For a long time, taking vitamin D helps prevent fractures in the elderly. However, a new scientific study of 20,000 people pointed out that taking vitamin D large amounts of people cannot reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, memory loss or avoid fractures. It is estimated that one-third of people over the age of 60 in the United States take vitamin D supplements regularly. According to current US health guidelines, each person should consume 600 to 800 IU of vitamin D every day to maintain health. Usually, as long as you have more sunlight, it will help synthesize vitamin D. If there is insufficient sunlight in winter, you can also choose to drink more milk to supplement vitamin D.
Meryl, a researcher and doctor at Boston 's Brigham and Women 's Hospital LeBoff pointed out that although taking vitamin D is indeed important for strengthening bone support, it is not "the more the better".
Leboff said: "Our study found that vitamin D will absorb better if taken with calcium, but even so, it will not effectively reduce the risk of fractures in any part of the person taking vitamin D."
Steven Cummings, a physician at the California Pacific Medical Center, and Clifford, a physician at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute. Rosen also said in the review of the study that people no longer need to rely on taking more vitamin D to prevent possible major diseases.
However, LeBev emphasized that this study only focuses on patients with "healthy general public", without bone relieving or other diseases requiring additional vitamins. There are still no research on this part of the study and further investigation and experiments are needed.
Leboff said: "Overall, this investigation overturned the long-standing concept that "you should take more vitamin D to avoid fractures". At the same time, constantly checking the amount of vitamin D in the blood cannot reduce the risk of fractures. In fact, for most healthy people, going out to activities and eating more healthy foods is more important than taking additional vitamin D."