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VIDEO: Carole Baggerly - Vitamin D, Which Health Benefits Does It Provide?

July 14, 2009 - 3:12pm 209 reads 0 comments

Carole Baggerly describes the health benefits associated with vitamin D.

Carole Baggerly:
Everything – absolutely everything. Dr. Heaney made a very good quote on one of his things saying, “Vitamin D is the enabler that allows our DNA structures to do what they were meant to do.”

It affects cell growth, cell death. It affects getting down to a more deep level. It affects everything from breast cancer, which I am a breast cancer survivor. It helps prevent breast cancer. It helps prevent recurrence of breast cancer, hypertension, every, almost every possible disease, certainly all of the big ones that we are familiar with, are affected by vitamin D.

About Carole Baggerly:
Carole Baggerly is the founder and director of Grassroots Health, a non-profit organization promoting vitamin D awareness. After her own experience with breast cancer and osteoporosis, she learned the connection among these diseases and vitamin D deficiency, which triggered her role as an advocate.

Visit Carole Baggerly at Grassroots Health

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