As I was discussing at the end of the last blog post defects in the vitamin D receptor (VDR), machinery that modifies the active form of vitamin D3 so it can activate the VDR and vitamin D3 deficiency can result Read more…
At the time I did that I had not put my understanding of cancer all together yet. Well, cancer cells or at least many I have found so far significantly increase for one the production of the 24-hydroxylase enzyme produced Read more…
To digress, as I mentioned in the first blog post of this series the reason, I have not blogged about vitamin D3 and its direct role in destroying/preventing cancer, is because it was not clear to me how vitamin D3 Read more…
Taking skin cells as an example in skin cells-keratinocytes-all three main forms of vitamin D3 activate the HPA axis and the peripheral cellular process where this occurs to produce pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC). 1 To summarize the three main forms of vitamin Read more…
Sunscreens as I previously blogged about are not only poisoning both us as well as our environment but affect the p53, one of our main ways to fight cancer. Particularly skin cancers. Less sun by whatever means, results in less Read more…