{"id":38145,"date":"2022-04-08T08:54:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T22:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=38145"},"modified":"2022-04-08T09:07:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:07:37","slug":"new-vitamin-d-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=38145","title":{"rendered":"New Vitamin D Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-38148\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vitamin_D_Hospital_Stay-300x272.png\" alt=\"Vitamin D Hospital Stay\" width=\"580\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vitamin_D_Hospital_Stay-300x272.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vitamin_D_Hospital_Stay-1024x930.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vitamin_D_Hospital_Stay-768x697.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vitamin_D_Hospital_Stay-1536x1395.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vitamin_D_Hospital_Stay-2048x1860.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">A recent study by the University of Tampere in Finland has found that\u00a0vitamin\u00a0D helps to prevent respiratory infections. In the study, supplementing with\u00a0vitamin\u00a0D resulted in more than half the participants who took it staying healthy throughout the trial, compared to just over 30 percent in the control group.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Dr. Ilkka Laaksi and her team evaluated a group of 164 males going into the military to see if\u00a0vitamin\u00a0D\u00a0supplementation affected their overall health. They gave part of the group 400 international units (IU) of\u00a0vitamin\u00a0D\u00a0a day for six months, and the other part of the group a placebo pill for the same period of time. Those who took\u00a0vitamin\u00a0D\u00a0experienced greater overall health and fewer respiratory infections than those who did not.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Though 400 IU of\u00a0vitamin\u00a0D\u00a0a day meets minimal recommended government intake recommendations, many in the medical profession are now realizing that this level is far too low to offer much therapeutic effect. We suspect that if a higher dose had been used in the study, the effects would have been even more significant.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">This hypothesis was illustrated in a recent Japanese study that administered 1,200 IU doses of\u00a0vitamin\u00a0D\u00a0to schoolchildren. Those who took this dose every day had a much lower chance of developing influenza than others.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by the University of Tampere in Finland has found that\u00a0vitamin\u00a0D helps to prevent respiratory infections. In the study, supplementing with\u00a0vitamin\u00a0D resulted in more than half the participants who took it staying healthy throughout the trial, compared to just over 30 percent in the control group. Dr. Ilkka Laaksi and her team evaluated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=38145\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Vitamin D Evidence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38149,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38145\/revisions\/38149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}