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How Much Vitamin D Does Your Body Need?
If you want to optimize your vitamin D levels, you'll need to know how much vitamin D you need in your diet to get there. You can get vitamin D from your diet and also after the sun stimulates your skin [more…]
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How is Vitamin D Measured in the Body?
If you want to know whether you have enough vitamin D in your body, you must have a blood test for 25-hydroxyvitamin D. Depending on where you live, you may have trouble convincing your doctor to order [more…]
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Preventing Heart Attacks Resulting from Vitamin D Deficiency
Adequate levels of vitamin D may control or prevent coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, and heart failure. A heart attack may result when these conditions aren’t treated. Researchers are trying [more…]
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Understanding the Role of Vitamin D in Depression
Vitamin D may play a role in several brain disorders that cause depression, so is it any surprise that people have looked for a role for vitamin D in depression? Depression, which psychiatrists officially [more…]
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Watching for Vitamin D Deficiency in Children
Adequate levels of vitamin D are essential for children before birth, after birth, and throughout childhood to ensure the proper development of bones and teeth. If they get enough vitamin D throughout [more…]
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The Role of Vitamin D in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that affects the synovial joints between bones. Vitamin D intake may modulate RA, because calcitriol modulates the adaptive immune system. Like all autoimmune [more…]
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Is There a Connection between Vitamin D and Fibromyalgia?
Much more investigation is necessary before the role of vitamin D in fibromyalgia, if there is one, is established. Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition associated with pain in the muscles and bones, as [more…]
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Getting Enough Vitamin D before and during Pregnancy
Women should ensure that they have a satisfactory level of vitamin D both before and during pregnancy. Pregnant adult women and nursing mothers need 600 IU of vitamin D every day, and teen mothers need [more…]
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The Role of Vitamin D in Protecting against Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer generally has a poor prognosis because of its location in relation to other critical organs. Studies suggest that vitamin D may play an important role in fending off pancreatic cancer [more…]
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What Is the Right Amount of Vitamin D for a Newborn Baby?
Although a newborn baby doesn’t need as much vitamin D as required by the pregnant or nursing mother, she continues to need sufficient vitamin D. Bones, organs, and critical structures in the brain are [more…]
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Managing Your Weight with Vitamin D
In our increasingly overweight society, weight management has become an important concern. Substantial information suggests that vitamin D plays a role in fat cell biology and that this may relate to weight [more…]
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Vitamin D Overdose: Symptoms and Examples
Overdosing on vitamin D isn’t easy, but it is possible if you’re taking supplements. In contrast, your body doesn’t allow overdosing from the sun alone. When your vitamin D levels reach a high, potentially [more…]
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Checking Out Vitamin D's Role in Type 2 Diabetes
Some studies suggest that maintaining high vitamin D status may be important for protection from type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is 20 times more common than type 1 diabetes, and the incidence is rising [more…]
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The Role of Vitamin D in Boosting the Immune System
Vitamin D may have a role in boosting the immune system and helping your body fight off nasty infections such as the flu and tuberculosis. Many books have been written about the positive effect of sunlight [more…]
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Vitamin D, Calcium, and Bone Health in Seniors
When seniors comply with their recommended calcium intake and their vitamin D levels are sufficient, bone fracture risk is significantly reduced compared to seniors who don’t get enough calcium or have [more…]
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Looking at Vitamin D's Role in Asthma
Some evidence suggests that vitamin D may play a role in preventing asthma. Asthma is a common condition in the United States and throughout the world. Seven percent of Americans, about 22 million people [more…]
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How Vitamin D May Help You Avoid Heart Failure
Evidence shows that heart failure is associated with low blood levels of vitamin D. When a person suffers from heart failure, the heart is unable to pump enough blood to supply the needs of the body. Heart [more…]
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The Best Natural Food Sources of Vitamin D
You might think that you'd be able to get enough vitamin D by eating animals and plants that are rich food sources of vitamin D; however, it’s not that simple. With rare exceptions, the vast majority of [more…]
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Looking at Vitamin D's Role in Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is exceedingly common in the United States, occurring in one of every four people, or 75 million Americans. Vitamin D may be used to help prevent or treat high blood pressure. Only [more…]
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Examining Vitamin D's Effect on the Brain
Recent studies suggest that vitamin D may play a role in brain development and brain health from birth to old age. Interesting new associations link high vitamin D status to the prevention of certain psychiatric [more…]
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Clearing Up Common Myths about Thyroid Health
Thanks to the Internet, you have access to incredible amounts of information about your thyroid. Unfortunately, much (perhaps most) of it is not accurate. Much of what you read online is based on the experiences [more…]
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Getting to Know Alcohol Options for Diabetics
Alcohol is a chemical that has calories but no particular nutritional value, although it has been shown that a moderate amount (a glass or two of wine a day) may reduce the risk of a heart attack. Notice [more…]
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Taking Your Blood Pressure Correctly
Your blood pressure can be taken with a mercury blood pressure gauge, an aneroid manometer, or an electronic device for measuring the blood pressure, as long as the device has been recently calibrated [more…]
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How to Prevent or Reduce High Blood Pressure
If you’ve been diagnosed with prehypertension or high blood pressure, like millions of others, adopt these changes to help prevent, or lower, high blood pressure to a healthy level. Doing these things [more…]
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What Are the Major Sources of Vitamin D?
Outside the body, vitamin D comes from three major sources: the sun, food, and supplements. Sunlight is considered to be the best source of vitamin D for your body, followed by foods that contain vitamin [more…]
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