Could Vitamin D be the Key to Cancer Cure??????????

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Science Daily May 24, 2009.. Reuters May 20, 2009

New Model Of Cancer Development: Vitamin D is the Key

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" Researchers studying the preventive effects of vitamin D on cancer have

proposed a new model of cancer development that hinges on a loss of cancer

cells' ability to stick together. The model, dubbed DINOMIT, differs from the

older model of cancer development, which suggests genetic mutations as the

earliest driving forces behind cancer.

" The first event in cancer is loss of communication among cells due to, among

other things, low vitamin D and calcium levels, " said epidemiologist Cedric

Garland. " This loss may play a key role in cancer by disrupting the

communication between cells that is essential to healthy cell turnover, allowing

more aggressive cancer cells to take over. " Garland suggests that such cellular

disruption could account for the earliest stages of many cancers. Previous

theories linking vitamin D to certain cancers have been tested and confirmed in

more than 200 epidemiological studies, and understanding of its physiological

basis stems from more than 2,500 laboratory studies.

Each letter in DINOMIT stands for a different phase of cancer development –

disjunction, initiation, natural selection, overgrowth of cells, metastasis,

involution, and transition. While there is not yet definitive scientific proof,

Garland suggests that much of the evolutionary process in cancer could be

arrested at the outset by maintaining adequate vitamin D levels. "

" According to another study, getting more of the " sunshine vitamin " may also

help you stay mentally fit as you age. Researchers compared the cognitive

performance of more than 3,000 men aged 40 to 79, and found those with low

vitamin D levels performed less well on a task designed to test mental agility.

The findings are some of the strongest evidence yet of such a link, because of

the size of the study and because the researchers adjusted for a number of

lifestyle factors believed to affect mental ability. The researchers do not know

exactly how vitamin D and mental agility may be connected, but it could be

connected to the vitamin's role in increasing certain hormonal activity, or it

could have a protective effect on brain neurons. "

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