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Vitamin D may slow down prostate tumor growth

 

A new study suggests that giving vitamin D supplements to men with rising

rates of prostate tumor markers (PSA) seems to slow down their rate of tumor

growth.

 

It is a small study and this is very preliminary evidence, but doctors do

see a connection between vitamin D levels and PSA levels. " The PSA levels seemed

to reflect the seasonal variation in vitamin D levels, " Dr. Lawrence Klotz, a

urologist at Canada's Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Center.

 

Researchers followed 190 men for the study. They found that overall, their

PSA levels were flat during the summer, but rose during the fall and winter at

the rate of about one percent each month.

 

The doctors then gave the men 2,000 International Units of vitamin D

during the fall and winter months to see what would happen. Interestingly, the

vitamin D seemed to cut the rise in PSA rates by more than half. Without vitamin

D, PSA rates rose by about five percent. With vitamin D, PSA rates only rose by

two percent.

 

" As far as I know, there is no other nutrient studied that has shown a

slowdown in the rate of rise of a PSA. " said Reinhold Veith, a professor at the

University of Toronto and a leading researcher in the field of vitamin D

research.

Jerry Mittelman, DDS, FAPM (Retired)

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