Cancer on a diet and vitamin D3 P 2/2
Regardless of the cause, metabolic or genetic mutations, the key point is that cancer cells are fueled by glucose and don’t appear to use the aerobic (Oxygen) system. Because of…
Cancer on a diet and vitamin D3 P 1/2
As we learn more and more about cancer the better we can fight it. Amazingly, with cancer, we suffer from memory loss. You see, in the 1930’s #Dr. Otto Warburg…
Alzheimer’s Disease and Vitamin D3 P 2/2
The previous blog posting I wrote about one theory as to why we develop Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and in this blog I will discuss another potential cause, infectious agents and…
Alzheimer’s Disease and vitamin D3 P 1/2
In 2015, there were approximately 29.8 million people worldwide with Alzheimer’s disease (AD).1,2 AD is poorly understood and causes 60-70 percent of the cases of dementia3, which is a progressive…
Pseudo-Study for a pseudo-vitamin? The pseudo-scientist article P 3/3
So now that you know my opinion on the two (references 1&2 below) articles that #Tim Spector uses as the proof for his attack on vitamin D in his articles…
Pseudo-Study for a pseudo-vitamin? The pseudo-scientist article P 2/3
In addition to the blood levels of vitamin D2 and 3, another criticism for the heart study, is that it was done in Scandinavia where a large percentage of people…
Pseudo-Study for a pseudo-vitamin? #British Journal of Medicine article P 1/3
These next three blog posts concern the latest in attacks on vitamin D3 supplementation and ignores the benefits of better sleep, metabolism and immune system with the optimal dose of…
Serotonin-Vitamin D3-The Gut microbiota
The epidemic of suicides, mental health disease, and drug overdose as well as chronic fatigue were a group of issues that I had considered individually until today. Perhaps the reason…
Magnesium 2 of 2
Magnesium dosing, as I wrote in the last blog post, is important. How so? Well, magnesium is released from cells to stabilize them; to calm nerve cells, and to calm…
Magnesium 1 of 2
Magnesium is one of my favorite minerals and is also one of our most important. Magnesium is involved in almost as many if not as many cellular processes as vitamin…
Other vitamins and minerals
Why do we need to take other vitamins and minerals when we are at optimal dose with Vitamin D3? Vitamin D3 at optimal dose supercharges your metabolism. Optimal dose “tells”…
Sleep
You were probably wondering when I would address something that directly affects you. If you are like most people, you haven’t slept well in years, and maybe decades. If you…
Metabolism
So far, we have covered some of the basics of vitamin D3 and one of the three primary areas it affects us is sleep. Another effect is on metabolism. As…
Vitamin D3 and Sperm Count
Topical media speaks about the recent findings of male sperm counts dropping in westernized countries to half of what they were a decade ago. The implication is the reduced fertility…
Madison-HannaH effects
What is the Madison-HannaH Effect? It is the name I have given to all the processes that the body activates once there is an optimal blood level of vitamin D3….
Vitamin D3 toxicity
In a previous post I explained how vitamin D3 is a hormone. However, it is grouped with other substances called fat-soluble vitamins and this has caused many people to avoid…
Influenza and Vitamin D3
Influenza, the flu, is a seasonal viral disease. Its seasonal nature has been inaccurately attributed primarily to: 1) People are in closer contact in the winter because they are inside…
The Winter Syndrome
I define the Winter Syndrome as: The diseases caused by the inadequate and prolonged deficiency of vitamin D3 that most of us are or were experiencing. Vitamin D3 acts in…
Vitamin D3: The Basics
Most people know vitamin D as the vitamin food producers put in our milk that is important for bone health. Why? Its primary function is to maintain blood calcium levels…
Welcome to The Optimal Dose blog
Today is the first blog post in the new series The Two-minute Health Fact*, discussing vitamin D3, a substance that is critical to our health but missing in many of…