Immunity & Supplements
Our immune system is one of the master systems of the body: it helps protect us from illness and injury or to help us recover quickly from illness or injury. Much of our immunity is predetermined, but stress and YOUR lifestyle habits can seriously enhance or compromise how effective it is.
The immune system may, at times be helped by taking supplements. They are useful for a variety of reasons: complementing certain diets, achieving nutrient requirements in extreme circumstances and generally maintaining good nutrition. Another reason, that is more important than ever, is aiding 'high risk' individuals who need extra protection from illness. If you are in good health, young and eat a good balanced diet then you may not require supplements. However, Public Health England has recommended that we should all consider taking Vitamin D during the winter months and even through the spring/summer months if social distancing restrictions mean we are spending less time outdoors in sunlight.
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NEW RELEASE- june 2021
People with lower blood levels of vitamin D are at higher risk of various serious illnesses, including several types of cancer. But that doesn’t mean that raising blood levels by taking vitamin D supplements would necessarily reduce cancer risk. Harvard researchers set out in 2011 to test this strategy with a randomized trial of vitamin D supplementation (2,000 IU per day) involving 25,871 people; the results were published online Nov. 2, 2020, by JAMA Network Open. The participants were ages 50 or older, were free of cancer at the start of the study, and were followed carefully for an average of 5.3 years. The rate of metastatic or fatal cancers was 17% lower in those who took the vitamin D supplement. However, the benefit was restricted to people who were not overweight or obese. In healthy-weight people, the risk fell by 38%; in contrast, among those who were overweight or obese, there was no reduction in risk. What do the results of this large and careful study tell us about what we should do? For healthy-weight people at risk for developing cancer (because of lifestyle or a family history of cancer), it would be reasonable to take daily vitamin D supplements starting at about age 50.
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