Elderly Persons! Your Vitamin D Level Better Be More Than 20 Ng/ml

Michael van Baker — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:47:09 +0000

Vitamin D! Do you have enough? The numbers have been squishy. At one point, it seemed likely that everyone in the U.S. was suffering from a "deficiency." But what did that mean, exactly, outside of the non-FDA-regulated claims of vitamin D retailers? A new study says that vitamin D deficiency for people over 65 is 20 nanograms/milliliter of 25(OH)D in your blood. Fall below that for too long, and bad things tend to happen.

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Elderly Persons! Your Vitamin D Level Better Be More Than 20 Ng/ml