New Vitamin D Study Says It Does Not Reduce Risk of Falls
A new vitamin D study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), has revealed that vitamin D does not reduce your risk of falling.¹ In fact, it may increase it! At least that’s what it seems like on the surface… What The Study Found When It Came to Falls This one-year, double-blind, randomized clinical trial, conducted in Zurich, Switzerland, included 200 men and women. There were three study groups with monthly treatments of vitamin D3: The high-dose group received 60,000 IU/month of vitamin D3. The middle-dose group received 24,000 IU/month of vitamin D3, plus 300 mcg of pre-formed calcidiol. (This is the form of vitamin D3 after activation in the liver. This makes it 5 times more potent than D3, but still not in its final hormonally active form) The low-dose group received 24,000 IU/month of vitamin D3.…