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Spurred on by the article I posted earlier concerning high levels of bowel cancer in the U.K., I began researching further. It didn’t take too long to discover that there is a direct relationship between low levels of Vitamin D and bowel cancer.

In fact the evidence is overwhelming and has been studied quite extensively in the USA, UK and Finland. A world authority on Vitamin D is Dr. Cedric Garland. I have included here a video of one of his talks on the subject.

So why don’t other researchers find and look into these things? There are likely a number of reasons. Vitamin D does not require a doctor’s prescription, and it is freely available from sunlight exposure. So funding on Vitamin D research is not significant as there is no return on investment for such research. Technically the ability to measure vitamin D levels commercially, outside the research labs, has only been in place for about ten years. So if your doctor went to medical school before this time it is likely that Vitamin D was not a focus of study, and is only a very minor part of your doctor’s knowledge base.

If we add to this the fact that for 20+ years the medical establishment has been telling you to cover yourselves with sunscreen as sunlight is a danger to your health, then we can begin to see why Vitamin D has lost favor, and why there appears to be a deficiency of vitamin D amongst the populations of the developed world.

However Dr. Cedric Garland and others have very convincing evidence that adequate levels of Vitamin D can prevent at least 80% of bowel cancer and breast cancer, and perhaps other cancers. In addition for those already with cancer Vitamin D may also be an effective therapy.