Auhtors: Wimalawansa SJ PMID: 37371637 PMCID: PMC10295227 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11061542 Abstract Vitamin D is essential for life-its sufficiency improves metabolism, hormonal release, immune functions, and maintaining health. Vitamin D deficiency increases the vulnerability and severity of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, obesity, and infections. The active enzyme that generates vitamin D [calcitriol: 1,25(OH)2D], CYP27B1 (1α-hydoxylase), [...]

Auhtors: Bischoff-Ferrari HA, Willett WC, Manson JE, Dawson-Hughes B, Manz MG, Theller R, et al. PMID: 35821820 PMCID: PMC9261319 DOI: 10.3389/fragi.2022.852643 Abstract Objective: The aim of this study was to test the individual and combined benefit of vitamin D, omega-3, and a simple home strength exercise program on the risk of any invasive cancer. Design: [...]

Auhtors: Munoz A, Grant WB PMID: 35406059 PMCID: PMC9003337 DOI: 10.3390/nu14071448 Abstract This is a narrative review of the evidence supporting vitamin D's anticancer actions. The first section reviews the findings from ecological studies of cancer with respect to indices of solar radiation, which found a reduced risk of incidence and mortality for approximately 23 [...]

Auhtors: Carlberg C, Velleuer E PMID: 34411566 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2021.114735 Abstract Uncontrolled overgrowth of cells, such as in cancer, is an unavoidable risk in life that affects nearly every second individual in industrialized countries. However, in part this risk can be controlled through lifestyle adjustments, such as the avoidance of smoking, unhealthy diet, obesity, physical inactivity [...]

Auhtors: Wimalawansa SJ Abstract Globally, the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency is high, and the incidence is rising. This common micronutrient disorder is easily reversible; so, as the associated morbidity and mortality among affected people. The incidences of vitamin D deficiency continue to increase and have become a pandemic, mostly because of insufficient exposure to [...]

Authors: Murai IH, Fernandes AL, Sales LP, Pinto AJ, Goessler KF. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.16.20232397 Abstract Importance Patients with COVID-19 may exhibit 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency, but the beneficial effects of vitamin D3 supplementation in this disease remain to be proven by randomized controlled trials. Objective To investigate the efficacy and safety of vitamin D3 supplementation in patients [...]

Auhtors: Bischoff-Ferrari HA, Vellas B, Rizzoli R, Kressig RW PMID: 33170239 PMCID: PMC7656284 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.16909 Abstract Importance: The benefits of vitamin D, omega-3 fatty acids, and exercise in disease prevention remain unclear. Objective: To test whether vitamin D, omega-3s, and a strength-training exercise program, alone or in combination, improved 6 health outcomes among older adults. [...]

The COVID-19 disease course is strikingly divergent. Approximately 80-85% of patients experience mild or no symptoms, while the remainder develop severe disease.

Authors: Arvinte C, Singh M, Marik PE PMID: 32964205 PMCID: PMC7499070 DOI: 10.1016/j.medidd.2020.100064 Abstract Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has placed an enormous and growing burden on the population and health infrastructure, warranting innovative ways to mitigate risk of contracting and developing severe forms of this disease. A growing body of literature raises the issue of [...]

Until treatment and vaccine for coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) becomes widely available, other methods of reducing infection rates should be explored. This study used a retrospective, observational analysis of deidentified tests performed at a national clinical laboratory to determine if circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels are associated with severe acute respiratory disease coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) positivity rates.