Not getting enough Vitamin D? Check that blood pressure

by Brian White (Subscribe to Brian White's posts)
Jul 26th 2007 4:10PM

Categories: Diet & Weight Loss, Nutrition & Supplements

According to a new piece of research from Canada, blood pressure increases when the body does not get the needed amount of Vitamin D from whatever source, every day.

It's known that high blood pressure is correlated with a propensity of heart disease and hypertension, and getting enough Vitamin D is a great way to help normalize that pressure daily. Of course, there are plenty of other activities that need to go along with it.

If possible, try getting some sunlight every day. Contrary to what sunscreen manufacturers like to say, a small dose (as little as 10 minutes per day) of sun exposure to the skin promotes internal Vitamin D production every day -- and it's free. Just don't overexpose (and burn) yourself. That is definitely not good.

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Mark 7-26-2007 @ 6:21PM

Glad to see this post. Summer is here - get some sun! Vitamin D is essential to all kinds of important health issues - osteoporosis, cardiovascular health, mood, etc. Cheers!

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Crabby McSlacker 7-27-2007 @ 12:32AM

Mark does indeed have a very interesting blog; That'sfit readers should check it out!

(Crabby's blog is far less interesting, but it's at http://crankyfitness.blogspot.com/ should you be extremely bored today.)

Interesting to see the connection between Vitamin D and blood pressure. It also seems to help fight cancer and MS and a bunch of Bad Things.

However, there was a recent study that was kind of freaky, that throws into confusion the whole "get all you need from sunshine theory". This is one of those studies I wanted to ignore because I didn't like it:
http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/92/6/2130

But maybe you guys have some reassuring words about why it doesn't mean what it looks like it means.