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Flabby muscles and lack of muscle tone are to most signs of lack of exercise or aging or low hormones or even all the above but new research may indicate something else going on. Could this common situation be due to an actual vitamin deficiency? Researchers at the University of London set out to learn this very thing! Their results were startling!
Vitamin D is most widely recognized to exert bone and immune effects. PB Tomlinson, from the University of London (United Kingdom), and colleagues completed a meta analysis of published studies of vitamin D and muscle strength in healthy adults (ages 18 to 40 years), covering a total of 310 subjects. Selected trials lasted from 4 weeks to 6 months and dosages differed from 4000IU per day to 60,000IU per week. Upper and lower limb muscle strength both showed a standardized mean difference of 0.32, for which h the investigators “[suggest] vitamin D supplementation significantly increased muscle strength.”
It is a pretty simple thing to be tested for vitamin D, a blood test. My favorite vitamin D supplement is a liquid form that is available right here!
It would be interesting to see if these findings would be applicable to older people.
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