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Hypothesis: Reduced sun exposure over past 40 years relates to more disease worldwide
Less sun = >Less Vitamin D => More disease
Less time outdoors
Air Conditioning
TV & internet & video games
Live in smoggy cities or in suburbs with little walking
Less work outdoors
Less sun when outdoors
Sunscreen - which blocks vitamin D
Protective clothing
Overview page for all reasons for low vitamin D
More disease (click on underlined diseases for more information)
Strong Proof that increase in Vitamin D decreases incidence
Breast Cancer, Diabetes*, Rickets, Pregnancy problems*, MS, Influenza, Falls/fractures, Osteopenia*, Osteoporosis, Cognition
* = TREATS successfully = "Controlled by" or "Helped by" or "Suppresses"
Associated with low Vitamin D for most people with the disease
Allergy, ALS, Anemia, Asthma, Autism, Cancers, Celiac, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Pain,
COPD, Dental, Depression, Headache, Heart Disease,HIV,Hypertension, IBD, Kidney, Metabolic Syndrome,
MRSA, Myopathy, Overweight, Parkinson’s, Psorasis, Sepsis, Thyroid, TB
Suspected relationship with low Vitamin D
Cystic Fibrosis, Liver, Lupus, Osteoarthritis, Rosecea, Vision
Vitamin D intervention trials - a long list - May 2014
See also at VitaminDWiki
- Proof that Vitamin D Works 93 as of June 2023]
- All items in category Evidence for Vitamin D
60 items - Many reasons why vitamin D deficiency is becoming epidemic
- Air Conditioning probably has decreased vitamin D
- All items of Meta-analysis of Vitamin D
658 items - Neighborhoods with more trees are healthier (vitamin D not mentioned) – July 2015
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