Taking higher-than-recommended doses of vitamin D for five years reduced the risk of atrial fibrillation in older men and women, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.
    •  chaoticPuppies   ( @chaoticPuppies@beehaw.org ) English
      4•2 years ago

      I think a lot of depression symptoms are literally caused by constantly living indoors and not walking every day. We eat crap and live under unmanageable amounts of constant stress.

      I have been taking supplemental vitamin D for about a year and a half. It was prescribed because my levels were so low. I made a bunch of other quality-of-life improvements too, but I think getting enough vit D helped me to keep at it.

  •  coolin   ( @coolin@beehaw.org ) English
    1•2 years ago

    This study is interesting because Vitamin D has largely been shown not to have any impact in many other factors when it has been tested in randomized double blind trials with placebo control. e.g. Vitamin D is (largely) a placebo. This study actually shows in one of these trials that Vitamin D is effective over a placebo for AFib. I’d be interested to learn more about the mechanism that allows Vitamin D to help and if this study can be reproduced.

    Here is a good segment from MedLifeCrisis about Vitamin D in general