Archive for the 'Vitamin D' Category

Vitamin D Deficiency Associated with Retinopathy

A new study from the School of Women’s and Children’s Health at the University of New South Wales in Australia examined the link between Vitamin D Deficiency and retinopathy in children and adolescents.  The findings are not extremely surprising for people who understand just how important Vitamin D is for the human condition. The study concluded that Vitamin D Deficiency [...]

Vitamin D and Diabetes

Vitamin  D has recently emerged as an incredibly powerful vitamin that plays a role in so many parts of the body that it shouldn’t be called a vitamin at all. It really is a steroid pre-cursor hormone and is vital to proper body function. The role it plays in auto-immune disease is important to note for [...]

Vitamin D Cuts Chance of Type 1 by 30%

An interesting news article is getting some coverage in the news about Vitamin D and its relation to Type 1 Diabetes in a new study done in the UK. The study was done in Manchester at the St. Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children. The effect was dose-dependent and should certainly be of interest to [...]

Vitamin D Cuts Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes

In a great study recently published in Diabetes Care, Vitamin D was shown to dramatically reduce the chance of developing Type 2 Diabetes. The study is found here- Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentration and Subsequent Risk of Type 2 Diabetes. The study followed over 4,000 individuals for 17 years and people with low 25-Hydroxyvitamin D concentrations [...]