Vitamin May Play Protective Role Against Common Cancer

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The most simple, safe, and effective way to get the benefits of vit D is to take 5000 IU per day of vit D3. Cheap to buy at almost any drug store.

Nick Padron of TX 3:37PM February 12, 2010

The answer is yes, most tanning beds can provide Vit. D. Vit. D is produced by exposing the skin to Ultraviolet B. Most tanning lamps are made up of about 5% UVB, very similiar to natural sunlight. 10 minutes a day, 3 times a week should give you more than enough.

Greg of MO 1:49PM December 08, 2009

I am headed to my local tanning salon!

joe of IL 10:09AM December 08, 2009

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2290997/ *****
However, excessive UVR exposure accounts for only 0.1% of the total global burden of disease in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), according to the 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) report The Global Burden of Disease Due to Ultraviolet Radiation. DALYs measure how much a person’s expectancy of healthy life is reduced by premature death or disability caused by disease. Coauthor Robyn Lucas, an epidemiologist at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health in Canberra, Australia, explains that many diseases linked to excessive UVR exposure tend to be relatively benign—apart from malignant melanoma—and occur in older age groups, due mainly to the long lag between exposure and manifestation, the requirement of cumulative exposures, or both. Therefore, when measuring by DALYs, these diseases incur a relatively low disease burden despite their high prevalence.
In contrast, the same WHO report noted that a markedly larger annual disease burden of 3.3 billion DALYs worldwide might result from very low levels of UVR exposure. This burden subsumes major disorders of the musculoskeletal system and possibly an increased risk of various autoimmune diseases and life-threatening cancers.

John Haaland of NJ 9:09AM December 08, 2009

I wonder if you can get Vitamin D from a tanning bed? I suppose you so. My wife has one she never uses, maybe I should dust it off and start using it myself.

Jimmy K. of KY 8:59AM December 08, 2009

What this and all the other research shows is that being short of vitamin d is very bad for you.
The people who came out worse in this investigation were close to rickets, they are consuming their bones to supply calcium. My next question is having spotted a severe deficiency why was it not treated. If you had a patient close to scurvy you would give them vitamin C.

Pete 4:25AM December 08, 2009

The controversy regarding optimum levels of vitamin D will be put to rest when the mainstream medicine and the NIH, CDC, FDA etc. take the time to review the already existing facts. There is a mountain of evidence that points to at least 50 ng/ml, year round. Look up the facts at: The Vitamin D Council and Grassroots Health D'action.
If anyone wants to read about the greatest medical mystery of our time simply research vitamin D and its critcal importance to human health. NOTHING has a bigger impact on the human condition! Diabetses, cancer, heart disease, MS, birth defects, infertility, bone disease, depression, obesity, muscle wasting, artery disease, Crohn's, IBD, chronic pain, arthritus, dimentia and even autisim have strong connections to chronic vitamin D deficiency. And in all this turmoil regarding health care and spiraling costs regular vitamin D supplementation will bring the world some much needed relief.
My parents were alive to see the dawn of antibiotics. We will be witness to world wide vitamin D supplementation and the corresponding reduction in chronic illness and killer diseases.

CLS of MD 12:31PM December 07, 2009