Here’s a few health benefit observations patients at our clinic have made regarding their taking vitamin D:

1. Most like it and don’t want to stop taking it. They report an improvement in their overall well-being. We’ve even had some folks not want to lower their dose when they’re told to do so based on their re-checked blood testing.

2. Several people have said they think that they’re getting fewer colds and flus since getting their D levels into the normal range. Here’s a recent study that supports this observation:

An article published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection reports on a three-year study of 208 African-American postmenopausal women (who are at great risk of vitamin D deficiency) who were supplemented with vitamin D or placebo. For the first two years the active group received 800 IU daily, which was increased to 2,000 IU daily in the last year of the study. In the three years of the study 34 patients reported cold and flu symptoms, eight in the supplemented group and 26 in the placebo group (p<0.002). This showed that participants who got a placebo had a 300-percent greater risk of having a cold or flu, and that vitamin D supplementation provided a highly significant protective effect.

Aloia JF. Epidemic influenza and vitamin D. Epidemiol Infect 2007;135:1095-1096.

3. Numerous patients have reported disappearance of muscle aches and pains. Several folks have also mentioned that if they miss a few doses they start to feel the aches and pains again.

4. For those with psoriasis and weak/brittle finger nails the D seems to substantially help. On a personal note, over the past several years I developed a dry/cracking skin problem on my hands. It had gotten to the point that I could barely do any manual labor without pretty severe cracking, bleeding and soreness, this problem is now 95% better since I’ve maintained good vitamin D levels.

5. Still others report feeling that they have more energy and less depression.

6. We’ve also seen some objective improvements with several patients fasting blood sugar tests.

This gives you the general idea about the type of feedback we’ve been getting from the patients at our clinic.

Have you noticed any benefits from taking vitamin D?

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