Study Shows Late Shift Has Increased Risk Of Cancer

In a recent study, people that work the night shift were shown to have increased risk of breast and prostate cancer. While some people believe this new study is somehow out of whack, to me it proves once again that Vitamin D could be the real answer to keeping cells from regenerating too fast inside of our bodies to the point they eventually turn into cancer tumors. There has been evidence in previous studies that a lack of Vitamin D, which is mainly converted in the body from sunlight, could be an underlying cause of some types of cancer. From my layman's point of view, there could be a link between people that work the late shift and a lack of Vitamin D flowing through the body. Some Vitamin D proponents have been urging, without success, the government to raise the daily amount of Vitamin D the public should receive to over twice the amount that is currently recommended.

For several decades the threat of skin cancer has caused most people in the medical community to encourage people to avoid the sun as much as possible. However, this short sighted approach may have done more harm than good. While skin cancer is easily treated in it's early stages, other types of cancer are not. As a person that has worked the late shift for years, I can personally attest to the fact that most night workers sleep during the day and what little sun they do receive is usually late in the afternoon when the UVB rays they need to naturally produce Vitamin D are at their weakest.

For almost one year now I have been supplementing my daily Vitamin D consumption to a total of 1000 IU's per day. Since few unsupplemented foods contain Vitamin D, most people will not receive enough of this vitamin without supplementation or 15 to 20 minutes of midday direct sunlight exposure, daily. Even the most notable food product that is supplemented with Vitamin D, milk, has also been under attack in recent years by some food extremist which encourage adults not to drink milk. While most people in the medical community continue to ignore the mounting evident that Vitamin D does something in the body to prevent out-of-control division of cancer cells, I believe that it is better to be safe than sorry when it comes to daily consumption of Vitamin D.

While I am not convinced that increasing daily consumption to 100,000 IU's or more of Vitamin D is safe, there is little doubt that 1000 IU can be safely added to our daily regiment, especially if a person works at night and receives little to no daily midday direct sunlight. I am not a scientist or doctor, so the opinions expressed here are only my personal observation's which have been learned from dedicated reading of the Vitamin D/Cancer issue. There are countless studies that can be found by searching the Internet and I encourage everyone to do so at their earliest convenience.

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