Vitamin D

The regular view of Vitamin D as a simple remedy for age-related illnesses has persisted for a long time. However, new trials have revealed that more Vitamin D may not always be better. The phenomenon of too much Vitamin D causing unwanted outcomes is now referred as the Vitamin D Paradox. While it is still […]

Research no longer supports a single, easy-to-use treatment for age-related loss of skeletal muscle. High-volume trials conducted recently—VITAL (Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial) and D-Health (Vitamin D to Prevent Falls) trials—showed that adults with sufficient baseline levels of vitamin D do not significantly improve their muscle mass or grip strength and do not prevent sarcopenia

Vitamin D has been one of the best nutritional interventions for healthy aging. Various observational studies have demonstrated that older adults that have lower blood levels of vitamin D may be at greater risk for muscle weakness, slower walking pace, poor balance, and falls. Consequently, vitamin D supplementation was made widely popular as a potential

Have you ever stopped to think that one of the greatest dangers to healthy aging is not something that we can physically see- it’s something happening gradually to steal our strength year after year? This reality is made manifest through a condition called sarcopenia, which refers to the natural decline in muscle strength, mass, and

The development of a child’s bones begins long before they take their first steps, with the fetal skeleton rapidly developing and relying completely on the mother’s minerals for the development of the strong bone structure. While the childhood bone health of children is thought to be linked to their diet and exercise after birth, the

Earlier on in the development of a child, there are many important things happening in the child’s body, including the development of an immune system and the development of lungs before they reach full term. There has been a lot of research conducted recently on how a mother’s diet can influence these two major processes,

The most complex biological construction project begins long before a child sets foot in a classroom and well before birth. It is the development of the human brain. Yes, from within mom’s womb, baby’s brain cells are working overtime, constructing billions of neurons crucial for baby to think learn and remember. All of this, of

While everyone knows Vitamin D for calcium balance and bone health, what many people are not aware of is that Vitamin D is actually a neuroactive hormone that plays a pivotal role in fetal brain development. The recent large meta-analysis by Frederiksen et al. in the JAMA Network Open (May 2026) via the COPSAC_2010 trial