Landmark Health Study Suggests Taking Vitamin D Supplements

May Prevent Thousands of Cancer Cases in Canada Each Year

“The most important cancer prevention study ever published” says InspireHealth

MEDIA RELEASE
VANCOUVER, BC (June 8, 2007) – Vancouver-based InspireHealth – Canada’s leader in
integrated cancer care and prevention - today announced that a newly-released U.S. study,
which provides evidence that Vitamin D substantially reduces the risk of cancer development, is
the most important cancer prevention study ever published.

The study released today by researchers from Creighton University in Nebraska is a doubleblind,
randomized placebo-controlled trial – the highest standard in medical research, and is
being published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

“The study shows that in women over 55, Vitamin D supplementation may be able to reduce
cancer incidence by 60 per cent. That’s a staggering finding,” said Dr. Hal Gunn, M.D.,
Co-Founder and CEO of InspireHealth. “Translated into numbers, more than 35,000 Canadian
women could be saved from getting cancer each year. If Vitamin D is helpful for younger
women and men as well - which seems likely based on other evidence - the numbers are even
greater. This is remarkable for something as simple as Vitamin D supplementation.”

Physicians at InspireHealth, aware of the growing body of research supporting the use of
Vitamin D in recent years, have been prescribing Vitamin D for cancer prevention and
treatment for the last 10 years since InspireHealth’s founding in 1997. “Over the last 15 years,
there has been a growing body of research showing that Vitamin D plays a very important role
in the prevention of cancer of the colon, breast, prostate, lung, stomach, bladder, pancreas,
uterus and ovary,” said Dr. Gunn. “This new study proves that link, and demonstrates that
Vitamin D supplementation may provide a simple means to prevent the majority of cancer
cases.”

“In short, this study clearly indicates for the first time, we may have a simple and effective
means to prevent the majority of cancer cases, and put an end to the cancer epidemic that has
plagued the western world for the last century,” said Dr. Gunn. “The Vitamin D study is a
landmark study in cancer prevention.”