Vitamin D and sunshine - marketing, science and health issues
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The doctor most responsible for creating a billion-dollar juggernaut has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the vitamin D industry.
Outside of rare cases, rigorous studies of the supplement don’t find any health benefit.
You can’t get adequate UVB exposure sitting indoors or in a car.
Is it possible that we've been wrong about sunscreen all along? “Wouldn’t all those rays also raise rates of skin cancer? Yes, but skin cancer k...
Low vitamin D status in winter permits viral epidemics. During winter, people who do not take vitamin D supplements are likely to have low serum 25...
A review of the best trials on Vitamin D. Results have been disappointing. Vitamin D deficiency is linked to cancer, heart disease, respiratory ...
Are you getting enough vitamin D? Research suggests it could help protect you from an adverse Covid-19 outcome, though more study is needed.
Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said most "so-called immune boosting supplements" actually do "nothing." However, there are two vitamin...
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