Vitamin D, sometimes known as the sunshine vitamin, has been the subject of great debate. Perhaps the two most important questions are: how much is too much and what is an “optimal” level? The Vitamin D Council considers vitamin D to be essential for supporting bone health, cancer prevention... [More]

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has issued its 5th annual guide to sunscreen products and only found 20% of products to be ‘safe.’ Over 10% of products were found to be highly dangerous. Though some industry leaders question the EWGs techniques, because they use ‘new’ science, the industry likes the older science because it is less likely to find issues with the safety of their products... [More]

George Bernard Shaw’s famous quote, “Death is the ultimate statistic, one out of one of us dies,” is a great truth, particularly in the study of medicine and science. Nowadays science can measure all manner of variables related to health and disease, but there’s really nothin... [More]

Recently, the IOM made a modest increase in the RDA for vitamin D and doubled the upper limit (UL). Yes, with all the research out there, you would have thought they would have set the levels higher. The committee felt that the media has raised public expectations and physicians have been using... [More]

You may have seen a story in the news recently about the “big” changes in vitamin D recommendations pumped out by the prestigious Institute of Medicine… In summary, they concluded that the majority of people in North America, from age 1 to 70, now “require 600 IU&rsquo... [More]

Thanksgiving, commonly thought of as the beginning of the joyous Holiday Season, also marks the beginning of increased carbohydrate cravings; of increased appetites; of gaining weight; of broken New Year’s resolutions; and of depression and irritability. This is the beginning of the season of ... [More]

The flu season has arrived—make sure your ready! Nutritional support has been shown to interfere with the pathogenic processes of influenza. [More]