There’s so much vitamin D news and headlines out there these days, it’s getting hard to keep up with! From what we can tell at our clinic, this is the type of PR that vitamin D deficiency deserves.

1. I really get excited when I see news reports like this. The focus of the report is on vitamin D and heart disease, there’s a good article to go along with it. The surprise of the cardiologist regarding the number of her patients she found with vitamin D deficiency is exactly what we experienced at our clinic!

2. Here’s a decent article about D deficiency, but what primarily caught my eye was this quote:

University of Washington heart surgeon Donald Miller Jr. tested 78 of his patients and found three-quarters had “insufficient” levels of vitamin D.

“It was really pretty shocking,” Miller said.

(That’s 2 separate shocked cardiologists in 2 articles!)

3. Vitamin D deficiency found it’s way into the New York Times - “The so-called sunshine vitamin is poised to become the nutrient of the decade…”