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Article: Why Your Patients Need More Vitamin D After Age 45 (Part 1 of 2)
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- Dynamic Chiropractic
- Article date:
- June 3, 2004
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Vitamin D acts in the body as both a vitamin and a hormone, exerting a powerful influence on maintaining bone density and preventing vital steps in the development of breast, prostate and colon cancers (and possibly others). There is also evidence to suggest that more optimal vitamin D levels can reduce the risk of multiple sclerosis by affecting immune system function.
Throughout younger adult life, supplementation of 400 IU of vitamin D per day from a high-potency multivitamin/mineral, combined with the normal amounts most people acquire from fortified dairy products and fish, is usually adequate to maintain blood levels of vitamin D in a range that is associated with healthy bone ...
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......healthy children in a study had low blood levels of Vitamin D and some were so deficient that...to 21, had inadequate levels of Vitamin D in their blood. That number...as they age, so their levels of Vitamin D have declined, said Babette...
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