How Dermatologists Fuel Chronic Disease Rates With Their Flawed Sun Exposure Guidelines

By Dr. Mercola

In July 2014, the interim U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Boris Lushniak, who is also a dermatologist, issued a "Call to Action to Prevent Skin Cancer,"1,2 in which he declared UV radiation harmful and said sun exposure should be avoided altogether.

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What You Need to Know About Testosterone Testing and Testosterone Replacement Therapy

By Dr. Mercola

Testosterone is on many men's mind these days; undoubtedly due in large part to TV ads promising more pep in your step and improved sex life.

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7 Signs You May Have a Vitamin D Deficiency

By Dr. Mercola
Vitamin D deficiency is incredibly common in the US, but many Americans mistakenly believe they aren’t at risk because they consume vitamin-D-fortified foods (such as milk).

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The Who, Why, and When of Vitamin D Screening

By Dr. Mercola

A robust and rapidly growing body of research clearly shows that vitamin D isabsolutely essential for good health and disease prevention, in part due to the fact that it influences about 10 percent of all your genes.

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Physical Activity Is Tied to Strong Bones

By Dr. Mercola
Your bones are constantly being rebuilt in a dynamic process involving the removal of old bone through osteoclasts and regeneration of new, healthy bone by osteoblasts.

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Vitamin D for Cancer

Exposure to sun at Buluh Beach, Sedili Kecil

Fighting cancer is a tough battle, no matter where it occurs in the body. The disease itself--as well as just about every form of treatment for it--can take a heavy physical toll. But patients strive hard to do what it takes to eliminate the malignancy so they can hopefully live for many years afterward as a survivor. To that end, it appears that new research has found a safe and natural way to increase the odds of beating cancer…by increasing our intake of vitamin D.

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7 Signs You May Have a Vitamin D Deficiency

By Dr. Mercola

Vitamin D deficiency is incredibly common in the US, but many Americans mistakenly believe they aren’t at risk because they consume vitamin-D-fortified foods (such as milk).

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Vitamin D

Vitamin D—One of the Simplest Solutions to Wide-Ranging Health Problems
By Dr. Mercola

Vitamin D deficiency is a pandemic in the United States, but many Americans, including physicians, are not aware that they may be lacking this important nutrient. Despite its name, vitamin D is not a regular vitamin. It's actually a steroid hormone that you get primarily from either sun exposure or supplementation, and its ability to influence genetic expression that produces many of its wide-ranging health benefits. >

Sun exposure, free source of vitamin D

This Vitamin Might Ease Menstrual Cramps

By Dr. Mercola

At least half of reproductive-age women suffer from painful menstrual cramps that begin shortly before the start of menstrual flow and continue for several days.

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="346"] http://ramblingsofastressedoutmom.blogspot.com/2011/11/fall-pictures.html[/caption]For some the pain is a mild annoyance, but for others it can be so severe that it interferes with daily activities.

Severe menstrual cramps are actually among the most common reasons for missed work and school days among young women.

For treatment, many women rely on over-the-counter NSAIDs like ibuprofen for pain relief, and conventional physicians may even prescribe birth control pills, which prevent ovulation and reduce the severity of cramps.

Both of these "solutions" carry significant risks of side effects while doing nothing to treat the underlying reasons why menstrual cramps occur.

Now researchers have uncovered another option that might ease menstrual cramp pain naturally via the "sunshine vitamin," or vitamin D. >

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Why Vitamin D Is Better than ANY Vaccine and Improves Your Immune System by 3-5 Times

By Dr. Mercola

In the video above, Dr. Joe Prendergast, one of a growing number of experts who are recognizing the phenomenal health importance of vitamins, shares why, in many ways, vitamin D is more powerful than any vaccine you could take.

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This Vitamin D Supplement Mistake Raises Your Death Rate by 2% -- Are You at Risk?

By Dr. Mercola

Drisdol is the synthetic form of vitamin D2; the form of vitamin D typically prescribed by doctors. But this is not the type produced by your body in response to sun or safe tanning bed exposure. A recent meta-analysis by the Cochrane Database looked at mortality rates for people who supplemented their diets with D2 versus those who did so with D3, the form naturally produced by your body. >

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