by Julie Rafferty, Tufts University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain How much vitamin D do we really need to preserve healthy bones and overall health? Do higher levels of vitamin D supplementation, as some studies suggest, reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, and respiratory infections? Or is the evidence still too limited? With...
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Vitamin D Supplements Cut Risk for Autoimmune Disease in VITAL
JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH February 16, 2022 Hello. This is Dr JoAnn Manson, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. I’d like to talk about recent promising research from the vitamin D and omega-3 in the prevention of autoimmune diseases (VITAL) trial, recently published in The BMJ . We tested vitamin D 2000...
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Vitamin D supplement ‘overdosing’ is possible and harmful, warn doctors
by British Medical Journal Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain ‘Overdosing’ on vitamin D supplements is both possible and harmful, warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports after they treated a man who needed hospital admission for his excessive vitamin D intake. ‘Hypervitaminosis D’, as the condition is formerly known, is on the rise and linked to a...