Battle For “Soul”

Obama Prepares For “Fortress America” As Battle For “Soul” Of US Intensifies

By: Sorcha Faal

A shocking Ministry of Foreign Affairs report delivered to Prime Minister Putin today is warning that the United States is now “standing on the brink” of “open warfare” as the divide among its already fractured citizens is being exploited by the New World Order Globalists seeking to destroy the US by totally collapsing its economy and forcing from power President Obama whom they have labeled as their most “ferocious enemy”.

So dire has the situation in the United States become that one of their top Pulitzer Prize winning journalists, Thomas Friedman, is now warning that the situation in his country has deteriorated to a level exactly as what had occurred in Israel during the tumultuous year of 1995 which saw the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the hands of right-wing zealots intent upon Global war and which he fears America is now headed towards too.

The influential Christian Science Monitor News Service further warns in its report titled “Facebook poll on killing Obama sign of antigovernment anger” that:

“Not only has Mr. Obama faced a wave of threats to his safety since early in his presidential campaign and continuing into his presidency, but the federal government also now faces a resurgence of the so-called militia movement, according to organizations that track hate groups.”

Further fueling the vitriolic anger of the right-wing Globalist forces against Obama are the almost daily reports that the new American President is fast becoming an object of worship among large numbers of US citizens, including church congregations that are now praying to him and school children being taught to praise him as a “great leader”.

What the great masses of Americans are failing to understand about Obama, this report says, is that the “unwanted and unsolicited” praise being heaped upon him is a “known societal outcome” of a charismatic leader coming to power during times of epoch changing events and who dares to fight against the entrenched power blocs for the survival of their Nation, and include two of the most popular and powerful US Presidents, Abraham Lincoln, who guided his people through their catastrophic Civil War, and Franklin Roosevelt, who protected his citizens during the Great Depression and through the cataclysmic events of World War II.

Like Obama is facing today, both Lincoln and Roosevelt were also “objects” of both great affection and great hatred, with Lincoln paying the “ultimate sacrifice” upon his assassination, and Roosevelt who survived an assassination attempt and the 1933 right-wing coup plot that sought to remove him from power and put into place a Nazi aligned dictatorship over the American people.

Most astoundingly about the titanic events occurring in America is the divide being forced among their citizens over the right to health care, and which the US Campaign Media Analysis Group is now reporting that the right-wing Globalist forces arrayed against Obama have spent over $100 Million in advertisements alone to see the US Presidents plan to protect his people destroyed.

And what makes the American peoples anger against Obama even more absurd over this health care issue is their failure to even notice that while their economy remains the most powerful in the World, their health care system ranks 37^th, which places them between Costa Rica at 36^th and Slovenia at 38^th, while at the same time their private insurance giants rake in billions of profits utilizing a scheme that a former head of corporate communications for US insurance giant CIGNA, Wendell Potter, testified about before Congress saying that these insurance giants “make money by avoiding as much risk as possible and ducking people who are sick. They delay and deny care. They rescind policies. If people who have paid premiums for years have high insurance bills, they will use any reason they can find to cancel their policies.”

Even more critically, this report continues, is Obama’s “facing down” the power these right-wing Globalists wield through their private bank known as the US Federal Reserve System, and which World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick has just warned that the American public and US Congress not to give more power to these “independent and powerful technocrats” and regain the right to their own money through the US Treasury.

So dire has this battle become between Obama and these right-wing Globalists that Jim Rickards, director of market intelligence for scientific consulting firm Omnis, has just issued a warning that the US Federal Reserve System is preparing to collapse the US Dollar through the systematic raising of interest rates that in an economy where there are 6 American workers seeking jobs for every 1 opening, and the US Business Roundtable is reporting that over 40% of American companies are preparing to cut more jobs in the next six months, the dire warning issued by the influential Bloomberg News Service that the United States is now in a ‘Fall of Rome Scenario’ should shake these peoples to their very core.

Most interestingly in this report are the GRU assertions that Obama is preparing to create a new “Fortress America” to protect his people from both the right-wing Globalists and their “chosen” 21^st Century “superpower” China whose growing military might they intend to use to bring the West to heel, especially the United States who the Chinese are currently embroiled in open economic warfare with over the last remaining sources of mineral, gas and oil resources on our Planet both of these Nations need if they are to survive.

The GRU points out in this report that by Obama’s launching of a trade war with China by restricting steel and tire imports into the United States, the American President is now moving against the Chinese militarily by signing a new defense pact with Panama which will allow US Naval Forces to retake two Navy Bases in this critical Central American Nation to counter the “beachhead” China established after the 1977 treaty signed by the Globalist US President Jimmy Carter where the US gave up their rights to the critical for World trade Panama Canal.

Even more importantly, the GRU continues in this report, Obama is now reported to be in a “deadly face-off” with the right-wing Globalist faction in his country called the Military Industrial Complex (a term coined by US President Dwight Eisenhower who upon leaving office in 1961 warned his Nation that unless the power of this faction was broken the United States would be destroyed).

Not since President John F. Kennedy confronted this Military Industrial faction during the early 1960’s by his refusal to expand the war in Vietnam has any American leader dared oppose the “black power” of these Globalist forces, but which Obama is now doing by his intention to scale back the US Military presence in Afghanistan.

More ominously however, this report warns, Obama has just ordered nearly 4,000 battle-hardened US Soldiers to “immediately” return to the United States from their bases in Iraq in a move to shore up his strength before the cataclysmic events of late October and early November begin to convulse the United States as the “fight for this Nations soul” brings it to the brink of collapse.

To the chances of the American people awakening from their deep slumber to see the truth of what is happening to them before all is lost there appears to be no evidence. In fact, and sadly, the exact opposite is now occurring among these witless peoples who are continuing to allow their emotions to be manipulated by their propaganda media towards an end which, unless they awaken, and fast, will see them enslaved to their right-wing Globalist corporate masters their forefathers long warned them about.

The great American Revolutionary War leader, and their first President, George Washington, once warned these people that “The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.”

Now 233 years after these words were spoken, and with the fate of the United States once again hanging in the balance, these words echo across time to the Americans of today. Too how many of them will hear them though rests the fate of our World.

© September 30, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved

Are You Ready? You’d Better Be!

Paul Washer - The Great Commission

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In this episode of PZ Radio I get on my soap box for a few minutes about the upcoming Muslim Day of Prayer and what we as Christians need to do about it. Is there something we can do? You betcha!

I am also pleased to present a great sermon by Paul Washer on The Great Commission. Folks we have been wallowing in the blessings of the Lord for so long that we have become complacent. Our nation is where it is at and it is because we as Christians have not occupied till He returns. This is an outstanding teaching. It is our desire to continue to equip you to be better and stronger Christians, effective for the Lord instead of babes in Christ still feeding upon milk.

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Netanyahu Thunderin' in The UN
Updated 09-25-09 9:30 AM CST

There were 2,540 news stories returned to me using the keywords “Netanyahu UN speech” according to Google’s news aggregator. However, the only ones I got to read there are the four Google selected for its main page.

Clicking on the link to the 2,450 stories behind them took me to the list of stories about Obama and Iran. To get beyond the four stories selected by Google (is it a coincidence the first one was from Manar – the Palestinian News Agency?) I had to go to Yahoo.

Interesting. . . .

Netanyahu blistered the assembled UN delegates who gave audience to Ahmadinejad after his denial of the Holocaust and his threats to annihilate the Jewish state.

“But to those who gave this Holocaust-denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you no shame? Have you no decency?"

"A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies that the murder of six million Jews took place and pledges to wipe out the Jewish state."

"What a disgrace! What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations! Perhaps some of you think that this man and his odious regime threaten only the Jews. You're wrong.”

” And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: And thou shalt come up against My people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against My land . . . ”

I literal wept as Netanyahu restated his nation’s case against the United Nations;

"When Israel left Gaza, many hoped that the missile attacks would stop. Others believed that at the very least, Israel would have international legitimacy to exercise its right of self-defense. What legitimacy? What self-defense?"

"The same UN that cheered Israel as it left Gaza and promised to back our right of self-defense now accuses us –my people, my country - of war crimes? And for what? For acting responsibly in self-defense. What a travesty!”

Netanyahu accused the UN Human Rights Council of morally “hanging, drawing and quartering” Israel “and giving it an unfair trial, to boot.”

“By these twisted standards, the UN Human Rights Council would have dragged Roosevelt and Churchill to the dock as war criminals. What a perversion of truth. What a perversion of justice.”

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Reported by Jack Kinsella
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SAVING YOUR MARRIAGE

Ten Lies that Lead to Divorce By Dr. Linda Mintle Family Therapist Do your own self-check. Lie #1: Marriage is a contract. Yes, marriage is a legal contract, but in God’s eyes it is much more. The truth is marriage is a covenant, an unbreakable promise. It is life commitment. It means “for better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and in health.” It means loving someone when you don’t feel like it, staying faithful, and working through difficulty and bad times. Lie #2: I married you, not your family. The truth is you don’t marry just your spouse; you get her family as a package deal! Don’t kid yourself and think the outlawed in-laws don’t matter. Your spouse grew up in a family that taught her how to be who she is today. Yes, there are other influences and people can change, but family is a primary force in the development of any individual. Lie #3: I can change my spouse. Wrong! The fact that she's continually late or her apartment is a mess is not likely to change because of your undying love. Pay attention to the red flags you see during the dating relationship, especially the more serious ones, such as drinking too much, violent temper, promise breaking, etc. Chances are these things won't improve but worsen after the honeymoon is over. The truth: all you have control over is your reaction to your spouse. That's the only part you can change. Lies #4: We are too different. Differences are not a major problem as long as the differences are not about life values and morals. Incompatibility doesn't kill a relationship. The real issue is how you handle your differences. You need compatible styles that work for both people. Some differences are unsolvable and couples need to learn to accept those. And the Bible gives clear guidelines on how to deal with conflict in a Christ-like way. Lie #5: I've lost that loving feeling and it's gone, gone, gone! Intense passion doesn't last forever but love can stay for a lifetime. You may not always feel love but you must determine to love your partner as yourself. The loving feeling dwindles when couples lock into negative patterns that lead them away from each other. Criticism moves to contempt and highly defensive behavior that eventually leads to emotional distance. The truth is you can restore that loving feeling with a number of changes. One is to make five positive statements to your spouse for every negative one. Other changes focus on building friendship and support. I don't doubt when men tell me they no longer feel love for their wives. I just want them to understand that loving feelings can be rekindled. Lie #6: A more traditional marriage will save us. Out of frustration, many men feel that if their relationship could be more like the Brady Bunch couple, life would be happier. They are confused about gender roles and responsibilities. Submission is a misunderstood and often abused concept. God's intention for marriage is gender equality. On two occasions, God revealed His will on earth concerning gender--in the Garden and in the life of Christ. Look to those examples of how men and women should interact. You will find that no matter how you negotiate the relationship, you need mutual submission, respect, honor, empowerment and empathy. Lie #7: I can't change--this is who I am: take it or leave it. An unwillingness to change is rooted in rebellion. It's doing things your way versus God's. To say you can't change obviates the entire Christian experience of salvation and change of heart. Yes, we are always striving for perfection but the operative phrase is that we should be striving. This requires a willingness to look at your behavior and work towards being more like Christ. If both spouses in marriage would do this regularly, divorce would be less prevalent. Change doesn't happen when you don't embrace it. You can change but it requires desire, obedience and Holy Spirit driven power. Lie #8: There's been an affair. We need to divorce. Affairs are serious and damaging but they are not beyond repair if both spouses agree to try. There must be a commitment to cut off the affair, a time of repentance, forgiveness and a rebuilding of the relationship. The covenant has been broken but can be restored if a couple chooses to do so. It's not easy but possible. Lie #9: It doesn't matter what I do: God will forgive me. God will forgive you if you repent but it does matter what you do. Your behavior has natural, as well as spiritual consequences so don't cheapen God's grace. Lie #10: It's too broken. If you've given up, the future looks hopeless, you've grown apart, can't manage conflict, made a mistake or whatever the problem, believe that God can work when you can't. He can change hearts, do miracles and work in the most difficult circumstances. He is the God of the possible. Draw close to Him, intercede for your marriage, do battle with your true enemy (Satan) and expect God to work on your behalf. If you and your partner stay intimately connected to God, your marriage will reflect that intimacy. Divorce doesn't have to happen. Recognize the cultural lies that influence you and counteract them with biblical truth. No marriage is beyond the probability of divorce but you can be proactive in preventing it. It's time to improve on the divorce statistics and divorce proof your marriage. More Marriage articles on CBN.com For more stories like this one, sign up to receive Family News from CBN.com in your email every week. Dr. Linda Mintle is a author, professor, Approved Supervisor and Clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, as well as a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years in psychotherapy practice. For more articles and info, visit www.drlindahelps.com.

USE THE GIFTS GOD HAS GIVEN YOU AND FIND ENDLESS JOY AS HIS SPIRIT REPLENISHES YOU

A great means of grace is to concentrate on letting the spirit of your gifts flow through you. Did you ever think of it that way? The flow of the spirit of your gifts.

For we all have them; everyone is equal; it's simply that we have different gifts.

And the more we use the gifts assigned to us from the beginning of time -- the more we exercise the spiritual muscle with which we were endowed -- the more powerful those become and the more grace they shed!

Think of it too as healing, enlightenment, and cleansing: when we have gifts and use them to help others, the power behind those gifts is replenished by the Holy Spirit. It keeps flowing through us! Our angels can help us with this.

The Lord fills and refills and we are refreshed each time that He cycles through us. The replenishment heals. It cleanses. Every time the Holy Spirit comes to renew gifts we have "used up," we benefit because His power of well-being, of insight, of perception is flowing through us. Use your gifts over and again and He will provide new ones and sharpen what you already have!

You see, the Lord multiplies gifts just as He multiplied the loaves -- and in fact a priest named Father Rick Thomas from Texas who fed the poorest of the Mexican poor and often witnessed true modern-day multiplication (of food they served in ghettos and jails) taught that "the whole aim is to do God's Will. He cooperates in what you're doing as you cooperate in what He's doing." Here is something else we can say: when you want something too much, give it to God; just hand it to Him; if it's right for you, He'll return it twofold. If not, it will turn into something else. If there is anxiety, it's rooted in "self."

God is above nature. Don't see Him through natural eyes! As Father Rick also once said, God can "easily supply material resources" -- if the gift you are using is the one He has given to you and if those resources will further your mission.

When He doesn't, He has something else in mind. He has some other plan for your gifts. Often, we don't even realize what our gifts are. We strive elsewhere. We want fame. We want worldliness. We become frustrated. Blessed are those who don't succeed at what they are not supposed to succeed at! The devil can cause good people to do good things that God does not want them to do. He diverts us. Father Rick warned of this also!

When you have a legitimate cause and a legitimate gift, it is something that is not forced; it is not contrived; it is not pretentious; it should be from God, not something you thought up. We all fall into the trap of seeking routes other than those He designed. Follow the flow of the Spirit and what you are designed to do will flow naturally.

We know a man who carves intricate wood clocks and just gives them away without wanting a thing and this is truly a visible way of doing what God wants from all of us: giving freely, without looking for benefit. When he dies, he will revel in feeling all the joy of those who received his terrific work -- months spent on each as he handcarved them!

Somehow, your gifts are tied to your life mission.

If you are being blocked, there could be something hidden that is the obstacle.

It could be sin. It could be a bad habit. It could be a curse.

Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal it.

Then:

Repent. Revoke. Replace.

Get rid of false "gifts."

Don't look for a return on your investment. Do it for the sake of aiding others -- for the sake of doing it -- and ask only for gifts that can be used in a way that's unselfish.

If you are working on something or praying ardently for something, gift it to God with a sincere heart -- hand it over to Him -- and if it's right for you it will return imbued with real power. Then, nothing will stop it!

Cycle. Recycle. Let the power of gifts flow through every part of your being. Exhaust them, and you will never be exhausted. He'll guide you as to the best use of them. He will be there for refills. He will fill you up so much that the devil must leave. A person who smiles: that is a gift. A person who is good at praying: what a gift this is. A person who does carpentry: he builds. A person gifted with money: there are many ways of helping others. A person who works as an accountant can bless each client.

Spend your life trying to make others feel good and you will rejoice with constant augmentation of talent.

See the big in the little. Release what you have to God and the habit of release will soon cause you to release also tension.

Always, proceed with life as if you will one day watch your life like a movie -- for one day you will!

Don't look to "win the lottery." Don't waste your life chasing the brass ring. Forget about accumulating -- hording -- wealth. That is the "way of the world." As Scripture tells us, it will only cause "piercing."

It is hot air. Like a balloon, one day, inevitably, it will be pricked; it will deflate.

Fill yourself instead with the living waters of God, which are without end and which come with joy, peace, and health, when your gifts need to be replenished.

[resources: The Other Side and The God of Miracles]

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Vitamin D3: The Most Useful Nutritional Tools

Vitamin D3:

Higher Doses Reduce Risk of Common Health Concerns

By Chris D. Meletis, ND

Vitamin D3 is one of the most useful nutritional tools we have at our disposal for improving overall health. This vitamin is unique because cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3) is a vitamin derived from 7-dehyrocholesterol; however, Vitamin D3 acquires hormone-like actions when cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3) is converted to 1,25-dihydroxy Vitamin D3 (Calcitriol) by the liver and kidneys. As a hormone, Calcitriol controls phosphorus, calcium, and bone metabolism and neuromuscular function. Vitamin D3 is the only vitamin the body can manufacture from sunlight (UVB). Yet, with today’s indoor living and the extensive use of sunscreens due to concern about skin cancer, we are now a society with millions of individuals deficient in life-sustaining bone building and immune modulating 1,25-dihydroxy Vitamin D3.

For more than a century, scientists have recognized that Vitamin D3 is involved in bone health. Research has continued to accumulate, documenting Calcitriol’s role in the reduction of the risk of fractures to a significant degree. The latest research, however, shows that 1,25-dihyroxy Vitamin D3 deficiency is linked to a surprising number of other health conditions such as depression, back pain, cancer, both insulin resistance and pre-eclampsia during pregnancy, impaired immunity and macular degeneration.

As it becomes clear that Vitamin D3 plays a wide role in overall health, it’s becoming equally clear that a large percentage of individuals are deficient in this important nutrient, which has hormone-like activity. The fear of skin cancer has stopped many individuals from obtaining beneficial amounts of sunlight. The skin uses the energy of UVB to convert 7-dehydrocholesterol into Vitamin D3. Even individuals, who venture out into the sun often and use suntan lotion, may be deficient in Vitamin D3. Furthermore, as we age, we are less equipped to produce sufficient quantities of this vital nutrient. One study found that age-related declines in kidney function may require older people to ingest more Vitamin D3 to maintain the same blood levels as younger people.1

The Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) of Vitamin D3 is set so low those mature individuals who consume this small amount (400 to 600 International Unites (I.U.’s)) are still likely to be deficient if they live north of the Tropic of Cancer or south of the Tropic of Capricorn. In fact, researchers have discovered that the RDI, which was considered adequate to prevent osteomalacia (a painful bone disease) or rickets, is not high enough to protect against the majority of diseases linked to 1,25-dihyroxy Vitamin D3 deficiency. For example, an analysis of the medical literature found that at least 1,000 to 2,000 IU of Vitamin D3 per day is necessary to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer and that lower doses of Vitamin D3 did not have the same protective effect.2

Researchers Call for Higher Doses

In an editorial in the March 2007 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a prominent group of researchers from leading institutions such as the University of Toronto, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Tufts University and University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, lashed out at the conventional media for its inaccurate reporting of Vitamin D supplementation.3

The researchers wrote, “Almost every time the public media report that Vitamin D nutrition status is too low, or that higher Vitamin D intakes may improve measures of health, the advice that accompanies the report is outdated and thus misleading. Media reports to the public are typically accompanied by a paragraph that approximates the following: ‘Current recommendations from the Institute of Medicine call for 200 IU/day from birth through age 50 years, 400 IU for those aged 51–70 years, and 600 IU for those aged >70 years. Some experts say that optimal amounts are closer to 1,000 IU daily. Until more is known, it is wise not to overdo it.’ The only conclusion that the public can draw from this is to do nothing different from what they have done in the past.”

The researchers point out that supplemental intake of 400 IU per day barely raises blood concentrations of 25(OH)D, which is the circulating Vitamin D metabolite that serves as the most frequently measured indicator of Vitamin D status. To raise 25(OH)D from 50 to 80 nmol/L requires an additional intake of 1,700 IU Vitamin D per day.

The researchers went on to write that, “The balance of the evidence leads to the conclusion that the public health is best served by a recommendation of higher daily intakes of Vitamin D. Relatively simple and low-cost changes, such as increased food fortification or increasing the amount of Vitamin D in Vitamin supplement products, may very well bring about rapid and important reductions in the morbidity associated with low Vitamin D status.”

One of the challenges is the outdated acceptable upper limit for Vitamin D3 consumption, which was set at 2,000 IU. However, researchers point out that more recent studies have shown that 10,000 IU is the safe upper limit.4

Dr. R. Vieth, one of the foremost authorities on Vitamin D3 supplementation, has extensively studied Vitamin D, and lamented the low requirements for Vitamin D3 in a recent issue of the Journal of Nutrition: “Inappropriately low UL [upper limit] values, or guidance values, for Vitamin D have hindered objective clinical research on Vitamin D nutrition; they have hindered our understanding of its role in disease prevention, and restricted the amount of Vitamin D in multivitamins and foods to doses (that are) too low to benefit public health.”5

When examining the medical literature, it becomes clear that Vitamin D3 affects human health in an astonishing number of ways and that not obtaining enough of this important nutrient can leave the door open to developing a number of health conditions.

Depression

Vitamin D3 deficiency is common in older adults and has been implicated in psychiatric and neurologic disorders. For example, in one study of 80 older adults (40 with mild Alzheimer’s disease and 40 nondemented persons), Vitamin D3 deficiency was associated with low mood and with impairment on two of four measures of cognitive performance.6

Back Pain

Musculoskeletal disorders have been linked to Vitamin D3 deficiency in a number of studies. One of the newest studies explored the role that low Vitamin D3 levels play in the development of chronic low back pain in women. Sixty female patients in Egypt complaining of low back pain lasting more than three months were studied. Researchers measured levels of Vitamin D3 in the women with low back pain and compared those levels to those of 20 matched healthy controls.

The study revealed that patients with low back pain had significantly lower Vitamin D3 levels than controls. Low Vitamin D3 levels (25 OHD <>

Bone Health

One of the best known and long-established benefits of Vitamin D3 is its ability to improve bone health and the health of the musculoskeletal system. It is well documented that Vitamin D3 deficiency causes osteopenia, precipitates and exacerbates osteoporosis, causes a painful bone disease known as osteomalacia, and exacerbates muscle weakness, which increases the risk of falls and fractures. Vitamin D3 insufficiency may alter the regulatory mechanisms of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and cause a secondary hyperparathyroidism that increases the risk of osteoporosis and fractures.8

Cognitive Enhancement

Scientists are developing a greater appreciation for Vitamin D3’s ability to improve cognition. In a recent study, Vitamin D3 deficient subjects scored worse on mental function tests compared to individuals who had higher levels of the Vitamin.9 The researchers wrote, “In conclusion, the positive, significant correlation between serum 25(OH)D concentration and MMSE [mental state examination scores] in these patients suggests a potential role for Vitamin D in cognitive function of older adults.”

Cancer

One researcher first noted the connection between Vitamin D3 and protection from cancer in the 1940s, when he discovered that individuals at sunny latitudes had a reduced rate of deaths from cancer. He suggested that sunlight provided “a relative cancer immunity.”
Since then, a number of studies have strongly suggested that Vitamin D3 deficiency is associated with an increased risk of developing many forms of cancer including breast, ovarian, prostate and colon cancer.10 In one recent clinical trial, researchers studied 1,179 healthy, postmenopausal women (all 55 years or older and free of known cancers for at least 10 years prior to entering the study) who were taking large amounts of Vitamin D3 with calcium. The subjects were randomly assigned to take daily dosages of: (1) 1,400-1,500 mg supplemental calcium, (2) 1,400-1,500 mg supplemental calcium plus 1,100 IU of Vitamin D3, or (3) placebos. Over the four-year trial, women in the calcium/Vitamin D3 group experienced a 60 percent or greater reduced risk of cancer than their peers in the placebo group, who were not consuming these supplements.

Because there was the chance that some women may have had undiagnosed cancers at the study’s start, the researchers threw out the first-year results and then analyzed the results from the last three years of the trial. These later years resulted in even more dramatic decrease, with the calcium/Vitamin D3 group experiencing a 77 percent reduction in cancer risk.

There was no statistically significant difference in cancer incidence between the participants taking placebos and subjects consuming only calcium supplements.11

Another interesting study demonstrated that in vitro Vitamin D3 may cause tumor cells to be more sensitive to chemotherapy drugs, increasing the efficacy of the cancer treatment.12

Immunity

Scientists have linked various aspects of immune health to a Vitamin D3 deficiency. Vitamin D3 regulates T cells, which are important to the functioning of a strong immune system. Vitamin D3 acts as an immune system modulator, preventing excessive expression of inflammatory cytokines and increasing the killing efficiency of macrophages. In addition, it dramatically stimulates the expression of potent anti-microbial peptides, which exist in immune system cells such as neutrophils, monocytes, natural killer cells, and in cells lining the respiratory tract. These Vitamin-D3-stimulated peptides play a major role in protecting the lung from infection.13

In addition, Vitamin D3 deficiency may influence development and progression of various autoimmune diseases.14

Multi-Talented Nutrient

Vitamin D3 deficiency has been linked to a host of other conditions such as high blood pressure, fibromyalgia, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and an increased risk of pre-eclampsia and insulin resistance during pregnancy.11,15-16 Most recently, low Vitamin D3 levels have been linked to an increased prevalence of early age-related macular degeneration.17

Proper Dosage

In many of my patients, even after consuming 2,000 to 4,000 IU of Vitamin D3 per day, their test results indicate that their Vitamin D3 levels have not increased. These patients needed to consume 8,000 IU of Vitamin D3 per day to achieve proper blood levels of the Vitamin. Patients should, therefore, have their physicians test their serum 1,25-dihyroxy D3 levels to determine the proper level of supplementation required. Testing is very important due to the fact that, in a small number of patients, Vitamin D3 supplementation can raise calcium levels to an excessively high level. I have found this to be especially true in African American patients. Testing for 1,25-dihyroxy Vitamin D3, PTH and calcium blood levels should therefore become a part of every woman’s regular blood work.

Conclusion

A growing number of researchers who have widely studied Vitamin D3 are almost begging the general public to consume more of this important nutrient. Due to Vitamin D3’s high safety profile in doses up to 10,000 IU per day and because of the wide role it plays in our health, consuming 2,000 to 4,000 IU per day of this nutrient at times of the year when sunlight is scarce is a prudent way to improve overall health.

References

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2. Gorham ED, Garland CF, Garland FC, Grant WB, Mohr SB, Lipkin M, Newmark HL, Giovannucci E, Wei M, Holick MF. Optimal Vitamin D status for colorectal cancer prevention: a quantitative meta analysis. Am J Prev Med. 2007 Mar;32(3):210-6.
3. Vieth R, Bischoff-Ferrari H, Boucher BJ, Dawson-Hughes B, Garland CF, Heaney RP, Holick MF, Hollis BW, Lamberg-Allardt C, McGrath JJ, Norman AW, Scragg R, Whiting SJ, Willett WC, Zittermann A. The urgent need to recommend an intake of Vitamin D that is effective. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. March 2007;85(3):649-650.
4. Hathcock JN, Shao A, Vieth R, Heaney R. Risk assessment for Vitamin D. Am J Clin Nutr. 2007 Jan;85(1):6-18.
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