Reduce Your Chance of Getting Sick with Vitamin D
In an analysis of GrassrootsHealth D*action data, participants who have a vitamin D level of at least 40ng/ml (100 nmol/L), cut their risk of cold and flu by 15% and 41% respectively compared to...
Preterm Birth is on the Rise for the Second Year in a Row
November 1, 2017, March of Dimes announced that preterm birth rates are on the rise for the 2nd year in a row. Read more on CBS News or NBC News. The average preterm birth rate across the...
Let’s Level the Playing Field with Vitamin D
Racial Disparity There is a branch of the National Institutes of Health, the medical research agency of the United States, called the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) whose charter is...
Vitamin D Success Story: Prostate Cancer
Tell us a little bit about yourself My name is Mike Scott. I am 75 years old and live in Cedar Park, Texas. I retired in 2007 from biochemistry. I have been happily married...
The Summer of 1974
Or… How I Found My Life’s Mission By Cedric Garland, Dr. P.H., F.A.C.E. In the summer of 1974, my brother Frank and I found ourselves in a steaming hot lecture room at Johns Hopkins...
71% Reduction in All Cancer Risk
In April 2016, GrassrootsHealth published a research paper which focused on vitamin D levels achieved and cancer incidence. Why is this important? Because we have found, through our D*action members, that there is a...
Vitamin D Hacking Using Science
Why is vitamin D important? GrassroosHealth summarized many different research papers into one chart in order to explain why vitamin D levels are critical to disease prevention: What? How do I read this? GrassrootsHealth...
What do Randomized Controlled Trials Say about Vitamin D and Cancer?
In the beginning In early 2000, researchers from the Osteoporosis Research Center at Creighton University, Omaha, NE, decided there was enough observational research on calcium and vitamin D and cancer – but no randomized...
Is Your Vitamin D Serum Level the Best Indicator of Your Cancer Risk?
GrassrootsHealth is in the business of moving research into practice. After reading all the research on vitamin D and cancer, even if some of the papers received bad reviews, we conclude that yes –...
How to Turn One Hospital Initiative into a World-Wide Action Plan
It typically takes 17-30 years for research to become practice. Why? Because a hospital would have to create this initiative from scratch – create a plan; cull the research; design software; define the data...