The Importance of Regular Testing
February 24, 2016 The number one question I receive continues to be, “How much should I take?” The answer to that question also continues to be, “There is no magic amount. You have to...
Heart Health – Diabetes is a Major Risk Factor
February 17, 2016 As highlighted in our newsletter at the beginning of the month, February is American Heart Month. One of the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease is diabetes – a disease known...
HYLION: A New Translational Research Paradigm
February 10, 2016 We are proud to announce HYLIONTM: a set of tools developed with your help and input over the past several years designed to facilitate moving research into practice… NOW! It’s a...
February is Heart Health Month
February 3, 2016 February is American Heart Month. Cardiovascular disease (CVD), which includes heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure, is responsible for one out of every three (about 800,000) deaths in the United...
RCTs are not designed for public health
January 27, 2016 How do we get information to make decisions about public health from randomized controlled trials (RCT’s)? Can we? Especially for nutrient trials? At this point, we have seen so many problems...
Dosing Intervals Matter
January 20, 2016 In this newsletter, we present yet another set of vitamin D information from a different research point of view – enzymology. I had the pleasure this last week to talk with Dr....
Vitamin D controversy in the news
January 14, 2016 A paper was recently published that launched an attack on vitamin D. The paper, by lead researcher Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari, MD, Dr PH, studied whether vitamin D would prevent functional decline...
Does vitamin D protect your brain?
January 6, 2016 Dementia encompasses a broad category of brain diseases that cause long term and gradual decline of brain function, usually starting with memory loss and increasing to loss of bodily functions. Alzheimer’s...
Your Nutrient Profile
December 30, 2015 While vitamin D is important, it is not the only nutrient or strategy that we use to improve our health and prevent disease. GrassrootsHealth is in the process of expanding our...
Vitamin D Implementation Expands for YOU
December 16, 2015 It’s happening! Your participation in the D*action project as well as the implementation of our Protect our Children NOW! project in South Carolina at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)...