A new story about Vitamin D, Could Vitamin D Save Us From Radiation?. I don't even post most of the stuff on Vitamin D that shows up in my RSS. I have to wonder: is there some industry group pushing this? I know that there are often fads for "miracles cures" and biochemical silver bullets.
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Winter is upon us and so is the risk of vitamin D deficiency and infections.
I dont understand people who view food as medicine.
Well, I mean, I guess I do. Theyre terrified of disease X/Y/Z (even if X/Y/Z is treatable/preventable with modern medicine), and they think a component of food helps treat/prevent disease X/Y/Z, so they religiously eat said food.
Over at the NYTimes Well blog they have a really good summary of studies about vitamins and improvements to health.
I got interested in vitamin D a few years ago because I was trying to figure out a plausible explanation for why many of the genetic variants implicated in lighter skin seem to have risen in frequency relatively recently, 10,000 years ago, when modern humans have been extant at higher latitudes o
I work at a very reputable research lab in Boston, and they are conducting a lot of NIH funded vitamin D research.