More to Health than Vitamin D
In working with participants from around the world, tracking their health and their vitamin D intake and levels, we have been able to report several positive health outcomes and benefits of having a vitamin...
Effectiveness of vitamin D based on YOUR GrassrootsHealth data
The Natural Marketing Institute (NMI) recently released its 2019 Consumer Trends Report which is a comprehensive analysis of the dietary supplement market from the consumer perspective. The report identified four important market trends for...
Increased Breast Cancer Survival with Higher Vitamin D Levels
Many studies have found that women with higher vitamin D levels have a lower risk of developing breast cancer. But what about women who already have breast cancer? Could vitamin D help them? In...
Dr. Sears Family Podcast with Carole Baggerly, our Director, on Vitamin D
Last week (on July 2, 2019), our very own Carole Baggerly, founder and director of GrassrootsHealth, joined pediatricians Drs. Jim and William Sears and health coach Haden Sears to discuss the head-to-toe importance of...
Decrease Your Risk of Breast Cancer with Omega-3s
A meta-analysis of 21 studies on omega-3s and risk of breast cancer by Zheng et al. concludes that higher consumption of omega-3s corresponds with a lower risk of breast cancer. The chart below is...
Lower Type 1 Diabetes and Cancer Rates Associated with Higher UVB
Drs. Cedric Garland and Sharif Mohr, along with others on their research team, have published numerous ecological studies on the association between UVB irradiance and the incidence of type 1 diabetes and many different...
How to Prevent Breast Cancer – A Practical Guide
Written by Cedric F. Garland, Dr. P.H. F.A.C.E. University of California at San Diego Medical Center Note: References, e.g. (1), are located below. Although it afflicts 232,000 American women each year and kills 40,000...
Postpone Chronic Disease
Given that we have longer lifespans, how can we live healthy until we die? Between 1900 and 2000 the average US lifespan has increased from 47 to 77 years. What if you wished for...
80% Reduction of Breast Cancer Risk Using Vitamin D
There are many studies that have shown the connection between breast cancer and vitamin D, starting with the epiphany of the Garland Brothers when they first drove across the country in 1974, and then...
Vitamin D Can Turn Your Health Around
Vitamin D has helped me to walk, to sleep, to get off medication Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Zuleika Jamal. I am a 63-year-old woman living in the Metro DC...