When the sun is out, your body can potentially make its own vitamin D, but it still may make sense to continue with ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: I have heard different recommendations from different sources regarding vitamin D. One doctor told my husband that everyone living in the Northern Hemisphere should take a ...

Not getting enough vitamin D may lead to problems with completing everyday tasks later on in life. A new study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism revealed that older people with ...

Obese teenagers need significantly more vitamin D than their leaner counterparts, say researchers in a new US study which suggests that current recommended guidelines are sorely insufficient. Accor… ...

People in Florida, California, and Arizona are walking around with low vitamin D levels despite living in what should be vitamin D paradise. The problem is that we’ve been oversimplifying how ...

"Vitamin D acts as a hormone in the body and too much of it can lead to a number of problems." "Smaller amounts (400 IU) are recommended in the first year of life," she told Fox News Digital.

Usually, vitamin D has to be converted into a 25-hydroxyvitamin D (calcidiol) to be used by the body, but in the case of obese people, this does not happen. So the researchers in this study have ...

WASHINGTON — The nation’s largest medical lab company says it recently discovered and fixed a problem that led to inaccuracies in a small number of tests for vitamin D deficiency. Quest ...

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Q: About five years ago, I began to suffer severe pain in my left hip and leg. It was agonizing when I lay in bed. I had to crawl on my hands and knees to climb stairs. Physical therapy did not ...

ANN ARBOR -- A new study links low vitamin D in young girls with early menstruation, which is a risk factor for a host of health problems for teen girls as well as women later in life. Researchers ...

November 2 was Vitamin D Day, a day to create awareness about vitamin D deficiency. I have to admit that I was surprised to learn that we have a world-wide vitamin D deficiency problem and that we ...