Chronic Pain Linked To Vitamin D Deficiency In Men

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Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to a number of health issues. And now, a new study to be presented at a conference run by the British Society for Rheumatology suggests that low levels of vitamin D in the body are linked to chronic widespread pain.
The researchers note that in the UK, chronic widespread pain is a major public health problem, affecting around 1 in 5 people, and it can be caused by rheumatic and neurological disorders.
Also, around 50% of UK adults have a vitamin D deficiency, a condition that has been linked to osteoporosis and increased preeclampsia risk in pregnant women, among other outcomes.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), vitamin D is found naturally in only a few foods, including fish-liver oils, fatty fishes, mushrooms, egg yolks and liver. In the US, however, vitamin D is commonly added to food products, including milk.
But one of the best ways to get vitamin D in the body is through sunlight, which is transported to the liver and converted to 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
A Recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey has shown that these levels have decreased in Americans by about 10% from the periods of 1988-1994 to 2001-2006.
Not only is vitamin D crucial for good bone health, but it may also help with muscle strength and protection against cancer and type 2 diabetes.
Could treating low levels of vitamin D prevent chronic pain?
For this latest study on how inadequate amounts of the vitamin affect the body, researchers from the University of Manchester in the UK used data on over 2,300 men in the European Male Ageing Study.

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[Frosted]

Our milk in the UK isn't fortified. You can't get anywhere near enough vit D from food anyway.
You cannot produce vitamin D most of the year even if you strip off and sit in the sun all day...you'll only get UVA which is cell damaging radiation. The UVB that is required for vit D production is only available when the sun is high in the sky or when your shadow is shorter than you. So that's about 4 months of the year. Most people are D deficient in the Northern latitudes or even in hot countries where people cover up in the sun or wear a lot of sun cream.

At this time of year you'll find me mostly in my back garden doing my weights outside in my knickers.....until those feckin wasps arrive.

[Skell18]

At this time of year you'll find me mostly in my back garden doing my weights outside in my knickers.....until those feckin wasps arrive.

Still defying the ASBO then I see

[Frosted]

I ditched the bra.