Cancer Immunotherapy is enhanced by a Vitamin D loading dose

Cancer Immunotherapy is enhanced by a Vitamin D loading dose - Aug 2023

2 Reasons Vitamin D loading doses are good:
1) A loading dose provides the benefit of Vitamin D in <1 week instead of many months
2) A high concentration (loading dose) bypasses poor Vitamin D Receptors
     Note: Many cancers have "learned" how to deactivate the Vitamin D Receptor

• STUDY: Systematic vitamin D supplementation is associated with improved outcomes and reduced thyroid adverse events in patients with cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: results from the prospective PROVIDENCE study

• STUDY: Immunotherapy harnesses the power of the body's immune system to treat cancer - June 2016

• For which cancers is immunotherapy used? - Asked Chat-GPT Dec 2023

• VitaminDWiki – Cancer - After diagnosis category

• Also suspect better response by study if had used gut-friendly form of Vitamin D

• Suspect a better response by study if hadalso given loading doses to those with more than 30 ng of Vitamin D

• 28,600 hits in Google Scholar for search of immunotherapy & cancer & "Vitamin D"

• VitaminDWiki – Immunity category

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