With the amount of positive research coming out about vitamin D, maybe I should just name this blog the ’sunshine vitamin spot’. According to research published in the June, 2008 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, those patients who have the lowest levels of vitamin D have a 200 percent higher risk of death than those who have the highest levels of vitamin D.
The study looked at 3,258 patients who had an average age of about 60 and divided them up into 4 quarters based upon their vitamin D levels. Those in the quarter with the lowest vitamin D levels (median=7.3 ng/ml) had twice the risk of dying over a period of about 7 1/2 years compared to those who were in the quarter with the highest vitamin D levels (median=28.4 ng/ml).
While this study doesn’t necessarily prove that vitamin D levels extend your life (for that you would have to supplement one group of patients with vitamin D and not supplement another group and then compare their death rates several years later), I do believe that it is enough reason to recommend keeping your vitamin D level at an optimal level between 32-100 ng/ml.
For more on how to maintain optimal levels of vitamin D, see http://www.drmaheshwari.com/wordpress/2008/06/22/how-much-vitamin-d-do-you-need-for-optimal-health/
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With the amount of positive research coming out about vitamin D, maybe I should just name this blog the ’sunshine vitamin spot’. According to research published in the June, 2008 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, those patients who have the lowest levels of vitamin D have a 200 percent higher risk of death than those who have the highest levels of vitamin D.
The study looked at 3,258 patients who had an average age of about 60 and divided them up into 4 quarters based upon their vitamin D levels. Those in the quarter with the lowest vitamin D levels (median=7.3 ng/ml) had twice the risk of dying over a period of about 7 1/2 years compared to those who were in the quarter with the highest vitamin D levels (median=28.4 ng/ml).
While this study doesn’t necessarily prove that vitamin D levels extend your life (for that you would have to supplement one group of patients with vitamin D and not supplement another group and then compare their death rates several years later), I do believe that it is enough reason to recommend keeping your vitamin D level at an optimal level between 32-100 ng/ml.
For more on how to maintain optimal levels of vitamin D, see http://www.drmaheshwari.com/wordpress/2008/06/22/how-much-vitamin-d-do-you-need-for-optimal-health/
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