CONCLUSION: In noninstitutionalized older adults, a group at high risk for all-cause mortality, serum 25(OH)D levels had an independent, inverse association with CVD and all-cause mortality. Randomized controlled trials of vitamin D supplementation in older adults are warranted to determine whether this association is causal and reversible.

Summary in English: This recent study found a direct relationship between those older adults with vitamin D inadequacies and an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and all cause mortality.  So basically if you don’t have enough Vit D your likelihood of dying is significantly higher.

They are going to do more research but why wait.  Vitamin D is actually a more like a hormone than a vitamin so it makes sense it is so crucial. But it is easy and cheap to test for Vit D and to supplement with.

Vitamin D can be produced within your body by the sun but it’s very difficult to get enough sunlight in the bay area to provide you with adequate Vitamin D levels (current research states 32 ng/mL as the threshold for optimal health, meaning it should be above this).

Come in we’ll order a quick and easy blood test and determine what your levels are and if you need to supplement how much you’ll need.  Vitamin D is also something you don’t want to overdose so it’s important know where you are.