By Mike Montemarano, Associate Editor05.06.22
Daily supplementation with vitamin D3 and/or an omega-3 fatty acid supplement containing both EPA and DHA, along with a simple home exercise program, may cumulatively reduce the risk of all types of cancer, according to a study recently published in Frontiers in Nutrition.
Known as DO-HEALTH, this three-year, multicenter, double-blind, randomized-controlled clinical trial recruited 2,157 community-dwelling older adults. The authors specifically focused on older adults within an age range in which cancer incidences markedly increase, and examined the outcomes of supplementation with these two nutrients along with exercise both separately and in combination, as very few studies have taken this multi-pronged approach to date.
The participants were randomized into several groups, in order to investigate the role that daily supplementation with standard dosages of 1,000 IU vitamin D or 1 g of omega3s (which contained 500 g of EPA and DHA in a ratio of 1:2) could play on their own, or
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