Mental stress, physical stress associations with low vitamin D

It appears that one or both of the following are true

• Cortisol "Vitamin D Receptor" (55,400 Google search results Jan 2022)
• Cortisol uses Cholesterol needed to produce Vitamin D from the sun

Many diseases stress the body ==> consume vitamin D
No indication that mental stress is reduced by Vitamin D (other than Depression )
    perhaps stress ==> lower vitamin D ==> depression

See VitaminDWiki

Stress increased the risk of getting multiple autoimmune diseases by 2.3 X – June 2018
More stress (allostatic load biomarkers) associated with vitamin D deficiency – Oct 2015

• "Allostatic load is a powerful tool to assess the harmful effects of chronic stress to the human body on a multisystem level. "
• Comment by VitaminDWiki: Seems more likely that high allostatic load index ==> low vitamin D
• Increased vitamin D "might" prevent stress and "might" reduce stress,
• BUT restoring vitamin D levels should most certainly reduce other health problems assocaiaed with low vitamin D

Mental stress significantly lowered the vitamin D levels of Heart patients – Sept 2014

• People with stable CAD were told to prepare a 2 minute speech in 3 minutes
• Their Vitamin D levels dropped from 31 ng to 24 ng

Many diseases reduce levels of vitamin D diseases stress the body
96 percent vitamin D deficient – destitute asylum seekers and refugees in London – Nov 2012
Vitamin D associated with 2X better health and less stress, both before and after Breast Cancer – Dec 2014
Overview Pain and Vitamin D

All items in Chronic Pain and Vitamin D 146 items

Vitamin D is number one stress buster – Huffington Post May 2010

• Stress buster #2 is Magnesium

Smoking reduces vitamin D

• Wonder if stress ==> smoking ==> lower level of vitamin D

Cholesterol is needed to produce both Vitamin D and Cortisol
Elderly Korean women 2.7 times more likely to feel stressed if low vitamin D – Oct 2016
Stress after natural disaster reduced by just 1000 IU Vitamin D – RCT Aug 2015

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See also web

• Are stress and high cortisol depleting your vitamin D?
  Sept 2012 Natural News: Cortisol is a glucocorticoid hormone, all of which diminish Vitamin D Receptors
• Stress and vitamin D in chronically stressed rats Oct 2013
  CYP27B1. CYP24A1 , and Vitamin D receptor were all affected by stress
• How Stress Makes You Sick
  Mercola Dec 2015 - no mention of Vitamin D

Note: this page ignores other stresses - associated with low vitamin D

• stress fractures
• oxidative stress
• stress incontinence