YOU & YOUR HEALTH
Vitamin D
A DEEPER
understanding of
The NHS recommends that everyone in the UK take a vitamin D supplement between October and March. Recently, lowered levels of this vital vitamin have been implicated as one possible reason why COVID-19 takes a disproportionate toll on the BAME community. Jordi Mascio of Goldman Laboratories takes an in depth look‌
VITAMIN D
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LMOST everyone is familiar with vitamins, either as food supplements or as dietary essential factors. Ever since the discovery that limes prevented scurvy on sailing voyages, we’ve known that some diseases are caused by vitamin deficiency and can be treated by adding these vitamins to our diet. However, a thorough understanding of the mechanism of how vitamins work has sometimes eluded us.
Terminology The terminology regarding vitamin D may be somewhat confusing, even to trained doctors. Vitamin D is not a single substance. Vitamins occur in a variety of related forms known as vitamers. A vitamer of a particular vitamin is one of several related compounds that exhibit biological activity against a specific vitamin deficiency. Nutrition research has shown that all vitamers exhibit biological activity against their specific vitamin deficiency, although different vitamers exhibit different potencies against those diseases.
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