Vitamin D supplements may help people with diseased hearts, a study suggests.

A trial on 163 heart failure patients found supplements of the vitamin, which is made in the skin when exposed to sunlight, improved their hearts’ ability to pump blood around the body.

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals team, who presented at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology, described the results as “stunning”.

The British Heart Foundation called for longer trials to assess the pills.

Vitamin D is vital for healthy bones and teeth and may have important health benefits throughout the body but many people are deficient.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35959556

hardly anybody gets the right amount of sun for our genetics. We have moved people all over the planet and shut them in dim cubicles.

roughbarked said:

hardly anybody gets the right amount of sun for our genetics. We have moved people all over the planet and shut them in dim cubicles.

Like a prisoner

Cymek said:

roughbarked said:

hardly anybody gets the right amount of sun for our genetics. We have moved people all over the planet and shut them in dim cubicles.

Like a prisoner

he used to bring me roses….

Yea, presenting unpublished, unreviewed, results, as a poster at a conference, is always stunning…

poikilotherm said:

Yea, presenting unpublished, unreviewed, results, as a poster at a conference, is always stunning…

Now, now. Who said it had to be proper science to be newsworthy?

;)

No need to worry I ran my ruler over it before I posted it.
It’s fine science wise and safe for consumption for the general population.
We’ve all got thalidomide in the back of our minds that makes us extra vigilant when posting science on a public domain.

roughbarked said:

hardly anybody gets the right amount of sun for our genetics. We have moved people all over the planet and shut them in dim cubicles.

it’s the UK.. there’s never any sun

Arts said:

roughbarked said:

hardly anybody gets the right amount of sun for our genetics. We have moved people all over the planet and shut them in dim cubicles.

it’s the UK.. there’s never any sun

They put vit D in all their bread in the UK to ward off rickets.
Don’t know if they still do and don’t know if we do it here just to copy them.

Peak Warming Man said:

They put vit D in all their bread in the UK to ward off rickets.
Don’t know if they still do and don’t know if we do it here just to copy them.

We put sunscreen in our bread.

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

They put vit D in all their bread in the UK to ward off rickets.
Don’t know if they still do and don’t know if we do it here just to copy them.

We put sunscreen in our bread.

smacks forehead

That’s right, forgot that.

Arts said:

roughbarked said:

hardly anybody gets the right amount of sun for our genetics. We have moved people all over the planet and shut them in dim cubicles.

it’s the UK.. there’s never any sun

Yeah. Well there is that.

Peak Warming Man said:

Arts said:

roughbarked said:

hardly anybody gets the right amount of sun for our genetics. We have moved people all over the planet and shut them in dim cubicles.

it’s the UK.. there’s never any sun

They put vit D in all their bread in the UK to ward off rickets.
Don’t know if they still do and don’t know if we do it here just to copy them.

We put iodine in salt because many Australians would suffer gout without it or so we thought.

good job you don’t need much sun a week to get enough vit d.

not gout. iodine deficiency…thyroid and goitre.

ChrispenEvan said:

good job you don’t need much sun a week to get enough vit d.

All you need is to walk outside at least once or twice a day.

ChrispenEvan said:

not gout. iodine deficiency…thyroid and goitre.

Sorry, yeah.. Those.
got goitre and gout mixed in the back of my mind.

it’s ok TSM is here.

I’ve always said the D was the way to a woman’s heart.