Health studies of vitamin D by: Mini Tangas

Besides a pretty vital role in maintaining bone density to be strong and not easy to osteoporosis, vitamin D, it also has influence on the speed of our thinking, especially men. This is based on research published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.

The study examines the health of more than 3100 men aged 40 years and over in 8 cities in Europe, namely Florence, Leuven, Lodz, Poland; Malmo, Manchester, Santiago de Compostela, Szeged, Hungary, and Tartu.




The researchers took blood samples throughout the adam is to determine vitamin D levels in the blood. Then the patisipan required to do 3 tests to test the speed of thought, namely the visual memory, visual recognition and speed of processing visual information.

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The result is surprising, those with vitamin D levels low in the blood turned out to have poor scores on tests of visual recognition and visual information processing.

One researcher David Lee, PhD, MPH from England's University of Manchester say that these findings may be related to geographical conditions for the best for our bodies to produce vitamin D when exposed to the sun's rays, they are living place with little sunlight produce less vitamin D, which in turn will affect the results of this research.