Vitamin D and Prostate Cancer
Did you know that one out of every seven men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime? This is much too high. Since it is prostate cancer awareness month, we wanted to take the...
Effectiveness of vitamin D based on YOUR GrassrootsHealth data
The Natural Marketing Institute (NMI) recently released its 2019 Consumer Trends Report which is a comprehensive analysis of the dietary supplement market from the consumer perspective. The report identified four important market trends for...
Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer – Can omega-3’s help prevent it?
Non-melanoma skin cancers have been linked to solar ultraviolet radiation exposure (UVR), which can lead to a decreased immune response in the skin cells called photoimmunosuppression. A healthy immune response is necessary for cancer...
Dr. Sears Family Podcast with Carole Baggerly, our Director, on Vitamin D
Last week (on July 2, 2019), our very own Carole Baggerly, founder and director of GrassrootsHealth, joined pediatricians Drs. Jim and William Sears and health coach Haden Sears to discuss the head-to-toe importance of...
Time for sensible sun exposure!
The sun is essential to optimal health and well-being. Sensible sun exposure could greatly improve health by improving vitamin D status for disease reduction, initiating the release of nitric oxide for heart health, stimulating...
Decrease Your Risk of Breast Cancer with Omega-3s
A meta-analysis of 21 studies on omega-3s and risk of breast cancer by Zheng et al. concludes that higher consumption of omega-3s corresponds with a lower risk of breast cancer. The chart below is...
Lower Type 1 Diabetes and Cancer Rates Associated with Higher UVB
Drs. Cedric Garland and Sharif Mohr, along with others on their research team, have published numerous ecological studies on the association between UVB irradiance and the incidence of type 1 diabetes and many different...
Lower colorectal cancer risk with increased sun exposure
According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States in both men and women. Both inadequate sun...
How to Prevent Breast Cancer – A Practical Guide
Written by Cedric F. Garland, Dr. P.H. F.A.C.E. University of California at San Diego Medical Center Note: References, e.g. (1), are located below. Although it afflicts 232,000 American women each year and kills 40,000...
Lower Risk of Colorectal Cancer Progression with Vitamin D – the SUNSHINE Trial
Results from the SUNSHINE trial, a randomized clinical trial testing whether vitamin D supplementation improves outcomes in advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer patients, was published last week (April 9, 2019) in JAMA. In this...