Vitamin D supplements come in a variety of types including liquid-filled capsules, power-filled capsules, pills, and drops or sprays. In an earlier post we showed the percent of participants using each vitamin D supplement...
Vitamin D supplements come in a variety of types including liquid-filled capsules, powder-filled capsules, pills, and drops or sprays. On the GrassrootsHealth health and lifestyle questionnaire, questions about which vitamin D supplements participants used...
On the GrassrootsHealth health and lifestyle questionnaire, participants were asked about any extra-large vitamin D doses in the prior 2 months starting in 2017. Participants may take these extra-large doses that replace or are...
On the GrassrootsHealth health and lifestyle questionnaire, questions about which vitamin D supplements participants used were added in 2017. Of the participants who have answered these questions, 86% report taking at least one vitamin...
Some of you may have noticed that your vitamin D blood spot cards from GrassrootsHealth now have a place to enter the time of blood collection. Why is this information important? Earlier this year...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but here at GrassrootsHealth Nutrient Research Institute we prefer to take the opportunity each October to focus on breast cancer prevention. To help educate the public on the...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but here at GrassrootsHealth Nutrient Research Institute we prefer to take the opportunity each October to focus on breast cancer prevention. To help educate the public on the...
There are two main pathways in which vitamin D impacts health after it enters the body from UV exposure or diet. First, vitamin D can be delivered to the liver where it is converted...
In this blog series we are taking a look at the characteristics of the over 13,000 GrassrootsHealth participants worldwide. In earlier posts we showed the demographics, BMI and physical activity, and smoking and alcohol...
For our final post of the series on Cold and Flu Season is Approaching, we will be focusing on what else, besides vitamin D, might help decrease the risk of getting a cold or...