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Hi everyone, this is Dr. Rishol.

Let's discuss if supplementing with vitamin D can decrease the incidence or your chances

of cancer or cardiovascular disease.

Now, we've all probably heard something about the health benefits of vitamin D supplementation,

and there is evidence to support, yes, that supplementing with vitamin D can improve your health.

However, it does appear that the health benefits of vitamin D supplementation have been over-exaggerated,

and this study actually helps kind of reinforce that conclusion,

which is essentially that vitamin D supplementation may not lead to all the benefits that you've been told that it will.

Now, I'll put this study up here on the screen.

This is a large study entitled, Vitamin D supplementation and Prevention of Cancer and Cardiovascular

disease.

They tracked over 25,000 patients for a number of years looking at the

incidence of cancers and cardiovascular disease over time in those supplementing with vitamin

D compared to placebo.

So this is a placebo-controlled trial.

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