Posts Tagged ‘Vitamin D’
Vitamin D is no doubt one of the most important items for our body but are we getting the desired amount of vitamin D? Some of the experts of Vitamin D have answered this question and it is ‘No’ for majority of the population.
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In the July 2010 issue of Endocrine Today, Anthony Norman, a distinguished professor emeritus of biochemistry and biomedical sciences and an international expert on vitamin D notified that more than half of people in North America and Western Europe gets insufficient amount of Vitamin D.
The Vitamin is actually present in very few foods like cod liver oil, fish and eggs, in the other foods like orange juice, milk, yogurts’ and other breakfast items it is present in the fortified form.
According to Norman “There is a wide consensus among scientists that the relative daily intake of vitamin D should be increased to 2,000 to 4,000 IU for most adults” and further “A 2000 IU daily intake can be achieved by a combination of sunshine, food, supplements, and possibly even limited tanning exposure”.
The Vitamin D deficiency is a very common problem nowadays and almost everyone knows that this problem is caused by inadequate exposure to right kind of sunlight or some kind of liver/kidney disorders but the modern science has shown some new and different results regarding this deficiency.
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According to new study the genetics could help us in determining a person’s risks of getting vitamin deficiency.
The overall analysis on this issue was carried by a team of researchers who focused on group of people who were specifically the white men and women of European descendant.The findings of the team were revealed online in advance of publication in an upcoming print issue of The Lancet. The researchers actually conducted quite a high tech genetic analysis of the participants and thus locate some specific points on their genome that were linked to the Vitamin D deficiency.
You might be aware of the multiple benefits of vitamins and your physician might have suggested multiple vitamins for you but here a new Research has confirmed some very exciting facts or we can say benefits of taking Vitamin D and Calcium in your food, the major one is that it protects your bones from fractures and even if you have fractured bone they can also helping in making them as strong as before.
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This whole study was published in the BMJ, called for additional studies for Vitamin D especially for Vitamin D at higher doses without calcium.
The researchers analyzed the data from almost 68,517 people who are averaged at the age of 70, the research has also suggested that taking vitamin D alone is not the cure but taking it with Calcium will give remarkably good results for the protection against fractures.
US researchers found insufficient levels of vitamin D in 55 percent Parkinson’s patients, while these levels were 36 percent in healthy elderly people. Now the scientists are trying to know that the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease can be eased with vitamin D supplements.
The researchers from Emory University do not find yet whether vitamin D deficiency is a cause of developing Parkinson’s or not.
The study has been published in the journal Archives of Neurology.
Due to Parkinson’s nerve cells gets affected in many parts of the mind and especially in those parts that use dopamine (chemical messenger) to control movement. Read the rest of this entry
