Pages tagged with "Liver"

144 pages, most important first (overviews, then meta-analyses, then RCTs, then newest). Combine with another topic

• Overview Liver and vitamin D
• Liver associations with vitamin D and genes – Overview
• Vitamin D helps organ transplant - many studies
• Hepatitis B virus and Vitamin D - many studies
• Glyphosate and Vitamin D - many studies
• NAFLD and Vitamin D - many studies
• Vitamin D prevents Hepatitis-C and helps treat it (many studies)
• C15:0 (Fatty15, Pentadecanoic acid) a fatty acid from grass-fed animals may be essential - several studies
• Liver problems, including hepatitis, are associated with low Vitamin D - Meta-analysis 2025
• MASLD (NAFLD, Non-Alcoholic Liver Disease) and Vitamin D - meta-analysis
• NAFLD weakly associated with low vitamin D – meta-analysis 2013
• Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease treated by Omega-3 – three meta-analysis 2016-2017
• NAFLD associated with low vitamin D (in children too) – meta-analysis
• 3X less risk of Liver cancer if more than 30 ng of vitamin D – meta-analysis
• Liver Cancer 8 percent less likely for every 4 ng higher level of vitamin D – Meta-analysis
• Liver Cancer – higher risk if poor genes (Vitamin D receptor etc) – meta-analysis
• Hepatitis B patients have 2 ng lower level of Vitamin D – meta-analysis
• NAFLD in children nicely treated by combination of Vitamin D and Omega-3 – RCT
• Cod liver oil does not prevent Respiratory Infections (no surprise, only 400 IU of vitamin D) RCT
• NAFLD not reduced by 1680 IU of vitamin D plus Omega-3 (no surprise) – RCT
• Severe Non-Alcoholic fatty liver disease treated by Omega-3 – RCT
• Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) treated by Vitamin D (20,000 IU weekly after loading dose) – RCT
• NAFLD somewhat treated in children with 2,000 IU Vitamin D daily – RCT
• Loading dose greatly improves subsequent daily Vitamin D if have liver fibrosis – RCT
• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) reduced somewhat by 50,000 IU vitamin D every 2 weeks – RCT
• Increasing vitamin D level in blood failed to decrease Fatty Liver inflammation – RCT
• Osteoporosis interactions with gut, brain, liver and kidney (not just joints)
• Low Vitamin D reduces Fetuin B protein from liver, which increases obesity (mice and children)
• Some skin-made Vitamin D is sulfated by the liver and stored for future desulfination and use
• 400,000 IU barely raised liver transplant candidate vitamin D levels (no surprise)
• Liver Cirrhosis death is 4X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor
• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and the Vitamin D Receptor – editorial
• VDR activators for Fatty Liver: Berberine, etc.
• Strong association of non alcoholic fatty liver disease and low vitamin D
• Liver Disease (due to alcohol) 3 X more likely to be severe if have low Vitamin D
• Lean NAFLD is associated with low Vitamin D (4-11% of adults have this liver problem)
• Glutathione fights: Diabetes, Alz, PD, NAFLD, Kidney, UC, IBD, HIV, Fatigue, etc,
• Fewer liver problems (NAFLD, MASLD) if higher Vitamin D -Dec 2025
• 40-50 ng level of Vitamin D often recommended
• Glutathione fights Alz, Park, Cardio, Liver, COPD. Asthma, etc
• Glyphosate Is Causing Fatty Liver Disease and many other problems
• Iron deficiency is a cause of Vitamin D deficiency
• NAFLD treated by Vitamin D restoration of gut microbiota
• Omega-3 helps NAFLD and other liver problems
• How vitamin D benefits normal organs and Long-COVID organs
• Autoimmune Hepatitis 8X more likely if low vitamin D
• Bariatric Surgery lowered risk of severe liver disease (not a surprise)
• Water-soluble form of vitamins are needed for some health problems
• Liver transplant failure 2.7X more-likely if low vitamin D
• Liver
• Liver Fibrosis (NAFLD) 5X less if not obese and good Vitamin D
• Vitamin D is one of only 2 ways to easily prevent NAFLD (380,000 people)
• Vitamin D activation is mainly done by the tissues, not the Liver and Kidneys
• Brain cells can probably activate Vitamin D without liver or kidney (at least in rats)
• Children with severe hemophilia – 96 percent had low vitamin D (should not be a surprise)
• Hepatitis normally rare in children: huge increase after lockdown (Adenovirus, low Vitamin D)
• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: 75 percent of overweight adults and type II diabetics
• Hepatitis C drug is extremely expensive, why not try Calcidiol (semi-processed vitamin D)
• Low vitamin D during pregnancy increases risk of future health problems (obesity etc.)
• Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (4 in 10 seniors) and Vitamin D
• Liver transplants in children more likely to be rejected if insufficient vitamin D
• China has documented that less UV results in more cancer
• Vitamin C reduces liver inflammation, which improves vitamin D production
• 450,000 IU of vitamin D over 9 weeks given to 100,000 teenage Iranian girls helped their livers
• Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease perhaps due to gut microbiota
• People with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and low vitamin D have increased high risk of advanced liver fibrosis
• Liver Inflammation (NAFLD) is prevented by Vitamin D – review
• Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) treated by Vitamin D (in rats this time)
• Liver transplant needs Vitamin D (actually semi-activated, not regular)
• Chronic Hepatitis D viral infection 3.6 X more likely if low vitamin D
• Very low Vitamin D levels after Liver transplant in children (need Calcitriol or topical)
• Calcidiol may be 5X more effective than Vitamin D3
• Is HyD (25(OH)D) a better form of vitamin D for some animals and maybe humans with liver problems
• Heart transplant 19 ng vitamin D vs liver transplant 13 ng
• Poorly functioning livers do not process vitamin D (Calcidiol is needed)
• Breast and Liver Cancers statistically associated with low vitamin D (Japan)
• Liver, Liver Cancer, and Vitamin D
• Fatty liver disease (NAFLD), metabolic syndrome, and perhaps vitamin D
• Diabetes changes liver genes so as to destroy (catabolize) Vitamin D
• Liver Cancer 3X more likely if low Vitamin D
• Hypothesis: Obesity reduces Vitamin D production by repressing CYP2R1 gene in liver and fat tissue
• NAFLD is treated by Vitamin D, Omega-3, Curcumin, Silymarinm, etc.
• Cancer - Liver
• Liver cancer half as likely if high level of vitamin D
• Liver cancer incidence probably reduced by Vitamin D and Vitamin K
• Liver cancer nicely treated by high dose vitamin D for 16 weeks (early stage, in rats)
• Smokers 1.9 X more likely to get liver cancer if low vitamin D
• Hepatitis C, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and vitamin D deficiency
• Vitamin D Deficiency May Help Spread of Hepatitis B Throughout Liver
• Hepatitis B virus might be treated by Vitamin D
• Vitamin D is the most popular supplement, and was in the first commercial supplement – cod liver oil
• Alcoholics with low vitamin D get more bone fractures
• Alcoholics have osteoporosis
• Off Topic – An egg sandwich might contain very little egg and Choline
• Cadmium liver problem 5 X less likely when vitamin D is greater than 40 ng
• Hepatitis B virus reduced by 5X the Vitamin D getting to liver cells in the lab
• Vitamin D is sequestered in Fat: total body, adipose, and liver
• Infants who have iron deficiency anemia are 4X more likely to be vitamin D deficient
• Low vitamin D at ICU admission is associated with cancer, infections, acute respiratory insufficiency and liver failure
• Hepatitis B clinical event was 2X more likely if low vitamin D
• Liver failure in ICU – 2.5X more likely to die in within six months if very low vitamin D
• Advanced liver cirrhosis death 6.3X more likely if extremely low vitamin D
• Cirrhosis in hospital 2.9 X less likely to get need ICU when supplemented with Vitamin K
• Far fewer health problems from western diet if add Vitamin D (in rats in this study)
• Vitamin D and the Liver – Is it Correlation or Cause
• Jaundice of pregnancy (intrahepatic cholestasis ) is associated with low vitamin D
• Alcoholic liver cirrhosis treated by 1,000 IU of vitamin D
• The worse the chronic liver disease, the lower the vitamin D level – Review
• Diesel air pollution causes liver problems (and low vitamin D) if low Omega-3 (mice)
• Vitamin D reduces fatty liver problems in rats fed a high fat diet
• Role of vitamins in gastrointestinal diseases – review
• Weekly dosing of vitamin D is far better than single large dose (chronic liver, children)
• Skin directly benefits from the sun – no liver, kidney needed to create Vitamin D
• Liver and interactions with vitamin D deficiency - Review
• Perhaps a sunshine option for chronic liver disease
• Chronic liver disease treated by Vitamin D
• Vitamin D might stop colon cancer metastasis to liver cancer
• More fat in liver associated with lower vitamin D
• Fatty liver disease associated with low level of vitamin D
• Half of obese children had fatty liver and low vitamin D
• Lung cells activate Vitamin D, without liver or kidney
• Low vitamin D associated with hemodialysis problems
• Alcoholic liver disease 8X more likely among alcoholics if very low vitamin D
• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease associated with much lower vitamin D
• Liver stores 4 months of vitamin D, 48 months of Vit. A, and 60 months of Vit. B-12
• Vitamin A and dioxin-like compounds in fish liver, etc may block vitamin D
• 11,000 IU vitamin D daily from traditional Norwegian diet of cod, cod liver, cod-liver oil, and roe – 2004
• Multiple Sclerosis incidence rate cut in half by 800 IU of vitamin D in cod liver oil
• Vitamin D3 is stored in fat has not been processed by liver
• Sarcopenia and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (vitamin D not mentioned)
• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease associated with low vitamin D – independent of BMI
• Primary biliary cirrhosis strongly associated with low vitamin D
• Liver problems in children associated with 9 ng lower levels of vitamin D
• Important interactions between the liver and vitamin D
• Vitamin D intervention stopped bone loss in those mice getting too much alcohol
• Fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and the importance of vitamin D
• Vitamin D, Cod-Liver Oil, Sunlight, and Rickets: A Historical Perspective – 2003
• Cod liver oil rarely has vitamin D from the liver or even from the cod
• Oral vitamin D is effective in chronic liver disease.
• Vitamin A (Cod Liver Oil) blocks vitamin D – 2008
• Death due to liver problems was 4X more probable with low levels of vitamin D
• Vitamin D Deficiency and Liver Disease
• Liver injury associated with low level of vitamin D
• Apparently cods have too much variation in their liver oil nowdays