According to a study from the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, This potent vitamin may be the answer to arterial stiffness — vitamin D.
Rigid artery walls are an independent predictor of cardiovascular- related disease and death and vitamin D deficiency appears to be a contributor, says Dr. Yanbin Dong, geneticist and cardiologist at the Georgia Prevention Institute at the Medical College of Georgia.
In the first randomized trial of its kind, the researchers found that vitamin D supplementation significantly improved arterial stiffness.
The study was published in the journal PLOS One.
Participants taking 4,000 international units — more than six times the daily 600 IUs the Institute of Medicine currently recommends for most adults and children — received the most benefit, says Dr. Anas Raed, research resident in the MCG Department of Medicine and the study’s first author.
The dose, which is considered the largest, safe dose by the Institute Of Medicine reduced arterial stiffness the fastest — 10.4 percent in four months. “It significantly and rapidly reduced stiffness,” Raed says.
According to a piece in Scientific American, vitamin D deficiency has soared in the U.S:
To get your daily dose of vitamin D it is recommended to do the following:
‣ Eat Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon
‣ Take Vitamin D supplements
‣ Get daily exposure to sun (about 10 minutes). Do not forget to wear a sunscreen.
Some other good food sources of vitamin D are sardines, tuna, oysters, shrimp, eggs, and mushrooms.
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1. “High Doses of Vitamin D Rapidly Reduce Arterial Stiffness in Overweight/Obese, Vitamin-Deficient African-Americans.” Jagwire, Augusta University, 2 Jan. 2018, jagwire.augusta.edu/archives/50142.
2. “Dose Responses of Vitamin D3 Supplementation on Arterial Stiffness in Overweight African Americans with Vitamin D Deficiency: A Placebo Controlled Randomized Trial.” PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, 7 Dec. 2017, journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0188424.
3. “Vitamin D Deficiency Soars in the U.S., Study Says.” Scientific American, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2009, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vitamin-d-deficiency-united-states/.
4. “9 Healthy Foods That Are High in Vitamin D.” Healthline, Healthline Media, 2 June 2016, http://www.healthline.com/nutrition/9-foods-high-in-vitamin-d.
