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Your BMI or rather the associated level of inflammation and bodyfatness determines your D3 requirements. I know that I have previously written about estimated vitamin D requirements, but in contrast to previous articles that were based only on 1-3 studies, today's article about the purported vitamin D requirements of the average Westerner, however, is based on the same previous 108 published estimates and new calculations based on the vitamin D status of 13,987 individuals in various studies Veugelers, Pham and Ekwaru used as the observational database for what is a of now probably the most tangible vitamin D recommendation in their recently published study in Nutrients  (Veugelers. 2015). There are many ways to get your vitamin D learn more the SuppVersity How Much To Take? Leucine, Insulin & Vitamin D Vit. D Speeds Up Recovery Overlooked D-Sources Vitamin D For Athletes! Vitamin D Helps Store Fat Now, as the headline already tells you, their anal...

With 77µg per 100g of the Nori leaves in the wrapping sushi makes an excellent B12 source, even if you stick to the vegan, no tuna version ;-) If this is not your first visit to the SuppVersity you will be aware that I am not a exactly a proponent of vegetarianism let alone vegan dieting. Just like any other severely restrictive diet people who don't eat animal products are at an increased risk of nutrient deficiencies. For vegetarians and even more so for vegans, it is not exactly easy to cover their daily requirements of vitamin A, vitamin D3, iron, cholesterol (yes, cholesterol is an essential nutrient!), n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and saturated fats. The most urgently needed nutrient for the average vegetarian / vegan dieter, however is vitamin B12, or cobalamin, as scientists say. Actually dairy happens to be an excellent B12 source. Why not become lacto-vegetarian? Dairy Has Branched-Chain Fatty Acids! Is There Sth. Like a Dairy Weight Loss Miracle? ...

Can't find "Tomatorade(R)", at your local supplement store, yet (surprising, right ;-)? The guys over @ SimplyRecipes have an easy and tweakable recipe describing how you can make your own "Tomatorade" or however you want to call it (photo by SimplyRecipes). If you listened live to yesterday's installment of the SuppVersity Science Round-Up on Super Human Radio , you will probably have noticed that due to the technical problems and my teacherly tendency to talk for hours, Carl Lanore and I did not cover all the topics ( click here do download the podcast if you haven't already done so)... but hey, that leaves more stuff for today, doesn't it? I guess I will best package the newsitems into three servings, starting out with the one I like best, namely my Tomatorade(R) aka plain tomato juice news... but before I do so, I must thank Maxim Okhrimenko who corrected the statement I made about vodka in Russian babies' tea or other beverages. Nor...

They keep coming, and I keep repeating myself: vitamin D is the most interesting "novel" supplement out there. A recent study Mohsen et al. ( Mohsen. 2010 ) found that vitamin D deficiency, apart from increasing risk of fractures and metabolic diseases, also impairs learning. Investigating the learning process of water maze the scientists found: The C-D [vitamin D deficient] group needed a longer time to reach the platform than the control and C+D [vitamin D repleted] animals (P<0.0001), demonstrating that vitamin D deficiency negatively affected the maze learning. On the other hand, calcitriol supplementation did not significantly influence the spatial learning. In view of these facts: If you do not notice that I posted the following only a few days ago,  "So, do your heart, your pancreas and, not to forget, your bones a favor and grab some vitamin D supplements ." ( Vitamin D: 1 Billion People Worldwide Are Vitamin D Deficient or Insufficient ) you either did...