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- Body impedance can estimate body fat, and perhaps Vitamin D
- Type II diabetes 2 X more likely if poor Vitamin D Gene (CYP27B1)
- Hand, foot, and Mouth disease is 14X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor
- Vitamin D predicts good health and long life in seniors, review of 20 cohort studies
- 90 percent remission of recently diagnosed diabetes with a low-calorie diet
- Short sleep in seniors associated with low vitamin D – NHANES
- Smoking while pregnant resulted in 2X more likely to be Vitamin D deficient
- Hypothesis - Vitamin D is also activated, stored, and degraded in tissues (autacoid)
- Vitamin D levels of Iranians with MS is lowest in summer (avoid the hot sun)
- Parathyroid – Vitamin D inflection points might be at both 16 and 32 ng
- Simulated Mars trip ran low on vitamin D (no supplements, no UV)
- Low vitamin D was again associated with winter, females, obesity, smoking, sedentary
- 2017 Flu in Australia was bad and 79,000 died in US, 2019 Flu in Australia was worse (get flu shot AND Vitamin D)
- Lower Vitamin D if less food from the sea (Greenland in this case)
- Type 1 diabetes trial having problems getting participants – too many taking Vitamin D or Omega-3
- Metabolic Syndrome risk reduced 3.7 X by nuts (Magnesium, Omega-3)
- CPAP and Vitamin D - several studies
- Tuberculosis 3X more likely if less than 12 ng of Vitamin D - meta-analysis
- Women wearing hijab in tropics need at least 1 hour noon sun daily in summer
- Diabetes and pre-diabetes helped by Vitamin K in animal studies – review