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Category Archives: 25-hydroxyvitamin D
Test Your Own Vitamin D Levels Without A Blood Test Part 2
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Test Your Own Vitamin D Levels Without a Blood Test
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Vitamin D and Calcium
Reading any medical or nutritional textbook it becomes apparent that vitamin D and calcium metabolism are intertwined. Vitamin D, actually a steroid hormone, is required for the correct absorption of calcium, and in this way, levels of vitamin D regulate … Continue reading
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Vitamin D Fortification of Foods
There is growing evidence that vitamin D levels are associated with a protection from a number of diseases. In particular diseases that centre on the development of insulin resistance such as the metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular … Continue reading
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Factors Affecting Vitamin D Levels
Vitamin D and its metabolites 25-hydroxyvitamin D and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D are involved in cell differentiation and cell regulation. This role as a steroid hormone, may explain the association between low levels of vitamin D and a number of Western lifestyle … Continue reading
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More On Vitamin D Deficiency
Vitamin D deficiency is known to lead to imbalances in calcium homeostasis, which can in turn cause osteomalacia in adults and rickets in children. In Western nations, the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency are quite rare, despite studies consistently showing … Continue reading
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Vitamin D and Insulin
Traditionally, the role for vitamin D in human metabolism has been seen to be one of calcium regulation. Vitamin D is actually a hormone, not a vitamin, and is synthesised endogenously in the skin from the action of ultraviolet light … Continue reading
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Vitamin D Reminder: Winter Is Coming
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Vitamin D and Osteoarthritis: More Evidence of Deficiencies
Vitamin D can be obtained from either the diet or from the sun. Good dietary sources of vitamin D are limited to those of animal origin, with the main source being the oils of fish. The animal form of vitamin … Continue reading
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Type 2 Diabetes and Vitamin D
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. As some evidence suggests that vitamin D may have insulin sensitising effects, these associations have been interpreted as providing evidence that higher plasma concentrations of the active vitamin … Continue reading
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