Ms. Muscles Fitness Blog: Prevent Hypertension With Vitamin D

Prevent Hypertension With Vitamin D

Vitamin D is a valuable vitamin, with incredible health effects to be obtained through it's supplementation. It is actually a steroid hormone precursor and we can not live without it. Vitamin D helps to boost our immune system, strengthens bones and teeth, helps prevent several types of cancer, and promotes healthy levels of testosterone and other healthy hormones within our bodies.

Now, a new, long-term study gives proof that Vitamin D can help reduce the incidence of hypertension in adults.

"This study differs from others because we are looking over the course of 15 years, a longer follow-up than many studies," Flojaune C. Griffin, M.P.H., co-investigator of the study and a doctoral candidate in epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, was quoted as saying. "Our results indicate that early vitamin D deficiency may increase the long-term risk of high blood pressure in women at mid-life."

The recommended daily allowance of 400 to 600 IU is under intense scrutiny with myriad of health professionals excusing it to recommend 1,000 to 5,000 IU's daily. As a matter of fact, Canada has already risen their recommendation.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, suggested in the March 2007 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that taking 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily along with 10 to 15 minutes in the sun and a healthy diet could reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer by two-thirds. The same authors found that breast cancer rates were 50 per cent lower in people with high levels of vitamin D in their blood, and suggested that the average person could maintain those levels by taking 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily and spending 10 to 15 minutes in the sun.

More information is available at Dr. Mercola and check out this informative video.