Vitamin D deficiency is associated with several health conditions and data show it can raise your risk of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. STORY AT-A-GLANCE A study in a cohort of 12,388 persons showed that vitamin D exposure over 10 years could lower the risk of dementia by 40 percent; women in the study experienced a greater benefit than men.
There are 50 million people worldwide with dementia and experts estimate that number will nearly triple by 2050; vitamin D deficiency is also a widespread problem with a worldwide prevalence of up to 1 billion people.
Vitamin D has a neuroprotective effect, can reduce the percentage of people who move from prediabetes to diabetes and can help prevent and/or treat certain cancers, gastrointestinal diseases, uterine fibroids, lupus, obesity, and neurodegenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
There is a synergistic effect with magnesium, vitamin K2, and calcium and an imbalance may raise the risk of heart attack and stroke; the only way to determine how much sun exposure or supplementation you need is to test your vitamin D level. In this 18-minute video, retired nurse educator John Campbell details the results of a [March] 2023 study[1] demonstrating the effect that vitamin D deficiency has on the development of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. At this point, there is simply no question that optimizing vitamin D levels is a crucial part of maintaining optimal health….