Vitamin D and sunshine - marketing, science and health issues

The doctor most responsible for creating a billion-dollar juggernaut has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the vitamin D industry. (2018)

Outside of rare cases, rigorous studies of the supplement don’t find any health benefit. (2018)

After years of debate, a major government funded study failed to find any overall benefit of taking widely used supplements to protect against hear... (2018)

You can’t get adequate UVB exposure sitting indoors or in a car. (2019)

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... (2019)

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... (2020)

A review of the best trials on Vitamin D. Results have been disappointing. Vitamin D deficiency is linked to cancer, heart disease, respiratory ... (2020)

Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said most "so-called immune boosting supplements" actually do "nothing." However, there are two vitamin... (2020)

Are you getting enough vitamin D? Research suggests it could help protect you from an adverse Covid-19 outcome, though more study is needed. (2020)