Why You Need Sufficient Levels Of Vitamin D
So a few months ago, I talked about the many various positive protective effects of vitamin D: radiation, skin cancer (how’s that for irony?), Rheumatoid Arthritis and many others. Well, vitamin D has been on my mind a bit more lately (you’ll soon see why) and I have come across some more info on the benefits of vitamin D.
For starters, height and body fat in adolescent girls is affected by vitamin D status:
Approximately 59% of subjects were 25OHD insufficient (≤29 ng/ml), and 41% were sufficient (≥30 ng/ml). Strong negative relationships were present between serum 25OHD and … measures of visceral and sc fat… In addition, weight, body mass, and imaging measures of adiposity at all sites were significantly lower in women with normal serum 25OHD concentrations than women with insufficient levels. …there was a positive correlation between 25OHD levels and height.
The demarcation line of “sufficient” is quite low as well, so no telling what we’d see with people that have levels in the 40, 50, or 60 ng/mL range.
It’s been found before that …
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