Is the hype surrounding vitamin D 'wishful' thinking? What you should know:
and dangerous falls. But recent research has challenged several of those promising roles and revealed how little is really known about the essential nutrient.
“It’s been a hot topic for about 10 years,” says Kelly Pritchett, PhD, a registered dietitian who studiesat Central Washington University in Ellensberg, WA. “But there are a lot of different trains of thought about what’s optimal.” In 2014, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a federally funded panel of health experts, said there was no common agreement on how to definehave become more popular. Two decades ago, fewer than 1% of U.S. adults took them, according to a 2017 study. But less than 15 years later, nearly 1 in 5 adults took one every day. Why?
“The bottom line is, there’s a lot of wishful thinking,” says vitamin D researcher Clifford Rosen, MD, the director of clinical and translational research and a senior scientist at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute in Scarborough. “Whatever sounds good is often what people like to use.
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