Goal for Scottish athletes: none will be vitamin D deficient (typically 2 out of 3)

More than 60% of Scottish athletes suffer from lack of sunshine Herald Scotland

Dr Brian Walker, the head of sports medicine at the sportscotland Institute of Sport, has an active program for testing vitamin d levels.

Preparing for Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014 End of July

Did not mention how many of the following he will be using to get an adequate level

• Vitamin D supplements

• More sunshine (hard to find in Scotland)

• UV (tanning) booths (used by various UK sports teams)

• UV lighting added to lockerroom/classroom

  Note: The article did not mention what they consider an adequate level to be

• 10 ng – UK

• 20 ng – US and many countries

• 30 ng – many endocrinologists

• 40 ng – many vitamin D researchers

• 50 ng – some vitamin D researchers and some athletics studies

See also VitaminDWiki

• Sports benefits from up to 50 ng of Vitamin – meta-analysis - Nov 2012

• Nutritional deficiencies of seasoned athletes (vitamin D is 2nd) – Aug 2013

• Is 50 ng of vitamin D too high, just right, or not enough

• Overview Sports and vitamin D has the following summary

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