Vitamin D: The New Aspirin Against Cancer?

Vitamin D has the potential to become the “new aspirin“, the little inexpensive pill that may be able to block the development of some cancers, strengthen bones, prevent multiple sclerosis and alleviate winter depression.

Such were the findings of a new Canadian study:

But it’s not science fiction. The “new aspirin” could be Vitamin D. Just as we discovered that aspirin can guard against heart disease, Vitamin D could become a useful weapon in the fight against MS, osteoporosis, mild depression and one of the most devastating diseases of our time – cancer.

“As time has gone by, Vitamin D has raised its head as a sort of ambrosia for cancers,” says Dr. Louise Parker, an epidemiologist and a world expert in the environmental exposures that can lead to cancer. Or, in the case of Vitamin D, the lack of exposure.

“One of the most important sources of Vitamin D is from the sun and through your skin,” says Dr. Parker.

Wow, that is really promising and worth watching out for if that is really the case.

While it is true that the most important source of Vitamin D is exposure to the sun, the harmful UV rays of the sun predisposes us to skin cancer.

Will the Vitamin D in pill form circumvents that problem?

Find more details from Dalhousie University.