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Written by Rohaan Solare on Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:36 - 1 Comment
VITAMIN D: THE MOST IMPORTANT VITAMIN SUPPLEMENT FOR DISEASE PREVENTION
Vitamin D should be considered a super vitamin. Research findings over the last few years have put this inexpensive nutritional supplement in the superstar spotlight. Taking vitamin D, a very safe vitamin supplement, can dramatically reduce your chances of getting a major disease and or chronic health condition.
It was only a few years ago that scientists finally figured out why we tend to come down with colds and flu’s more often in the winter than at any other time of the year. They found out that our blood levels of vitamin D drop in the winter as a result of less exposure to sunlight.
Researchers also found out that vitamin D plays an extremely critical role in the immune system and that the incidence of disease prevalence increased the farther north one lived. Those findings led to increased studies and the realization that the value of vitamin D in disease prevention cannot be underestimated.
What Vitamin D protects against….
Colds and flu, prostate cancer, heart and artery disease, Parkinson’s disease, breast cancer, organ health, diabetes, prenatal dental health (link below), depression, cognitive health, diabetes, kidney disease, colon cancer, high blood pressure, chronic pain, osteoporosis and cancer in general
Who is Vitamin D deficient and how much should I take?
The research has shown that most of us are vitamin D deficient. Chances of deficiency are greater if you don’t get enough sunlight, live in northern latitudes or don’t eat the right foods. Combine all of those factors and you can be sure you are deficient. Current RDA guidelines are way behind the times recommending a measly 200 IU’s per day for children and 400 IU’s for adults. The current research suggests an supplemental dose of 2000 to 3000 IU’s per day for teens and adults. Those with chronic conditions of compromised immune systems can consider 5000 to 10,000 per day. The Vitamin D council sells vitamin d blood monitoring kits for those interested in more precision.
Dosages of up to 10,000 IU’s are considered safe without a doctors supervision, but not recommended for extended periods without blood level monitoring. Vitamin D toxicity is extremely rare. One would need to take about 40,000 IU’s daily over a period of months if not years to develop health problems as a result.
Testing is available for those who want to be sure of their precise vitamin D blood levels. Otherwise 2000 IU’s per day day is commonly recommended by health professionals for disease prevention and optimal health. Those of you with family histories of disease and chronic health condition should consider testing in order to make sure you have optimal levels of vitamin D in your system.
Womens health and Vitamin D
Pregnant women with low levels of vitamin D will adversely affect the dental health of their children.
Low vitamin D in pregnant women is also linked to Schizophrenia.
Vitamin D deficiency has been implicated in irregular menstruation cycles and infertility.
Low levels of vitamin D are also associated with breast cancer incidence and osteoporosis.
Young Children, Teens and Vitamin D
Teenage children should be getting up ten times the amount of current RDA levels or about 2000 IU’s daily.
Researchers have also found that Vitamin D insufficiency in pediatric patients is implicated in low bone density and may predispose one to osteoporosis in later life.
It seems that one type of diabetes is less common in those who received extra vitamin D as children.
Infants who are breast fed should get additional supplementation as breast milk tends to be low in Vitamin D. The article goes on to suggest that all toddlers and young children receive vitamin D supplementation.
Learn More
For more information on Vitamin D check out The Vitamin D Council.
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Anticipating Personal and Collective Shifts in Relation to MMAC Time Science
The word shift is commonly used in reference to the motifs associated with the 2012-“End of the Mayan Calendar” phenomena (2012-MC). The expectations of those most realistically attuned to the mytho-symbolic significances of 2012-MC sense that there are large scale socio-cultural shifts in the works. Emergent-Culture.com is essentially dedicated to the planet wide socio-cultural movement (planetary culture) that I believe lies at the heart of the “co-incidence” between the end of the 5125 year Maya Long Count Cycle and the unprecedented levels of socio-economic turbulence seen all around the world.
The notion of mere “coincidence” is dispelled once one understands what the Ancient Mesoamericans (Maya, Toltecs, Olmecs, etc) discovered about the nature of time and reality. I use the the term Ancient Mesoamericans because precolumbian Mesoamerica was home to upwards of 80 different tribes and most followed the same calendrical system. Additionally the Maya were not the first to use the core of the Mesoamerican calendrical system—-the tzolkin cycle. Although they were the ones who developed Mesoamerican calendrics to its highest degree. I also prefer to use Ancient Mesoamericans because it helps differentiate between present day Mesoamericans and those who lived in Middle America prior to the European invasion.
Since it was the ancient ones who were responsible for the development of Maya-Meso-American Calendrical system. (MMAC)
And What is Time?
In the Western world time is a very muddled concept. Western science is only now beginning to acknowledge that their classical conception of time is ill defined, overcomplicated and just plain wrong. Have a look at Wikipedia’s treatment of time to get a taste of what I mean. Time has been so misunderstood that Western scholars have written entire books about the subject without reaching any kind of conclusion or consensus about what time is.
Those of you familiar with my writings on time and Mesoamerican calendrics (calendar/time science) know that from my vantage point, time is nothing more than movement and that’s how the Ancient MesoAmericans (AMA) saw it as well. Albeit a special kind of movement.Something I call ordered movement. There are various definitions of time and many are useful, but I’m talking about time in the most fundamental of terms. Time is not the fourth dimension as Einstein believed.[…]
[NOTE: The foregoing paragraphs serve as an introduction to a chapter on my developing book on The Legend of 2012. The remaining text below this note is the tail end of the chapter where I show how one may apply MMAC time science to one’s life in order to anticipate significant personal life events, and as a way to self validate what I consider to be the most profound and universally relevant cosmology (worldview) presently available. It is universally relevant because it applies to everyone regardless of whether one believes in it or not. It is universally relevant because it’s a mesocosmically scaled cosmology and that means that you don’t need to understand equations or use special tools to observe and appreciate, e,g. microscope, telescope.
The chapter goes on to develop the idea of time as ordered movement/change and of how the earth’s basic movements translate into the scheduled and sequential movements of all organisms. The mechanism is detailed down to the DNA molecular level in an attempt to show how all of life unfolds to the beat of some cosmic piper. The piper’s “musical score” is intrinsic to the earth’s movements, the workings of DNA code and all human activity in general. I suggest that the Ancient Mesoamericans discerned the cosmic score from their study of astronomical and earthly cycles both overt and subtle. Some cycles are so subtle that no other culture discovered them. The most subtle of these cycles were encoded into their Tzolkin cycle calendar.
I also relate the tzolkin and genetic codes and then show their relationship to the implicate and explicate orders that the Physicist David Bohm describes in his Holomovement cosmology. This article focuses on a particular type of movement we call a shift or transition. These shifts happen at predictable time scales because the growth and development of all organisms happen according to timing constants built into the very fabric of our reality. It seems that the AMA discovered those constants. The following excerpt tells you how to apply those constants.] click here to read entire article
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Speaking of vitamin D, it functions a specific way in your body that researchers have considered it a hormone. It is involved in an important task known as the mineral homeostasis that deals with the regulation of the gene expression and also that of cellular differentiation.