The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problem

by Michael F. Holick

Book Overview

"This information can save your life. Really."--Christiane Northrup, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Goddesses Never Age and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom Many Americans have succumbed to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594630674
• ISBN13: 9781594630675
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Hudson Street Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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A must have!!

Incredibly informative. I originally borrowed this book from the library. It's so good I HAVE to buy my own copy. I borrowed it to teach my children more in depth about the importance of good nutrition to one's health, and got so much more. A tantalizing dessert for the brain. Treat yourself to this book and you won't be sorry.

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A Major Wake Up Call

If The Vitamin D Solution gets the attention it deserves, it could have a greater benefit for public health than all the drugs on the market today, except perhaps antibiotics. In this book, Dr. Holick presents overwhelming scientific evidence that vitamin D plays a crucial role in the body's immune system, mood, brain and heart health, and weight and strength. He also shows that vitamin D deficiency is epidemic in the northern hemisphere and is a central player in the prevalence of conditions like diabetes, cancer, stroke, fibromyalgia, osteoporosis, depression and many more. Dr. Holick's scientific credentials are impeccable, and even the mass media are beginning to climb on the bandwagon and talk about vitamin D supplements. Sunshine is free, but a combination of lifestyle and scare tactics about skin cancer has made us shun its life-giving benefits. One of the most sobering statistics in this very readable book is that for every one person who might die because of skin cancer due to over exposure to the sun, 55 people will die due to lack of vitamin D - the sunshine vitamin made by our skin. He gives detailed recommendations about vitamin D supplementation as well as for how to strike an optimal balance for sun exposure with minimal risk. The book is full of fascinating case studies and research reports that delight a medical nerd like me. One of the most fascinating to my mind was the role of vitamin D in ensuring communication among cells. One of the characteristics of cancer is the breakdown of this communication, allowing cells to go rogue. Sounds like a metaphor for society... I really think that everyone who works indoors all day needs to read this major wake-up call.

An authoritative reference on the nutrient that could revolutionize healthcare

Learning about vitamin D from Michael Holick is like learning the art of magic from Harry Houdini. Greatly reducing the likelihood chronic degenerative disease such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes (and many more) is easier than you think once you know the secret. Although no supplement, diet, exercise, or lifestyle change can completely eliminate risk, The Vitamin D Solution will give you incredibly powerful, life-altering information that's as easy as getting some sensible sun exposure or popping a safe, inexpensive pill. Michael Holick, the world's leading expert on vitamin D, is your guide on this journey of discovery. His pioneering efforts in that field go back to his days as a graduate student when he synthesized the active form of vitamin D, finding it to have extraordinarily powerful therapeutic effects. His contributions as both a scientist and practitioner have made profound advances in every aspect of vitamin D research. Dr. Holick has been a tireless researcher, advocate, author, educator, and legendary lecturer for over 30 years. He stands as the most prolific author of articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals including the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. I have a few predictions. The latter 2/3 of the 20th century will become known as the dark ages, when they demonized the sun, a situation that led to untold suffering and literally millions of largely preventable deaths. Dr. Holick will emerge as a central figure ushering in a new age where sunlight and vitamin D (along with other well-known lifestyle changes) eradicate millions of needless cases of chronic disease. Mainstream medicine will embrace the preventive and therapeutic power of vitamin D, and for his pivotal role bringing about the sea change in the practice of medicine, Dr. Holick will earn a well-deserved Nobel Prize. You heard it here first. Dr. Holick contends that vitamin D deficiency is the most common medical condition in the world. Being both a researcher and clinician gives him tremendous insights to fortunate readers of this excellent reference. The book opens with two hypothetical pre-teen girls, one living in poverty near the equator and the other living a typical middle class American lifestyle. The list of diseases and medical conditions that are far more common for the middle class girl is shocking. It is no longer debatable that sunlight and vitamin D play major role in preventing a long list of serious chronic diseases, a reality that is becoming more and more accepted by the medical community. Ideally you should read the entire book in linear fashion, but even if you open the book to random pages you'll find useful information everywhere, such as a new model of cancer that can't grow in a vitamin D-rich environment (page 87); the role of vitamin D in preventing Parkinson's and Alzheimer's (page 140); how vitamin D repairs pancreatic beta cells and thus is an important tool in the fight against diabetes (pa

A MUST READ

This book is without a doubt and eye opening learning experience about the power of Vitamin D, and the harmful effects on our body when we are deficient in Vitamin D. I couldn't put this book down. I already take 2000 I.U. of D per day as prescribed by my Dr. As of this reading, I have now incorporated more time outside in the sun, as natural D from sunlight lasts far longer in the body than supplements alone. Great book, you won't be disappointed. Very enlightening.

Finally! Hope for Sun Worshipers Everywhere!

Did you know that vitamin D is actually a hormone that we need to survive? Renowned author, Andrew Weil, MD wrote the Foreword to this strongly-supported, lifetime research project for author Michael F. Holick, PhD, MD. //The Vitamin D Solution - A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problem// is, in my opinion, the definitive work on better health. Sun worshipers everywhere will love the methodology and rationale for improved wellbeing with increased vitamin D hormones into our everyday lives. Dr. Holick claims to have cured both humans and animals on death's door with vitamin D supplement treatments. His research is irrefutable. His arguments are plausible. In the first part of his book, Dr. Holick covers the need for vitamin D, the evolution of it and asks all the questions we might have as inquisitive readers. The second half of this book, he tackles how to practically obtain it in our lives. He easily discusses the sun as the number one source of vitamin D disproving the claims of skin cancer from over-exposure. He also addresses many other diseases such as Diabetes, Arthitis, Fibromyalgia, all kinds of cancers and heart disease. This simple vitamin, when administered correctly can give anyone better vigor and better health. A must-read for us all!

Great details on benefits of vitamin D

After reading 7 books and over 2,000 articles on vitamin D during the past 4 months I still had many notes to take when reading this excellent book. Sometime I took the notes were because Dr. Holick presented the information in a way that I could finally understand, and in other cases the information was new to me. Three pages of my notes are at VitaminDWiki dot com. The Power of Vitamin D probably provides a better first book on this subject.