I have expanded and moved my vitamin D blog to my main website 

Click here to go to the new Blog please ! 

See you over there! 

Dr Soram 

For that reason I have worked hard and just released my new DVD on Vitamin D. In this DVD, I give a Powerpoint slide lecture on all the major information in my book. In just a little over an hour you can learn the most important information in the book. 

I have gotten great feedback on my DVD already and am happy to be able to add this other way  of getting the information on Vitamin D out to the public at large!

 You can order the DVD right now at Vitamin D DVD 

Let me know what you think! 

 In this study, researchers found that  a variant in a specific gene ( CYP27B1) was associated with congestive heart failure, in people who have high blood pressure.

 this certainly corroborates previous information on the link between vitamin D deficiency with an increased risk for heart disease. Now the exciting thing about this study is that they are specifically looking at the relationship between our genes and vitamin D.

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A new study has shown once again that patients who have lymphoma are more likely to die if they have low vitamin D levels.

  At the recent American Society of Hematology meetings, a new study was presented showing this relationship.

  From 2002 to 2008 the scientists evaluated vitamin D blood levels from 374 newly diagnosed patients with diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma. This type of lymphoma accounts for about 40% of all lymphomas.

  The study showed that at diagnosis, half that patients were deficient in vitamin D. In this case the definition of deficiency was less than 25 ng /ml.

  The patients were followed for an average of three years. During this follow-up time. those patients who were deficient in vitamin D were twice as likely to die compared with patients who had adequate vitamin D blood levels at the beginning of the study. In addition  patients with low vitamin D levels were also about 50% more likely to have their cancers worsen.

  Dr. Matthew Drake of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota presented this data.

  He was quick to note that in his opinion more studies are needed before supplementation of vitamin D should be given to lymphoma patients.

  My recommendations for all Americans is to take a higher dose of vitamin D. I would have no reservations in my practice of giving  a lymphoma patient vitamin D. At worst it will do no good. Certainly it will do no harm.

Science News Article  

Original Scientific Article  

More and more information is coming out on vitamin D almost every day. We see it in the news on a regular basis.

 I am back on the blog path and will be putting blog entries regularly again.

J Mansbach, M.D.,  and the other authors of this paper again used The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from the years 2001 to 2006.

The findings were absolutely astounding showing that 69% of all American children have vitamin D levels less than 27 ng/ml. Children in the age range of 6 to 11 years had a 73% prevalence of being less than 27 ng/ml. In addition, 92% of non-Hispanic black and 80% of Hispanic children had the same insufficient levels.

  This study corroborates the one that was published several months ago showing the extreme number of children in our country who are vitamin D deficient. As I’ve pointed out in my book, extensive use of sunblock, and children’s increasingly indoor focus for  activity, with computers and games, are contributing to this massive epidemic of vitamin D deficiency in our children.

We know from studies that early childhood deficiency of vitamin D is associated with higher levels of juvenile diabetes as well as MS in later life and probably asthma and autism

I encourage all of my patients and readers to be sure that their children are getting sufficient amounts of vitamin D as a supplement in their daily nutritional program all year but especially in the winter.  Remember! Food is not a good source of vitamin D for your children.

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 Also I am  happy to let my readers know that I will be filmed for a PBS Television show, in the next 10 days. I will certainly let everybody know when it will be aired.

 Now that it’s winter I hope all of my readers are taking their vitamin D regularly. I refer you to my article recently posted on the Huffington Post about the evidence that shows that good levels of vitamin D can help protect us from epidemic influenza. 

All Greater Good Foundation 

Talk a look and let me know what you think!

Read it here

 Dr Soram 

 Agapi, who is Arianna Huffington’s sister did a video interview of me with her tiny FLIP video camera –with built in terrible microphone ! and you can watch it on the Huffington Post website ! 

Let me know what you think!

Click Here and Scroll Down to see my interviews  

It is one full hour and we were able to talk about all aspects of Vitamin D as well as several other aspects of Integrative Medicine!

Please listen and let me know if you have questions!

 Dr Soram