More on Vitamin D (????)

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Hi folks:

LOLOLOL:

Do people around here generally regard the 'Life Extension

Foundation' as a source of reliable information? I thought they

did. (If not then goto >>> end).

I just tripped over the following stunning (if true) piece of

information regarding vitamin D there (granted it is dated February

2000) by accident while searching for something else. Here is an

excerpt:

" Researchers in Japan fed rats a heart attack-friendly diet based on

vitamin D and cholesterol. (Vitamin D is used by researchers to

create heart disease in animal models. It causes rapid hardening of

the aorta. Vitamin D, along with cholesterol, creates both aspects of

human-like heart disease, i.e., hardening of the arteries and

lesions) " .

[Now it would hardly be startling, would it, to find that something

used to cause a nice hardening-up of the arteries in experiments with

mice would result in, perhaps dramatically, elevated SBP?]

Here is the page at LEF where that quote was found:

http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2000/feb00-report.html

Naturally the above does not come with a written guarantee. Anyone

with information that confirms or refutes it PLEASE post it. In the

meantime I am beginning to wonder if I am not a freak after all, LOL.

Rodney.

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