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Vitamin D only works optimally when sufficient magnesium is present in the body. An often-overlooked nutrient interaction crucial for proper supplementation.
Nutrients
Vitamin D only works optimally when sufficient magnesium is present in the body. An often-overlooked nutrient interaction crucial for proper supplementation.
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Our blog now has over 700 published articles. Quite a lot accumulated over the past seven years since edubily was founded. But some articles no longer exist. At least not in the blog or publicly accessible. They've disappeared — for different reasons.
For example, a whole series of ancient blog posts from 2014. They seemed inappropriate to us anymore. So out they went. But that's only half the truth: Eventually they'll come back, for example as an ebook. There are also articles from 2018 that have disappeared. We'd like to introduce you to one of them today, because the topic is so important.
The topic is: Vitamin D, or rather optimal Vitamin D function. The usual talk is well-known: Vitamin D isn't really a vitamin, well yes it is, but the active version of Vitamin D is a hormone. It binds to the Vitamin D receptor in cells ... and does wonderful things there, for example a stable immune system and so forth. Still not widely known is the fact:
Vitamin D only works if there's enough magnesium in your body.
Wow. Taking Vitamin D or monitoring the right levels is one thing. Having magnesium in your body so that Vitamin D works properly is another. Therefore, the article:
A paper has just come out that shows us:
Well, well! Talk about a coincidence. We need other essential micronutrients for a substance to work, you say?! Great insight. And of all things, magnesium.
The co-author of the paper, a professor of pathology, stated on [source no longer available]:
"People use Vitamin D supplements, but don't understand how it's metabolized. Without magnesium, Vitamin D isn't particularly helpful or safe. Patients with optimal magnesium levels need less Vitamin D."
In the paper itself, we find some nice facts:
Then there are some other noteworthy facts, such as the estimate that approximately 50 % of the US population don't get adequate magnesium.
We can see what Vitamin D, in summary, has to do with magnesium in the following graphic:
The key points of this graphic, summarized:
With that, everything has been said. As for nutrient interactions ... [source no longer available].
