There Are Two Sides to Each Coin: Vitamin D Increases Insulin Sensitivity in Obese, Yet Decreases it in Lean Mice
I am probably repeating myself, but I cannot emphasize enough that a common fallacy of medical research is the focus on pathologies. A recent example with respect to the "omnipotency" (that's what the Internet news could make you believe) of vitamin D comes from researchers at George Town University ( GU. Press Release ). The scientists were able to replicate the results of previous studies, where high dose vitamin D supplementation had "significantly reduced development of estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer", but for estrogen receptor-negative (ER-) breast cancer they found either no effect (lean mice) or even an increased rate of cancerous growth in the group of obese mice. What's yet even more interesting that a similar contradiction was evident with respect to vitamin D's widely perpetuated beneficial effects on insulin resistance. In the pathologic model of the obese mice, vitamin D @ 15-25k IU per day was in fact able to ameliorat...