Rheumatoid Arthritis: Another New Use of Vitamin D

It seems like every day they discover another new use for vitamin D. Once thougt of only for bones, vitamin D is now known to help everything from cancer and heart disease to back pain, depression and multiple sclerosis. And now a new study has added another new use of vitamin D: rheumatoid arthritis. . . .

This open-label study included 150 people with rheumatoid arthritis who were already on medication. When they had their vitamin D levels measured, 49% of them turned out to have low levels. The ones with low vitamin D were then given 60,000IU of vitamin D a month for twelve weeks.

At the end of the twelve weeks, 80.8% of the people were available to have their arthritis assessed. The researchers found that, not only had their vitamin D levels improved significantly, but that their rheumatoid arthritis disease activity had improved significantly.

This study adds vitamin D to the list of supplements that could help give relief from the potentially crippling pain of rheumatoid arthritis.

Int J Rheum Dis 2015;doi:10.1111/1756-185X.12770

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