Most people don’t consciously think about bone health.  It may come to mind when an elderly family member or friend has been diagnosed with osteoporosis, a disease that causes bones to become weak and brittle and likely to fracture from a minor fall.  In reality, bone health, which refers to the amount and quality of bone, starts in childhood.  Bone mineral content increases 40-fold from birth till adulthood and about 40%-60% of all adult bone mass is accrued during the adolescent years. Individuals who obtain a higher peak bone mass in youth will be better protected against fractures and osteoporosis later in life.  Peak bone mass remains relatively stable from age 20 up to age 50, after which bone mass

Vitamins play a crucial role in the human body’s metabolism and these exotic molecules are essential for the proper functioning of cells in the body.  Vitamins are organic chemicals that must be obtained from dietary sources, as the body does not make vitamins.  Theory has it that somewhere along the process of evolution, our bodies have lost the ability to make vitamins, so instead we need to obtain them from our diet.  Of course there would be one exception to prove the rule, and in the case of vitamins, it is Vitamin D, which our cells in the skin can make if there is enough sunlight.  No wonder it is referred to as the “sunshine vitamin”. The epidermal layer of

Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to more severe illness and an increased fatality rate due to COVID-19, the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Observational studies at the AZ Delta General Hospital in Roeselare, Belgium, at the Hospital Universitario Marquis de Valdecilla in Spain, as well as at the M L B Medical College in India, have found that a significant number of COVID-19 patients presented with vitamin D deficiency at admission. In Spain over 80% of 216 COVID-19 patients, in Belgium 59% of 186 patients, and in India 58% of 154 patients included in the observational studies were vitamin D deficient.  In Belgium, the admission of COVID-19 patients with vitamin D deficiency (below

More and more research papers are supporting the vital role of Vitamin D in optimal health and disease prevention.  Vitamin D affects your DNA through vitamin D receptors, which bind to specific locations on the human genome – nearly 3000 genes in the human body are influenced by your vitamin D level –  hence the very wide involvement of this vitamin in many functions and overall health of the human body. The well established role of vitamin D is that it is responsible for the absorption of calcium from the human gut.  However, we know today that vitamin D plays even a wider role in the human body.  Many receptors for vitamin D have been found in the human brain,