About The Link Between Obesity And Vitamin D Deficiency

Victoria Aly Author: Victoria Aly Time for reading: ~1 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022
About The Link Between Obesity And Vitamin D Deficiency

Being overweight can cause a deficiency of vitamin D in the body, which cannot be compensated by taking supplements.

Being overweight can cause a deficiency of vitamin D in the body, which cannot be compensated by taking supplements, according to a British study presented in PLoS Medicine.

The study is large-scale and includes an analysis of data from 42,000 people, with a research team from University College London looking for 12 genetic variations known to be linked to obesity . In analyzing the data, the team of epidemiologist Elina Hipponen found that their carriers had a tendency to vitamin D deficiency in the blood. When the body mass index increases by 10%, the level of the vitamin decreases by 4.2%.

According to researchers, weight lossalso has a positive effect on the synthesis of vitamin D and returns its level to normal. To maintain good health, the author of the paper recommends that obese people regularly monitor vitamin levels to correct deviations in time. Unfortunately, taking it in the form of supplements does not contribute to weight loss, she said.
 
Vitamin D is needed by our body to absorb calcium from food in the intestines. It also supports the immune system. There is evidence that it has a positive effect on mood. We get it mainly from the synthesis of the skin under the influence of sunlight and then from the consumption of products containing it, some of which are dairy.

 


The study also found that carriers of the genetic variants sought did not necessarily show a predisposition to obesity.

There is still no explanation for the link between obesity and low levels of vitamin D in the blood. With this study, it is once again confirmed. It has been suggested that in obesity, vitamin D as a fat-soluble substance is transported to adipose tissue instead of blood.

Three-quarters of the US population suffers from vitamin D deficiency, 35.7% - from obesity.

 
 

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