Vitamin D Benefits for Everyone: More than Strong Bones
Vitamin D is known for its crucial role in keeping bones strong and healthy. But ongoing research is proving that it benefits the brain as well as the bones, and may actually help prevent a host of illnesses including diabetes, asthma, heart disease, and even cancer.
Vitamin D plays an essential role in the metabolic process, [...]
What is Vitamin D and What are Vitamin D Benefits?
Vitamin D is a unique fat-soluable vitamin that is essential to the body’s absorption of calcium. It has long been established that one of the primary vitamin D benefits is bone strength, but new research shows that it may play a major role in a host of other health concerns as well.
Three-Fourths of US Teens and Adults Deficient in Vitamin D
Over the past decade vitamin D, long known as a key to bone strength, has also been linked to prevention of a host illnesses, ranging from cancer and heart disease to asthma. But during that same period, a dramatic trend to vitamin D deficiency has spread to as much as three fourths of the adult US population.
Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Obesity and Chronic Pain
Could a deficiency of Vitamin D be linked to both obesity and chronic pain? A new Mayo Clinic Study says yes on both counts.
The study focused on patients who were being treated for chronic pain and who had been prescribed narcotic pain medication. The results showed that patients who had low Vitamin D levels required [...]
