| Hippocrates (460 BC - 370 BC) proposed a cancer | | | | Vitamin D isn't really a vitamin. Since vitamin D is |
| cure based on the humor theory of four bodily fluids: | | | | usually produced by the body's largest organ, the |
| black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. According to | | | | skin, it's really a hormone. For a chemical substance to |
| the humor theory, if a patient's humor became | | | | qualify as a hormone, it needs to be produced by |
| unbalanced, the patient developed cancer or other | | | | one of the body's organs. |
| illnesses. | | | | Not only do plants need sunlight to be healthy, |
| To rebalance the patients' humor, treatment | | | | humans also need it. Long ago, sunlight exposure was |
| consisted of diet, bloodletting, or purging. Surprisingly, | | | | the only way humans got adequate amounts of |
| humor-theory treatment remained popular until the | | | | vitamin D. Most foods are vitamin D-free or contain |
| 19th century. The humor theory was later proven to | | | | small traces of it - not enough for best health! The |
| be twaddle. | | | | human skin is designed to photosynthesize large |
| Surgery as a possible cancer cure was described in | | | | amounts of vitamin D from sunlight exposure. |
| the 1020s by Avicenna in "The Canon of Medicine." | | | | Researchers recently discovered vitamin D |
| He promoted the surgical removal of diseased body | | | | deficiencies among the following people: |
| parts or tissues. In the 16th and 17th centuries, more | | | | People spending most of their time indoors, |
| doctors dissected bodies to discover the cause of | | | | People regularly covering all their skin with clothing, |
| death. | | | | People regularly slathering on sunscreen, |
| Between 1871 and 1874, English surgeon Campbell De | | | | People aged 50 and older, |
| Morgan formulated that cancer spreads from a tumor | | | | People with excessive body fat, |
| to other body areas. Nevertheless, using surgery to | | | | People with inflammatory bowel disease, and |
| cure cancer had poor results due to hygienic | | | | People living far from the equator. For example, the |
| problems of that time period. | | | | following cities have high cancer rates: Seattle, |
| With hygienic improvement, surgery eventually | | | | Toronto, Boston, London, Dublin, Helsinki, |
| became an effective cancer cure for early-stage | | | | Copenhagen, Berlin, Moscow, and Anchorage. |
| cancer. But the later the cancer stage, the less | | | | Also researchers found that dark-skinned people are |
| effective surgery became. And cancer sometimes | | | | more susceptible to vitamin D deficiency, because |
| returned despite surgery. | | | | their skin filters out more sunlight than light-skinned |
| At the end of the 19th century, Marie and Pierre | | | | people. |
| Curie found radiation to be a possible nonsurgical | | | | Additionally, researchers discovered that many of |
| cancer cure. Surgeons began working with | | | | these vitamin D-deficient people developed medical |
| radiologists, improving cancer-cure results. But | | | | conditions such as cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, |
| radiation's effectiveness depended on the cancer's | | | | obesity, heart disease, clinical depression, chronic |
| location. | | | | anxiety, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, |
| In the 1940s, several patients with advanced cancer | | | | multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's |
| of the white blood cells were given mustard gas | | | | disease, psoriasis, eczema, high blood pressure, bone |
| intravenously rather than nasally. The patients | | | | softening diseases, chronic pain, muscle weakness, |
| improved remarkably - but temporarily! Researchers | | | | viral infections, polycystic ovary syndrome, and |
| began searching for other anticancer substances, | | | | migraine headaches. |
| giving birth to chemotherapy. | | | | But since this article is about cancer, we'll stay |
| Since then, many anticancer drugs have been | | | | focused on cancer. |
| developed, exploding drug development into a | | | | Can vitamin D cure cancer? Surprisingly, the answer is |
| multibillion dollar industry. So is chemotherapy the | | | | yes. |
| cancer cure? No. Unfortunately, some cancers are | | | | Vitamin D is a powerful hormone that regulates and |
| resistant to chemotherapy. | | | | repairs bodily cells. If you have adequate amounts of |
| As you can see, the search for a cancer cure has | | | | vitamin D in your body, the cancer cells in your body |
| been going on for hundreds of years. And you can | | | | stop growing and dividing uncontrollably, stop invading |
| see that a "real" cancer cure doesn't exist. Hundreds | | | | and destroying other bodily tissues, stop spreading |
| of years of seeking a cancer cure has only led us to | | | | throughout your body, and begin specialization for |
| radiation, chemo, and surgical therapy. And even | | | | specific bodily functions. |
| these don't work well on all cancers. So what are we | | | | Also the cancer cells lose their immortality, and begin |
| to do? | | | | to die normally. Vitamin D forces cancer cells to |
| Actually, a "real" cancer cure exists - but it's so new | | | | behave like normal cells! |
| that it's not widely known! | | | | The singular most important cause of cancer is |
| WHAT IS CANCER? | | | | vitamin D deficiency. Most, if not all, cancer patients |
| Cancer involves groups of bodily cells growing and | | | | are vitamin D deficient. |
| dividing uncontrollably, refusing specialization for | | | | VITAMIN D DOSE |
| specific bodily functions, invading and destroying | | | | In the past, people believed that taking 600 IU of |
| other bodily tissues, and sometimes spreading | | | | vitamin D daily was enough for good health. |
| throughout the body. Most cancers form a tumor, | | | | Currently, researchers found that adults need at least |
| but not all. For example, leukemia (cancer of the | | | | 4,000 IU of vitamin D daily for therapeutic anticancer |
| blood or bone marrow) doesn't. | | | | effects! |
| Cancer affects people of all ages, but affects older | | | | But how much is too much? Doesn't vitamin D |
| people more. According to the American Cancer | | | | become toxic at high doses? Vitamin D does become |
| Society, cancer killed 7.6 million people worldwide in | | | | toxic at high doses, but it's much higher than you |
| 2007! | | | | think. Researchers recently found that to poison |
| Cancer is caused by damaged genes within bodily | | | | yourself with vitamin D, you need to take at least |
| cells. These damages can be caused by tobacco | | | | 40,000 IU of vitamin D daily. |
| smoke, asbestos fibers, radiation, chemicals, or viral | | | | So if you have cancer, a strong and safe therapeutic |
| infections. Cancer-promoting genetic damages can | | | | dose of vitamin D could range between 10,000 IU |
| also be inherited. | | | | and 20,000 IU daily. |
| Normal cells are programmed to kill themselves if | | | | WHERE DO I BUY VITAMIN D? |
| they become damaged beyond repair. Nevertheless, | | | | You can buy vitamin D tablets at vitamin and retail |
| this program is turned off in cancer cells - allowing | | | | stores. It's more convenient to buy tablets that have |
| them immortality! | | | | the highest dose per tablet. For example, I buy |
| Basically, cancer cells are immortal "brain-damaged" | | | | bottles of vitamin D containing 2,000 IU per tablet. So |
| cells that act crazy, killing normal cells, interfering with | | | | I need to take only five tablets to equal 10,000 IU - |
| normal bodily functions. | | | | very convenient! |
| VITAMIN D AND CANCER | | | | |