{"id":20034,"date":"2018-10-18T22:11:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20034"},"modified":"2024-06-28T04:05:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:05:38","slug":"why-a-vitamin-d-test-is-more-important-than-a-mammogram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20034","title":{"rendered":"Why a vitamin D test Is more important than a mammogram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-20035\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Vitamin_D_Containing_Foods-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Vitamin_D_Containing_Foods\" width=\"741\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Vitamin_D_Containing_Foods-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Vitamin_D_Containing_Foods-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Vitamin_D_Containing_Foods.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>October is national Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the U.S. National Mammography Day is October 19. Vitamin D optimization could potentially eliminate a vast majority of breast cancers, yet this key information is completely ignored by conventional breast cancer awareness campaigns<\/p>\n<p>Most cancers occur in people with a vitamin D blood level between 10 and 40 ng\/mL, and the optimal level for cancer protection has been identified as being between 60 and 80 ng\/mL<\/p>\n<p>Research shows having a vitamin D blood level above 60 ng\/mL lowers your risk of breast cancer by more than 80 percent, compared to having a level below 20 ng\/mL<\/p>\n<p>Recent research shows postmenopausal women who receive a diagnosis of breast cancer are more likely to have low vitamin D and be overweight than women who receive a negative diagnosis<\/p>\n<p>This year, do your breast health a real favor and get your vitamin D level checked. One of the easiest and most cost-effective ways of doing this is to enroll in the D*Action Breast Cancer Prevention project, which now includes both vitamin D and omega-3 testing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/health-healing\/why-a-vitamin-d-test-is-more-important-than-a-mammogram\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/health-healing\/why-a-vitamin-d-test-is-more-important-than-a-mammogram\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October is national Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the U.S. National Mammography Day is October 19. Vitamin D optimization could potentially eliminate a vast majority of breast cancers, yet this key information is completely ignored by conventional breast cancer awareness campaigns Most cancers occur in people with a vitamin D blood level between 10 and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20034\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why a vitamin D test Is more important than a mammogram&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50974,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20034\/revisions\/50974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}