Vitamin E Deficiency

Frank vitamin E deficiency is rare and overt deficiency symptoms have not been found in healthy people who obtain little vitamin E from their diets. Premature babies of very low birth weight (<1,...

Vitamin A

Vitamin B12

Vitamin C

Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin that is necessary to form collagen; so is implicated in the synthesis of skin, scar tissue, tendons, ligaments, and blood vessels, the healing of wounds, and for...

Vitamin C Deficiency

Mushrooms can provide as much vitamin D as supplements

Researchers have discovered that eating mushrooms containing Vitamin D2 can be as effective at increasing and maintaining vitamin D levels (25–hydroxyvitamin D) as taking supplemental vitamin D2 or...

Vitamin D deficiency: an interview with Kellie Bilinski

We know that vitamin D is important in keeping bones strong. In the last 30-40 years it has also been realized that vitamin D has a lot of other roles in the body. Vitamin D essentially has a role in...

Study: Mushrooms provide as much vitamin D as supplements

BOSTON — Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have discovered that eating mushrooms containing vitamin D2 can be as effective at increasing and maintaining vitamin D levels (25–hy...

Eating mushrooms can help increase, maintain vitamin D levels, find BUSM researchers

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have discovered that eating mushrooms containing Vitamin D2 can be as effective at increasing and maintaining vitamin D levels (25-hydroxyvitamin...

Nutrition: D-iabetes and D-eath D-efying vitamin D

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), obesity and vitamin D deficiency are pandemic. Two new studies confirm the diabetes–vitamin D connection by demonstrating a >1.4-fold increase in risk of the metabol...

Vitamin D - How Much Is Too Much?

Vitamin D is vital for absorbing and maintaining calcium levels in the body, and therefore reducing the risk of fractures from falls and broken hips. Vitamin D is also beneficial for fighting cardiac...

Vitamin D Deficiency Likely Responsible For Flu Epidemic

Norwegian study: the vitamin has an antibiotic effect on the immune system Vitamin D deficiency is likely to blame for the flu epidemic that broke out last week in the Netherlands. The winter months a...

Why You Should be Taking Vitamin B12, According to US Vitamin Injections

US Vitamin Injections publishes new article discussing vitamin b12 deficiency and possible symptoms. Tampa, FL (PRWEB) October 20, 2012 Vitamin b12 is an essential water soluble vitamin that the body...

The Level of Orally Ingested Vitamin C Affected the Expression of Vitamin C Transporters and Vitamin C Accumulation in the Livers of ODS Rats.

We investigated the effects of vitamin C administration on vitamin C-specific transporters in ODS/ShiJcl-od/od rat livers. The vitamin C-specific transporter levels increased in the livers of the rats...

Hip fracture : assessment of fracture risk for treatment. Vitamin K and fracture.

Vitamin K is well known for its role in the synthesis of a number of blood coagulation factors. Vitamin K is also an important factor for bone metabolism via gamma-carboxylation of vitamin K-dependent...

Vitamin D content of food and its contribution to vitamin D status: a brief overview and Australian focus.

There are only a few natural foods that contain nutritionally significant quantities of vitamin D. These include egg yolk, some fatty fish, and in much lower concentrations, meat. The published values...

Bioavailability and Efficacy of Vitamin D(2) from UV-Irradiated Yeast in Growing, Vitamin D-Deficient Rats.

New food sources are needed to bridge the gap between vitamin D intake and recommended intake. We assessed the bioavailability and efficacy of vitamin D in an 8 week dose-response study of bread made...

Broth from canned clams is suitable for use as an excellent source of free vitamin b(12).

Vitamin B(12) was assayed and characterized in the broth of canned clams (boiled plain). The broth contained considerable amounts of vitamin B(12) (2.7-14.1 μg/100 g, 1.3-6.7 μg/can). HPLC and LC/ES...