Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, helps your body to absorb calcium, phosphate, and magnesium to build bone, produce energy, and support an array of other metabolic processes in the body. In many ways it acts like a hormone and possesses powerful anti-inflammatory properties.
Low blood levels of vitamin D have been reported as a risk factor for breast cancer. Vitamin D deficiency is significantly widespread in patients with triple negative tumors and may play a beneficial role in the prevention and management of breast cancer.
Research is telling us that for men receiving androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer, Vitamin D supplementation may help prevent bone loss.
Men, with the lowest levels of vitamin D are at greater risk of getting prostate cancer.
Vitamin D deficiency is extremely common among dark and brown skinned individuals. Vitamin D deficiency may cause African-American men to experience more aggressive prostate cancer and higher death rates at a younger age.
Studies suggest Vitamin D supplementation can prevent prostate cancer, and may actually slow or reverse low-grade prostate cancer.
