New findings that may lower your risk of a deadly cancer

Researchers have just made a remarkable discovery about a simple thing you can do that may slash your risk of bladder cancer.

Bladder cancer is a stealth disease that is expected to strike close to 80,000 Americans and kill over 16,000 – and those are just the numbers for this year.

And on top of surgery, radiation and chemo, those with advanced cancers often have their entire bladder removed. For men, that also includes cutting out the prostate… and for women, their ovaries.

So you would think any findings on how to lower our risk would be broadcast far and wide.

But that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Instead, what’s making headlines is something that might very well raise your risk of developing this deadly cancer.

‘A global concern’

An opinion piece just published in JAMA has taken the media by storm, generating headlines such as “Widespread concerns over vitamin D called groundless,” or “Don’t worry about getting more vitamin D.”

Don’t worry! Are the two docs from Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital who wrote that article serious?

And all this nonsense started right after some important new findings were released about vitamin D and bladder cancer.

Researchers from the University of Warwick in the UK found that when you’re low on vitamin D, you have a higher risk of this devastating cancer.

It appears that the cells lining the bladder wall will start up a very strong immune response when exposed to vitamin D. That, in turn, can give the body a chance to mount an attack on abnormal cells forming in the bladder before they turn into cancer.

And that finding was observed in practically all the studies these researchers reviewed.

I’ve been giving you the good news about D for years now — how it helps to keep our bones and brain strong, regulates the functions of over 200 genes, helps to prevent cancer, and supports heart health… And that’s just for starters!

But here’s the thing. While the amazing benefits of vitamin D are certainly well known, a deficiency in this sunshine vitamin is practically a given. Or, as Harvard University put it, “a global concern.”

Experts at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health say that worldwide, around one billion people don’t have enough D circulating in their blood. And if you don’t get outside in the sun (without sunscreen!) for at least 15 minutes a day — or are older or African-American, have darker skin or happen to be overweight — it’s pretty much a given your D levels are subpar.

And if that’s not enough to get us thinking about this, the feds also said several years ago that three-quarters of Americans (teens and adults) are deficient.

But none of that appears to faze those Boston researchers, who somehow have decided that less than 6 percent of Americans should be worrying about their vitamin D levels. To make it even more ridiculous, they’re also saying we should wait until 2018 for the results of a study to find out if the vitamin can lower our risk of major diseases.

Believe me, there’s no reason to wait!

The good news here is that a vitamin D deficiency is simple to correct. Get outside on sunny days and put more fatty fish in your diet (such as wild salmon, sardines or tuna), along with eggs, milk and yogurt.

And a D3 supplement is about the cheapest vitamin you can find!

“Low vitamin D levels may raise bladder cancer risk: study” HealthDay, November 8, 2016, consumer.healthday.com