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Learn the Symptoms of
Vitamin D Deficiency
Before It’s Too Late!

So what are the symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency?

Well there are two levels of Vitamin D deficiency, also called Hypovitaminosis D, that current Vitamin D Research is now beginning to show. There is severe Vitamin D deficiency and a less obvious problem of Low Vitamin D.

Severe Vitamin D deficiency

Severe Vitamin D deficiency in children causes them to get the bowed legs, and sometimes arms, that are characteristic of the soft bone disease of rickets.

In adults, this severe form of low Vitamin D causes a disease called osteomalacia. Osteomalacia is similar to rickets, as it is a softening of the bones, but it usually doesn’t lead to bowed legs as it does in children.

Before getting rickets or osteomalacia, there are few obvious symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency except bone pain and muscle weakness. These symptoms are extremely common and since they can be caused by MANY other problems, they are often overlooked by doctors.

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But Chronic Pain should make health care providers ALWAYS SUSPECT symptoms of vitamin d deficiency.

The Study entitled Prevalence of Severe Hypovitaminosis D in Patients With Persistent, Nonspecific Musculoskeletal Pain published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings concluded,

"Because osteomalacia is a known cause
of persistent, nonspecific musculoskeletal pain,
screening all outpatients with such pain
for hypovitaminosis D should be
standard practice in clinical care."

Read that again "...should be standard practice" - yet it is not. If you have musculoskeletal pain of any type, insist on having your Vitamin D Level checked against the 'normal' level as per the current Vitamin D research as outlined on the Normal Vitamin D Level page. Do NOT use the lab reference values as the 'normal' range as they are likely to be outdated.

Low Vitamin D

Then there is a much less obvious form of Vitamin D deficiency that is so subtle that you won’t know that you have it unless you get a blood test. I call this “Low Vitamin D” or sub clinical Vitamin D deficiency symptoms.

Most physicians aren’t even aware of this problem and certainly don’t understand the problems it can cause. Most never check for it or do this simple test - many don’t even know how to order the test or that the test even exists!!

“So what”, you might be thinking, “if I don’t know that I have it then what’s the problem?”

BIG problems, that’s what!!

Vitamin D Research is finding that Low Vitamin D is a VERY widespread problem that has a lot of serious consequences of which we are just beginning to understand.

Symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency

Scientists are just beginning to put all of the pieces together, but the first symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency could be:

• Colds and Flu

• Periodontal Disease and Cavities

• Depression and Seasonal Affective Disorder

• Osteoporosis

• Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy

• High blood pressure

• Lung cancer

• Ovarian cancer

• Colon Cancer

• Asthma

• Breast cancer

• Multiple Sclerosis

While these are complicated diseases and there are obviously other factors involved in any individual’s risk, it’s true that a common risk factor for each and every one of these diseases is a Low Vitamin D level!!

“Evidence continues to accumulate
of vitamin D's involvement in a
breathtaking array of human disease
and death.” – From
“On the epidemiology of influenza”.

While the Low Vitamin D levels found in these diseases doesn’t necessarily mean that they CAUSE these diseases, it begs the question of what the relationship is.

Remember that on the Vitamin D Facts page, we discussed the potent Immune System stimulation that Vitamin D is responsible for.

Since the above diseases (and really ALL diseases) are related to an inappropriate, inadequate or downright failed immune response – you can start to see that these diseases really could be just symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency.

Who is at risk for Symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency?

Unfortunately, a LOT of us are at risk. Probably even YOU.

And Vitamin D Research shows that a very significant percent of the population has hypovitaminosis D.

This Article that analyzed all of the available studies, called a metanalysis, concluded,

“Estimates of the prevalence of hypovitaminosis D ranged…[up] to 78%... Although overt vitamin D deficiency is no longer common in US children, lesser degrees of vitamin D insufficiency are widespread.”

Interestingly, the percentage of people with hypovitaminosis D may even be severely UNDERESTIMATED in these studies. The blood levels that were used as a cut off point for determining who was Vitamin D deficient were often MUCH lower than what is currently accepted as a ‘normal Vitamin D level’.

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