Researchers are now suggesting that elevated levels of vitamin D levels can ‘virtually eradicate’ the risk of breast cancer. Is this possible?

GrassrootsHealth writes: “Breast cancer is a disease so directly related to vitamin D deficiency that a woman’s risk of contracting the disease can be ‘virtually eradicated’ by elevating her vitamin D status to what vitamin D scientists consider to be natural blood levels.”

That’s the message vitamin D pioneer Dr. Cedric Garland delivered in Toronto Tuesday as part of the University of Toronto School of Medicine’s “Diagnosis and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency” conference – the largest gathering of vitamin D researchers in North America this year. More than 170 researchers, public health officials and health practitioners gathered at the UT Faculty club for the landmark event.

Dr. Cedric Garland presented this message that headlined a conference in Toronto as part of the University of Toronto School of Medicine’s “Diagnosis and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency” conference – the largest gathering of vitamin D researchers in North America this year. At this conference many aspects of the emerging vitamin D research field were reviewed – It’s a booming discipline that has seen more than 3,000 academic papers this calendar year alone. That makes vitamin D by far the most prolific topic in medicine this year, with work connecting it with risk reduction in two dozen forms of cancer, heart disease, multiple scleroses and many other disorders.

Mostly due to Canada’s northerly latitudes and weak sun exposure, as much as 97 percent of Canadians are vitamin D deficient at some point during the year, according to University of Calgary research -. Sunshine is by far the most abundant source of vitamin D (that’s why it’s called ‘The Sunshine Vitamin’) along with other sources such as salmon and fortified milk. Supplementation of vitamin D also helps raise levels for many people as well.

The world’s leading researchers on vitamin D and many other vitamin D supporters – recommend 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily and vitamin D blood levels of 100-150 nanomoles-per-liter as measured by a vitamin D blood test.

Dr. Garland, whose presentation was entitled “Breast Cancer as a Vitamin D Deficiency Disease” presented data showing that raising one’s vitamin D status near those levels decreased breast cancer risk more than 77 percent.

“’The Sunshine Vitamin’ was once thought of only for bone health, helping the body process calcium. But more recent work has shown that all cells in the body have “vitamin D receptors” which help control normal cell growth. Additionally, Garland presented new evidence that low vitamin D status compromises the integrity of calcium-based cellular bonding within tissues, which when eroded allow rogue cancer cells to spread more readily.

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