#393: Vitamin D: Does Supplementation Actually Improve Health?

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Vitamin D status is linked to a variety of health outcomes, and avoiding or correcting deficiency is important. However, does supplementing with vitamin D actually benefit most people? Is there evidence for supplementation improving health outcomes like mortality, cancer risk, depression or other outcomes? In this episode Danny and Alan look at intervention trials of vitamin D supplementation.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode
0:18.3	393 of the podcast. My name is Danny Lennon and I am of course
0:25.0	here with Alan Flanagan. Alan, how are you today? I'm good. I am enjoying my resumption of normal life.
0:34.1	I got my second dose of the vaccine brought forward, which means I can plan,
0:40.0	plan return trips home. Yeah, it's nice, nice to be feeling like that. Although I did see
0:44.8	our world in data graph today, which showed like seven-day rolling cases. And you've got like
0:51.2	the US, Germany, everything, France, all on this like complete downward
0:55.4	trajectory and cutting right across it spiraling up is the UK. It was like, oh. So that's that.
1:02.3	And, you know, I'm just looking at the newspapers of Maddie Hancock being a bit handsy.
1:07.1	But, uh, yeah, we won't get into that.
1:13.4	I think we've bashed them enough without bringing up their personal lives.
1:19.7	But yeah, it's very much interesting to see how things are going with the,
1:25.3	I suppose, progress that many countries are making and the kind of resumption to
1:29.1	normality. This week was actually the first time I booked tickets to a gig. So I'm kind of
1:35.4	trying to be optimistic. It's not until October. So, I mean, I can't even fathom if things
1:41.6	aren't right by October, I give up. But that said, yeah,
1:46.1	that was mainly just a bit of optimism. The Irish vaccine kind of rollout has picked up,
1:53.6	hasn't it? Yeah, this week. So it's like for anyone 35 plus, I think, can register for theirs now.
2:03.6	So yeah, it's, I mean, it's going for anyone 35 plus, I think, can register for theirs now. So yeah, it's, I mean, I mean,
2:08.7	it's going at a decent pace from what I can tell. And I think it's great. The next quarter is supposed to be pretty good on supply from what I've heard. But yeah, yeah, it's going pretty well.
2:16.2	Yeah, it's, it's nice to see other European countries kind of like get close to or back
2:21.3	near a par with the UK rollout because it kind of, you know, means that maybe even travel
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