Levels of this vitamin impact breast cancer outcomes

Levels of this vitamin impact breast cancer outcomes

What if an easy-to-correct nutrient deficiency could change your chances of a successful breast cancer outcome? It turns out vitamin D just might. New research explains:¹

• 64.9% of patients with breast cancer presented with severe vitamin D deficiency at baseline, and 89.5% had either deficiency or insufficiency.
• After treatment, they were grouped into three risk categories:
  • Low-risk: Patients with consistently sufficient vitamin D levels, and those whose levels improved over the course of treatment.
  • Medium-risk: Patients who remained consistently insufficient.
  • High-risk: Patients with persistent deficiency and those whose vitamin D status worsened over time.

Routine testing of vitamin D is an affordable and accessible way to possibly improve breast cancer outcomes, with many added benefits for overall better health.

Read more on using vitamin D for improved breast cancer prognosis.

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Bodies are cool!

When we sweat on a hot summer day or after a great workout, it’s not actually the loss of fluid that is cooling us down, it's the evaporation. When water converts from liquid to vapor, it pulls heat away from your skin’s surface, and that cooled blood near the surface is carried back to your core.

But, that whole system breaks down in high humidity. When the air is already saturated with water vapor, sweat can't evaporate efficiently—it just drips off. That’s why a hot-humid day feels so much more intense than a hot-dry one.⁴

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That’s it for the long game—thanks for playing. Have a great weekend!