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Article: Vitamin D may help you dodge cancer; how to be sure you get enough.
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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Vitamin D has an illustrious history as a major bone-building nutrient required for calcium absorption and bone growth. But recent revelations about D's roles in the body have led scientists to view this nutrient in a whole new light.
"Scientists have discovered that essentially every cell in the body has receptors for active vitamin D, which wouldn't be there if they didn't have a function," says noted vitamin D researcher Michael Holick, Ph.D., M.D., of Boston University. A large and expanding body of research has suggested potential links far beyond bones, such as between vitamin D status and immune diseases like multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes and ...