A Fat D-Ficiency! Do You Really Need More Vitamin D or Simply More Fatty Foods? Study Shows, Even 50.000 IU of Vitamin D3 Useless, When You Ingest It Without Fat.

 Image 1: Fatty fish and organ meats aside, whole eggs and full-fat dairy are your best food choices to raise vitamin D levels - I would e...

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Vitamin D & PUFA - Is There an Overlooked Antagonism Between Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Vitamin D3?

Image 1: Do not write off all the "good" foods until you read the full blogpost, including my comment at the end (image by ADAM ) ...

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Strengthless Gains: HMB+Arginine+Lysine Build Muscle. Strength Gains Require Vitamin D Levels >30mg/mL

Image 1: I wonder, why gerontologists don't use plain BCAAs - too convenient? If, as I hope, you are a regular visitor of the SuppVersi...

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There Are Two Sides to Each Coin: Vitamin D Increases Insulin Sensitivity in Obese, Yet Decreases it in Lean Mice

I am probably repeating myself, but I cannot emphasize enough that a common fallacy of medical research is the focus on pathologies. A recen...

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9.600 IU Vitamin D Required to Get 97.5% of a Study Population to Serum 25(OH)D Levels of At Least 40ng/ml

I refrained from posting each and every study on vitamin D that has been published within the past weeks - nothing new or exciting there + ...

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1.200 IU Vitamin D Won't Raise 25OH-D Levels Enough to See Beneficial Effects on Markers of Cardiovascular Health

In the course of the last weeks, I have refrained from posting each of the 1001 studies on vitamin D that appear in the myriad of medical ma...

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Vitamin D Deficiency Impairs Learning

They keep coming, and I keep repeating myself: vitamin D is the most interesting "novel" supplement out there. A recent study Mohs...

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Vitamin D: 1 Billion People Worldwide Are Vitamin D Deficient or Insufficient

Actually, I must say that I am surprised: It has been days, almost weeks since my last blogpost on Vitamin D. After all the individual findi...

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Further Evidence: Sunlight Alone is Insufficient to Rise Vitamin D Levels in Non-Western Immigrants

Wicherts et.al. ( Wicherts. 2010 ) published the results of an investigation into the effectiveness of a) sun exposure or b) supplementation...

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16 Weeks Vitamin D @ 2.000 IU per Day Effective Against Artherial Stiffness, But Without Effect on Body Composition

Although news on possible benefits from Vitamin D supplementation crowd in on a daily basis, trials, not done with post-menopausal women, ar...

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Vitamin D Deficiency in Athletes: Stress Fractures & Cancer

A very recent investigation by Naama et.al. ( Naama. 2010 ) found that, even in the sun-blessed middle east, there exists a high prevalence ...

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