Currently, the U.S. RDA for vitamin D is 400 IU (international units) for the majority of the population. (IU is frequently shortened to just “units.”) This dose was recommended to prevent rickets, which works well, but does nothing to give the far more important protection from cancer...
It would also be quicker, safer, and potentially much less expensive. Dr. Mark Towler, a researcher at the University of Limerick in Ireland, found that disulphide bond levels (which are instrumental in binding protein molecules to each other) are lower in people who have been diagnosed with ...