Hypothesis of cause and effect of vitamin D deficiency

Text extracted from graph May 2012 - for translation, blind, and hyperlinks to more information

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

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Vitamin D intervention trials - a long list - May 2014

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See also at VitaminDWiki

• Proof that Vitamin D Works 93 as of June 2023]

• All items in category Evidence for Vitamin D 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 items

• Neighborhoods with more trees are healthier (vitamin D not mentioned) – July 2015

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