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Preventing Autoimmune Diseases: New Findings on Vitamin D, Omega-3 Supplements

In a recent comprehensive analysis, researchers have revisited the outcomes of the VITAL trial, a randomised study initially focused on the effects of vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acid (n-3 FA) supplementation on incident cancer and cardiovascular disease. This investigation, spearheaded by Karen H. Costenbader, MD, MPH, from Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, and her team, delved into the extended impacts of these supplements on autoimmune disease risk. The VITAL trial had included...

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Vitamin D & C – Again!

It occurred, after listening to various (UK and International) politicians trying to explain behaviour that the rest of the country (and most of the world) understands is bereft of justification, that the energy spent in defending the indefensible, could instead be applied to promoting vitamin D3. Early in the 2019 Sars-Cov-2 discovery period, vitamin D3 was highlighted by many researchers as having the capacity to improve and enhance immunity, especially regarding anti-viral activities. Over the...

Immune Health Coronavirus Diets Vitamin D

Division and Distrust

The year ahead is of course simply a continuation of the prior year, nothing magical occurs on the 1st day of January that creates a clean slate. Our actions, intent and social structure simply roll over, albeit that the Christmas or festive season creates a host of familial challenges, but on a global scale the world marches on. Yet it is in our nature to seek new beginnings, release hope and optimism and search for a better period ahead. Inevitably this will involve hopes that relate to personal...

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Lost In The Noise?

The challenge for everyone either resisting or managing a SARS-CoV-2 related infection appears to centre around the ability to determine the validity of the data sets used, and those that are available. Most people, until the last few months, have had very little personal experience with the use of testing for infectious diseases. Until the last few months in the UK most people were dealing with the adverse consequences of non-infectious diseases, the ones that dominated global health news until...

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The Drift Towards ‘Personal Responsibility’

The current COVID-19 pandemic has numerous actors on a global scale seeking a resolution, in effect a search for the solution to the viral infection that is dominating headlines and many global resources. Leaders in Western countries (and elsewhere) favour vaccination and despite being advised that typical vaccine development and testing can take between 18 months and forever are also suggesting (hoping) that, due to new mechanisms employed in vaccinology, that we will be offered vaccination against...

Immune Health Coronavirus Diets Vitamin D

A Shifting Perspective

Perhaps you have started to envision what life will be like in the coming weeks and months, as countries start to transition away from the ‘lockdown’ status that many, including the UK has undertaken. It may be that looking ahead leaves you cautiously optimistic, anxious and worried, frustrated or relieved when considering all the different elements of your work and home life. Certainly, its somewhat of an unknown project for all of us and with that comes uncertainty. Most people feel unsettled by...

Immune Health Coronavirus Vitamin D

Coronavirus and into Easter

Four or so months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now, the virus has been identified in almost every country, infecting over 1.5 million people whom we know about, and many more whom we do not. Its related effects have crushed economies and broken or severely tested health-care systems, filled hospitals and emptied public spaces. It has separated people from their workplaces, families and their friends. It has disrupted society on a scale that most living people have never witnessed. It...

Immune Health Mental Health Diets Vitamin D

Coronavirus, Self-Isolation and Community

The world and our perception of our everyday lives seems to have changed so much over the past month since, in the UK at least, we have gone from 35 confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 as of the 1st March to today’s (25rd March) official figure of 9,529. Globally the figures are growing as the WHO pushes testing and there are a variety of “dashboards” and reported figures to choose from but all indicate a pandemic that most of us, if any, have no first-hand experience. COVID-19 has created a lot...

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Vitamin D and Supplementation

Since the 1930s, public health ofﬁcials in the United States and the United Kingdom have recommended routine fortiﬁcation of foods like milk to prevent vitamin D deﬁciency and low vitamin D status, and this was trusted to be an effective public health strategy. However, there was an increased incidence of hypercalcaemia suspected to be due to massive intakes of vitamin D from various food fortifications. In some cases, hypercalcaemia was proposed to be associated with drinking vitamin D-fortified...

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Vit D and IBD

A research paper published in the United European Gastroenterology Journal showed that if you are experiencing a period of remission with Cohn’s disease that Vitamin D confers additional benefit in restoring/maintaining appropriate gut permeability.[1] In this small study – some 27 people were involved, all of whom were determined to be in remission at the time of the oral supplementation with either 2000 iu of vitamin D or a placebo for 90 days. They found, that patients treated with the supplementation...

Preventing Autoimmune Diseases: New Findings on Vitamin D, Omega-3 Supplements

Vitamin D & C – Again!

Division and Distrust

Lost In The Noise?

The Drift Towards ‘Personal Responsibility’

A Shifting Perspective

Coronavirus and into Easter

Coronavirus, Self-Isolation and Community

Vitamin D and Supplementation

Vit D and IBD

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