Vitamin D may help prevent knee osteoarthritis

[Celebration]

http://in.reuters.com/article/health/idINTRE54S4LJ20090529

Low levels of vitamin D are associated with the loss of cartilage in the knee joint of older individuals, researchers in Australia report.

"Cartilage loss is the hallmark of osteoarthritis," Dr. Changhai Ding told Reuters Health. By the time patients reach the point of needing knee replacement, 60 percent of cartilage has been lost, he said.

However, "achieving vitamin D sufficiency in osteoarthritis patients could significantly delay total knee replacement," said Ding, at the Menzies Research Institute in Tasmania.

In a study, Ding and colleagues found "osteoarthritis patients with vitamin D sufficiency have approximately 1.5 percent less loss of knee cartilage per year than patients with vitamin D deficiency," said Ding.

[Juche]

1. low vitamin D levels have been tied into a variety of illnesses

Cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimers, metabolic syndrome, mental illness, type II diabetes and early death in general. Probably tons of other diseases too.

[CoffeeCat]

2. I think I've read six or seven articles...

...in the past two weeks about the amazing wonders of Vitamin D, and how a lack of it can
cause cancer, depression and other horrible maladies.

Got milk?

[4dog]

3. Milk won't do it

Get lots of sun or 5000 IU of D3 per day. Read at www.vitamindcouncil.org

[Abq_Sarah]

7. Most people just don't get enough from sun

And as you get older, your body loses the ability to produce the quantities you need.

I take a minimum of 5000 IU in gelcap form each day.

[noiretextatique]

4. kick for vitamin d

:kick: just got my latest vitamin d test results and mine level is extremely low. doc told me to boost my supplement from 2000iu to 5000iu for the next three months.

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[wuvuj]

6. Home test available....

http://www.grassrootshealth.net/