Page 46#10. The question of Supplements
People sometimes ask (maybe without voicing the question): “Will vitamins and
minerals save me?”
The answer is NO. It would be like closing the stable door after the horse has
bolted.
But there is every reason to supplement your diet with good nutrients, including
simple prorietary multi-vitamin and mineral formulas. Just be realistic about what
to expect.
Rather than me parading the value of numerous individual vitamins and minerals,
let me just say that I expect you to get plenty of everything. A good fresh food
diet will help too, with bags of antioxidants.
All this is in accordance with my “Cancer Rule #1:
every good health measure is an anti-cancer
measure.
Supplementing is a vast subject, all on its own. So I will just mention a few
specifics here, to get your started and to press home my point.
Good supplements will protect you from the dire effects of chemo and radiation.
Vitamin D has emerged as a truly vital anti-cancer nutrient.
A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in 2006 showed
that even small rises in vitamin D levels in the blood produced a dramatic
lowering of cancer risk. For 6 years nearly 50,000 men were followed, while
taking an average of 1500 IU daily. The results showed a 17% reduction in the
incidence of cancer, almost 30% reduction in overall cancer mortality and a
massive 45% reduction in deaths for bowel cancer.
Another study in the same year, involving more than 120,000 women
participating in two studies at Harvard University and Saint George’s Hospital
Medical School in London, showed that women with high levels of vitamin D were
50% less likely to get breast cancer; even those with moderately raised vitamin
D levels had a measurable 10% lower risk. Yet another study showed that