Overweight and obese lost 12 lbs with vitamin D in 6 months– RCT
Reported in Belfast Telegraph
Article does not mention any exercise
Presented at European Congress on Obesity in Prague, Czech Republic
The following was apparently a poster presented May 8:
VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION PROMOTES WEIGHT LOSS AND WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE REDUCTION IN OVERWEIGHT /OBESE ADULTS WITH HYPOVITAMINOSIS D , Vigna L.1, Lonati C.1, Sommaruga D.2, Tirelli A. S.3, Riboldi L.1 Italy
Found email on the internet: luisella.vigna@policlinico.mi.it
400 obese or overweight adults – 6 doses in 6 months
||Monthly Dose |Weight loss
kg|Weight loss
pounds
Placebo|1.2 kg|2.6 lb
25,000 IU| 3.8 kg|8.4 lb
100,000 IU| 5.4 kg|11.9 lb||
Will try to get more information
Can speculate even greater weight loss in a RCT which:
1. Start with a loading dose - say 50,000 IU daily for the first week
1. Used a higher dose of vitamin D - perhaps 50,000 IU weekly (= 200,000 IU monthly)
1. Added 100 mg of Magnesium daily- in the form of Magnesium Chloride
* Magnesium (in the water) can increase the response to a dose of vitamin D
* Perhaps the adults in this study drank hard water (Magnesium)
* That is, perhaps there was something in the water
See also VitaminDWiki
* Dieters lost 5 more pounds if achieved more than 32 ng of vitamin D – RCT March 2014
* The Vitamin D Diet – book Sept 2012
* Need 40 to 80 ng of vitamin D to lose weight – Colgan Sept 2013
* Low-calorie diets mimicked by Vitamin D – Dec 2016
* Overweight women on caloric restriction diet got 3X benefits from 8 weeks of Omega-3 – RCT Dec 2015
Overview Obesity and Vitamin D contains the following summary
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Click here for 2014 study