vitamin D levels? Dr. Joseph Mercola says that the health benefits of vitamin D include prevention of cancer, which is shown to be a man-made disease in a study of ancient mummies and prehistoric fossils. Published in the Daily Mail, a Nature Reviews Cancer study found that tumors were extremely rare [...]

Is Dr. Joseph Mercola the only one emphasizing the benefits of vitamin D for heart health? Probably not. A recent study has linked low vitamin D levels with reduced survival rates in patients with heart failure. Conducted at the University Medical Center in Groningen, Netherlands, the study suggests that low vitamin D levels are associated [...]

This Yuletide season, give the gift of the sun’s beneficial UVA and UVB rays – plus red and blue lights – with Dr. Mercola’s Standup Tanning Systems. Natural health expert Dr. Joseph Mercola expresses concern over most commercial tanning beds today, but believes that a safe tanning bed can be useful in getting UVA and [...]

Do you know that simple light rays found in a safe tanning bed are beneficial for your health? Discover more about this without getting into complex physics! Here’s the first of a three-part series. Ultraviolet or UV light is divided into three bands or wavelength ranges: UVA, UVB, and UVC. UVA rays help you produce [...]

Vitamin D may be instrumental in activating your defenses and warding off infectious diseases, scientists recently discovered. In a Reuters report, a group of Danish researchers found that vitamin D is vital in activating the immune system’s T cells or “killer” cells. If you are vitamin D deficient, your T cells remain dormant and unaware [...]