Did you know that fully one out of every seven men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime? (source: Prostate Cancer Foundation) This is much too high.

I have a husband, as many women do, who has had prostate cancer AND treatment. I encourage any of you women, who have a husband such as mine, to make sure that your husband gets on vitamin D right now and measure their serum levels. It matters!  Please note that the men in Dr. Hollis' study reached a plateau of about 60 ng/ml taking 4000 IU vitamin D / day for a year, and, those were the ones with the biggest benefit.  We need to constantly focus ourselves on the serum level vs the intake as being the appropriate biological marker.  We will publish more on this next month.

Since it is prostate cancer awareness month, it is a good time to remind everyone about our scientists' findings on vitamin D and prostate cancer. Both Reinhold Vieth and Bruce Hollis have been involved with vitamin D for a very long time and are ambassadors at their universities for vitamin D. They have both started studies giving larger doses to study participants, something that was thought to be unsafe before 2015. (Dr. Hollis was the first to get permission to give 4000 IU/day back in 2007.)

Of interesting note,  one out of every seven men get prostate cancer in their lifetime, and one out of every eight women get breast cancer.  Approximately 200,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in a year; 250,000 women with breast cancer.  Have you noted how much advertising and time gets spent on prostate cancer vs breast cancer?  

The American Cancer Society notes funding of $88MM for breast cancer, only $42MM for prostate cancer.  While I very
much believe we need to have research for breast cancer, what's happening to the men?  How can we address this???  I'd be very interested in your comments and/or input on this.

I hope you forward this newsletter to every man in your life.

Please also continue to ask your friends to sign our change.org petition. If you have already signed, please share it on your Facebook page. 

I do have a husband over 30 and this newsletter is a great reminder, that even though his D-level is within the recommended range (40-60 ng/ml), it would be best if he took his D daily. (He is unable to get outside during his work day for a D break). So, I will heed the call and remind him to take his vitamin D daily and to aim for about 60 ng/ml.

On another front, I was excited to start our change.org petition to petition the US Breastfeeding Committee to change the DRI for breastfeeding women to 6400 IU vitamin D per day. As of writing it is almost 900 strong. While I do not know how many signatures will make our government take action, I would feel better if we were in the thousands, not the hundreds. How can we pass the 1000 barrier? The only way I see is to get out to the normal OB, lactation, and pregnancy community. Not those that are already on the natural forefront. 

Could you help? Do you have a contact at a hospital, OB practice, pregnancy or lactating web site or Facebook page? Please share this information with them, or send us the contacts. This information needs to hit the mainstream - our childrens' lives depend on it!

Have a great week.