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(Health-NewsWire.Net, December 10, 2015 ) New York, NY -- Vitamin D is essential for every living beings be it humans or your dogs. While we as humans can soak under the sun or pop a vitamin supplement as compensation for the lost vitamin D, dogs, however, work entirely different and get only few amounts of vitamin D from sun. This means all the vital vitamins should come from their diet.
Vitamin D is crucial for your dogs since they are solely responsible for absorption of minerals such as phosphorus, calcium etc. that can affect large functions in the body.
On the contrary, too much of vitamin D is risky for your pet. Over the years many commercial pet food owners add vitamin D in the animal feed that not only trigger health risks such as hypercalcemia but can also prove fatal. Here is a list of diseases that are associated with low levels of vitamin D.
As you can see that six of the studies have been linked to low vitamin D and cancer. And now new research shows that 75% of dogs do not have enough 25VitD.
How is vitamin D linked with cancer?
In the year 2014, scientists published a study that showed that 2VitD is quite low in dogs and associated with various types of cancer than dogs who were fit. Dogs should have 100-120 ng/ml of Vitamin D in their blood to fight the cancerous cells or other immune diseases.
But wait, there is more.
While it is said that the above study claims that dogs with cancer have low vitamin D, the study does not say that low levels of vitamin D can increase the risk of cancer. This could mean that cancer or any other disease can reduce the dog's ability to derive vitamin D from their diet.
Here is a diet that might just show that.
During 2004, researchers measured the amount of vitamin D in dogs with lymphoma (a type of cancer), hyperparathyroidism and kidney failure. It was concluded that dogs with these diseases had low levels of vitamin D than healthy dogs.
Another set of researchers came up with a study in 2011 British Journal of Nutrition regarding the relation between vitamin D and cell tumors. They claimed that labrador with mast cell tumor had less 25VitD than labradors without tumors.
They even checked the dietary food consumption that dogs ate. It resulted that labradors with cancer were getting just as much as vitamin D from their food as the dogs without any cancerous cells.
So if 25VitD doesn't seem much related to dietary vitamin D does it remain the same in both healthy dogs and those pets dealing with cancerous issues? If so how can we conclude that dogs needs more vitamin D in their diets or even a more 25VitD in blood?
Currently there are no methods to determine that increasing vitamin D can cut down the cancerous risk in body although as above there are few evidences here and there to say that cancer can reduce the dog's ability to produce 25VitD.
Prevention is always better than cure. There are natural remedies for dogs around the corner that will give the pet owners an extra boost for their dog's immune system. They work naturally without any side effects and helps in flushing out free radicals from your dog's body.
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