The End Of Illness

The End Of Illness will change the way you think about health by focusing on the systems within your body instead of the diseases that affect them, thus helping you make better-informed decisions to stay on the path of good health.

People tend to get excited about new food studies. Take vitamin D, for example. Multiple studies showed that a large proportion of the population is actually deficient in it. This is important because it reduces the risk of everything from cancer to Parkinson’s.

Upon learning this, many people went to get their levels tested. Some people even just bought pills to be safe. This trend has seen vitamin D sales skyrocket. But what people don’t understand is that these studies aren’t perfect, absolute truths.

In fact, we should see them with a little bit of healthy skepticism. Studies are designed to apply to your average person. However, this definitely doesn’t mean they apply to everyone. Sometimes research is done in a petri dish or on an animal rather than a human being. This is why we should determine how they got to their conclusion before we jump to our conclusions.

In vitamin D, though many studies show the benefits, there are actually drawbacks in certain populations. One study found that elderly individuals who took a higher vitamin D supplement had a larger risk of falling and fracturing bones. This is just one example of why it’s important to understand that different people might need different health solutions.

Many people take vitamins every single day. It’s easy to see why— we know vitamins are essential for our health. Vitamins help our bodies perform various functions, and because we can’t produce them ourselves, we need to obtain most of them from food. There are 13 vitamins we need to function properly. Before we knew the importance of vitamin C, soldiers died in huge numbers during the war because of scurvy. Most people then considered it an infectious disease. However, we now know it’s caused by a deficiency of vitamin C. which we can easily get from citrus foods. But though they are essential to our health, many people don’t realize that a vitamin deficiency is actually rare in the modern world. Sure, vitamin supplements don’t usually cause any problems, but they aren’t vital if you eat a healthy and balanced diet. Humans need 30 milligrams a day of vitamin C to ensure they don’t get scurvy, which is the amount found in just half an orange. So it’s pretty easy to get this amount of vitamin C. But did you know many multivitamins contain up to 1,000 milligrams of the vitamin? Because so many Americans take some supplement, it is a…