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mercola said:If Professor Robert Heaney of Creighton University, the calcium and vitamin D expert, is right, then the damage from widespread vitamin D deficiency may well be enormous. In an ominous warning, Dr. Heaney recently wrote, "The cost of vitamin D deficiency, while yet to be fully reckoned, may well be massive."
If Professor Michael Holick of Boston University (the man who has written the relevant chapters in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine for the last 15 years) is right, then we should all have our calcidiol [25(OH)D] levels checked every year.
PubMed / Anticonvulsant effects of 1 said:Our findings show that Vitamin D plays a direct anticonvulsant role in the brain and suggest that the Vitamin D endocrine system may represent a new target for the development of anticonvulsant drugs.
At least five studies have found significant associations between higher vitamin D levels and better intellectual functioning, but they all studied adults. However, a recent report found a very high incidence of vitamin D deficiency among 337 younger individuals with intellectual disabilities. The obvious explanation is that intellectually impaired individuals do not go outdoors as often as higher functioning individuals and thus have lower vitamin D levels. Two groups found the association after controlling for outdoor activities, making it likely that low vitamin D levels per se impair intellectual ability.