Vitamin D deficiency is often accompanied by symptoms and diseases that are casually dismissed as “old age.”
What sometimes appears to be rapid physical and cognitive deterioration associated with aging, vitamin D proponents argue could be avoided with supplementation. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and depression. A majority of the population worldwide is vitamin D deficient.
Unlike other conditions, vitamin D deficiency has no clear list of symptoms because it’s not a diagnosis in itself—but a root cause. That means its symptoms—like fatigue, weakness, brain fog, and anxiety accompany a plethora of diseases that coexist with vitamin D deficiency, which may even be lurking with no symptoms at all. By the time you experience bone pain, you’re likely severely deficient in vitamin D….