Your Power Pack - Vitamin D3
In his forward to a book by Dr. Michael Holick, The Vitamin D Solution, Dr. Andrew Weil (M.D.) says: "Increasing the amount of Vitamin D in the body can prevent or help treat a remarkable number of ailments, from obesity to arthritis, from high blood pressure to back pain, from diabetes to muscle cramps, from upper respiratory tract infections to infectious diseases, and from fibromyalgia to cancers of the breast, colon, pancreas, prostate and ovaries. It can safeguard pregnancy, support ideal weight management, reduce abnormal cell growth and stave off infection and chronic diseases! Who would not want these benefits?"
In her book, Powerful Medicine, Dr. Lucinda Messer (M.D.) says: "Vitamin D deficiency is a world-wide epidemic with over one billion people at risk for its associated diseases. A deficiency in Vitamin D is the main reason we have skyrocketing incidence of Cancer, MS, Diabetes, Osteoporosis, Depression, Seasonal Affects Disorder, Autism, Hypertension and more."
If you're into sports, you might find this quote very intriguing: "Vitamin D gives athletes a definitive advantage over their competitors...improves muscle tone, muscle strength, balance, reaction time and physical endurance as well as immunity and general health." That was from The Athlete's Edge: Faster, Quicker and Stronger with Vitamin D by Dr. John Cannell (M.D.).
