There is new evidence that the vitamin that is produced by the body when the body is exposed to sunlight, Vitamin D, may have benefits for breast cancer patients, which is part of an ongoing controversy about whether sunlight is any good for the body, and specifically, for breast cancer patients.  The reason this became an issue was that breast cancer patients that died of the disease had less of the Vitamin in their body than those who were still living and had battled it.

The statistic that was drawn from this evidence came to the conclusion that those with less of the vitamin in their body had a much higher chance of dying of breast cancer than those who had the vitamin in their blood.  The upshot of this finding is that some doctors are recommending sunlight exposure a couple times a week, without sunscreen so that the body can utilize the sun exposure for the production of Vitamin D, which is in fact a vital vitamin to the body that some are not getting enough of because of the use of extremely high SPF sunscreens today.

With all this information, scientists still aren’t saying they know how much Vitamin D is sufficient to prevent the return of lessen the severity of breast cancer, but they would like to work on that part.  They also say that Vitamin D supplements generally don’t profoundly affect the levels of the specific Vitamin D that was found to perhaps lengthen the life spans of those with breast cancer, which is the kind that is produced only from the sunlight by the body.

Vitamin D studies in animals does show promise for several types of cancer development though, showing that the vitamin helps to deter the spread of cancer and the formation of abnormal cancer cells, and hinders the growth of blood vessels which feed tumors, which is very promising to say the least.

They just need to get closer to how women specifically should use this knowledge to help prevent breast cancer and prolong their lives if they do have breast cancer, if there is even any way to stop it after it has already started, or whether Vitamin D levels had to be already present to prevent the cancer from worsening in the first place. 

 

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