The Cancer Advisor

Thousands of studies have been done on the health effects of vitamin D, and research shows it is involved in the biology of all the cells and tissues in your body, including your immune cells. Your cells actually need the active form of vitamin D to gain access to the genetic blueprints stored inside. This is one of the reasons why vitamin D has the ability to impact such a wide variety of health problems — from fetal development to cancer. Conventional Vitamin D Recommendations Are Too Low Unfortunately, despite being easy and inexpensive to address, vitamin D deficiency is an epidemic around the world. A simple mathematical error may also deter many Americans and Canadians from optimizing their vitamin D. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends a mere 600 international units (IUs) of vitamin D per day for adults.   As pointed out in a 2014 paper, 1  the IOM actually underestimated the need by a factor of 10 due to a

Can diet, supplements and lifestyle influence cancer risk? Dive into 1,000+ research studies to find out. Most of us know Steve Jobs, Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), Robin Gibb (Bee Gees), Donna Summer, Farrah Fawcett, Eartha Kitt, Peter Jennings, Paul Newman, Patrick Swayze, Sydney Pollack, Michael Crichton, Bob Denver, Ted Kennedy, Jerry Orbach, Anne Bancroft, William Rehnquist, and Tony Snow, just to name a few. What do they have in common? They all died from 'cancer'. Current large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Gemini from Google and Copilot from Microsoft might return generic answers to your questions. While these can be a starting point, they often lack the depth you might crave. That's where this article comes in. We've delved into the research to provide you with more than just basic advice. We've done the research, so that you don't have to. We'll not only share supporting evidence, but also explain our methodology for selecting the most va