Colorectal cancer kills approximately 50,000 people in the United States per year. That’s a lot of lost lives!
People with higher levels of vitamin D in their bodies are 72 percent less likely to die from colorectal cancer, according to a new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
than those who began the study with the lowest levels of the nutrient.
In addition to acting as an essential nutrient, vitamin D may inhibit the growth of tumors or even kill cancerous cells as prior research has indicated.
National Institutes of Health experts Cindy Davis and Johanna Dwyer warned that vitamin D supplementation is not the end-all of cancer prevention.

Vitamin D can be toxic in high concentrations, but toxicity cannot result from sunlight exposure, because the body ceases production when the needed bodily levels have been reached.
How much do you need ?