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It seems like I'm always finding a new reason to take my Vitamin D. But I'm not surprised since taking a Vitamin D pill is like getting a little extra sunlight... and sunlight is up there in importance with water and oxygen. So here's the latest word on Vitamin D, the Sunshine Vitamin:
Vitamin D supplements may cut depression symptoms
Aug 12, 2009
Treating women with seasonal depression using a vitamin D supplement can reduce depressive symptoms, according to a study published in...Applied Nursing Research.
Aug 12, 2009
Treating women with seasonal depression using a vitamin D supplement can reduce depressive symptoms, according to a study published in...Applied Nursing Research.
Clarissa Shipowick... and colleagues conducted a study of nine women with serum vitamin D levels of less than 40... The subjects experienced an average increase in vitamin D levels of 27... after taking a daily supplement of 5,000 IU of the vitamin, and depressive symptoms eased after supplementation, the investigators found...
Click Here For The Complete Story=> http://www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Modern+Medicine+Now/Vitamin-D-Supplements-May-Cut-Depression-Symptoms/ArticleNewsFeed/Article/detail/612327?contextCategoryId=46736
Our second article is about Dr. Leon Speroff who is one of the thought leaders of modern Gynecology. Here are his most recent opinions on the fascinating and constantly changing subject of menopausal hormone therapy... and views that I totally agree with. Dr. Rehert
Hormones reduce heart disease risk in younger women
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
The headlines contending that hormone therapy increases the chance of heart attacks and cancer are not completely accurate, according to one expert.
Hormone therapy for older women, in their 60s and 70s, does carry increased risk of heart attacks, says Dr. Leon Speroff... But for younger women, that's not the case. A number of studies indicate estrogen therapy very likely does reduce heart disease in women under 60... The much publicized Women's Health Initiative found that heart attacks increased only in women over the age of 70, he said. A re-analysis of the data published in 2007 showed that women ages 50 to 60 who participated in the study had a reduction in coronary heart disease...
So the message today is different from the original message in 2002... "Slowly but surely, an accurate assessment of the Women's Health Initiative data has emerged," says Speroff, a national expert in the field of reproductive endocrinology and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Oregon Health and Science University...
Speroff believes estrogen's relationship to breast cancer has been overstated... "If it is real," he said - it is less than the risk associated with a positive family history, drinking every day or being overweight. Speroff believes hormone therapy most likely increases the chances of detecting tumors already in progress rather than causes cancer... In fact, hormone therapy may be helpful, he says.
Click Here To Read More On This Ever Developing Subject=> http://journalstar.com/news/local/article_a6ba8f90-8a00-11de-a130-001cc4c002e0.html
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