UCR.edu - Anthony Norman, a leading international expert in vitamin D, proposes worldwide policy changes regarding people’s vitamin D daily intake amount in order to maximize the vitamin’s contribution to reducing the frequency of many diseases, including childhood rickets, adult osteomalacia, cancer, autoimmune type-1 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, obesity and muscle weakness.
“A reduction in the [...]

UCR.edu - Vitamin D surfaces as a news topic every few months. How much daily vitamin D should a person get? Is it possible to have too much of it? Is exposure to the sun, which is the body’s natural way of producing vitamin D, the best option? Or do vitamin D supplements suffice?
In the [...]

New and updated guidelines on recommended vitamin D intake have been published this week in the online issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).
Dr. David Hanley, professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, and member of Osteoporosis Canada’s (OC) Scientific Advisory Council, is the lead author of the paper on behalf of [...]

URMC.Rochester.edu - Within the human digestive tract is a teeming mass of hundreds of types of bacteria, a potpourri of microbes numbering in the trillions that help us digest food and keep bad bacteria in check.
Now scientists have found that the vitamin D receptor is a key player amid the gut bacteria – what scientists [...]

A new study adds to the mounting evidence that older adults commonly have low vitamin D levels and that vitamin D insufficiency may be a risk factor for the metabolic syndrome - a condition that affects one in four adults. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society’s 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.
“Because [...]

USDA.gov - There is new evidence of a link between vitamin D levels and higher-order cognitive function (or “executive functions”), according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-funded scientists.
Cognitive function is measured by the level at which the brain is able to manage and use available information for activities of daily life. Alzheimer’s disease, the most common [...]