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Decoding Vitamin D: Could you be getting too little or too much?

June 3, 2015 by Sharon Horesh Bergquist Leave a Comment

Sunlight and vitamin DThe main role of vitamin D is to keep your bones healthy, primarily by helping you absorb intestinal calcium. In recent years, however, vitamin D deficiency has gained a lot of attention for being associated with a long list of diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to diabetes mellitus, depression, dementia, colds, multiple sclerosis, and premature death (Click for Benefits of Vitamin D video).

As a result, many physicians, including myself, have been screening for vitamin D deficiency in people who are at risk—such as those who get limited sun exposure without sunscreen, have dark skin, are older, or obese—and have been recommending vitamin D supplementation. Continue Reading...

Filed Under: aging healthy, Prevention Tagged With: Vitamin D, Vitamin D and cancer, Vitamin D and heart disease, Vitamin D and longevity, Vitamin D supplement

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