Vitamin

This common vitamin deficiency can mimic normal aging

Two micrograms is an almost unimaginably small amount. It weighs less than a tiny fragment of a grain of table…

2 weeks ago

Millions take calcium and vitamin D for stronger bones. A major review finds little benefit

A comprehensive review published in The BMJ suggests that calcium supplements, vitamin D supplements, or taking both together provide little…

3 weeks ago

Scientists warn popular vitamin D supplement may have a “previously unknown” downside

Taking vitamin D2 might lower the body's levels of the more efficient form of vitamin D, vitamin D3, according to…

2 months ago

Scientists discover vitamin B2 may help cancer cells survive

Vitamin B2 is essential for human health, but new research suggests it may also help cancer cells stay alive. Also…

2 months ago

Vitamin A may be helping cancer hide from the immune system

Researchers at the Princeton University Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have uncovered new ways a vitamin A-derived…

6 months ago

Eating more vitamin C can physically change your skin

Scientists at the University of Otago, Faculty of Medicine -- Christchurch Ōtautahi, have identified a direct connection between how much…

6 months ago

Supercharged vitamin k could help the brain heal itself

Neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's disease occur when neurons gradually deteriorate and die. This progressive loss of…

9 months ago

The vitamin D mistake weakening your immunity

Taking vitamin D2 might lower the body's levels of the more efficient form of vitamin D, vitamin D3, according to…

9 months ago

CRISPR uncovers gene that supercharges vitamin D—and stops tumors in their tracks

Vitamin D is not only an essential nutrient, but also the precursor of the hormone calcitriol, indispensable for health: it…

12 months ago

‘Healthy’ vitamin B12 levels not enough to ward off neuro decline

Meeting the minimum requirement for vitamin B12, needed to make DNA, red blood cells and nerve tissue, may not actually…

1 year ago