Pages tagged with "Seniors"
- Omega-3 improves elderly muscles – 2 meta-analyses
- Adding just a little vitamin D does not help (muscle mass in this case) – meta-analysis
- Acute respiratory tract infections not reduced by Vitamin D if already have a good level
- 600,000 IU of Vitamin D (total) allowed previously weak immune systems to fight off a virus antigen
- 85 year olds who were not Vitamin D deficient had and continued to have few disabilities
- Hearing loss in seniors 2X more likely if low vitamin D
- 9X COVID-19 survival in nursing home if had 80,000 IU dose of vitamin D in previous month
- Increasing Vitamin D in aged care facilities to more than 800 IUs did not reduce falls
- Respiratory deaths in seniors – 40 percent are attributable to low vitamin D
- Centenarians in China 3X more likely to be active if high vitamin D
- Sarcopenia (muscle loss) is 1.6X more likely if poor Vitamin D receptor
- Nursing homes could reduce risk of COVID-19 with Vitamin D
- Parathyroid increase with age associated with worsening Vitamin D genes
- Coronary Artery Disease 2.9 X more likely in postmenopausal women if Vitamin D deficient
- Elderly Vitamin D Loading Dose of 500,000 IU is safe and effective – RCT 2009
- Less muscle loss associated with eating more fish (Omega-3, Vitamin D, Magnesium, etc)
- Age of menopause increases if add vitamin D or UVB
- My balance significantly improved at age 73 (perhaps Vitamin D, B12, or Omega-3)
- Higher Vitamin D in US seniors if older, female, not smoke, but LOWER for each in China
- Senior veterans with Heart Failure were 1.8X more likely to be hospitalized if low vitamin D