Vitamin D

Taking vitamins without checking if you even need them? It might be dangerous

An excess of vitamins is not "healthier" – sometimes it can even be dangerous. Here is everything you need to know.

Vitamins
 The surprising ways vitamin D impacts your health.

The surprising ways vitamin D impacts your health

 D3 gel capsules.

Vitamin D supplements slow telomere shortening, reducing biological aging

 Beilinson Hospital from the Clalit Health Services prepares to welcome more released hostages.

Nutritional deficiencies of hostages in Gaza: Medical concerns for the released


This popular supplement can increase your risk of developing cancer

Nutritional supplements may, in some cases, improve your health and reduce the risk of disease, but in other cases they may do the opposite and put you at risk.

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COVID: Vitamin D deficiency pre-infection may lead to severe corona case

Official study results showed that those with Vitamin D deficiency were 14 times more likely to have severe or critical cases of COVID-19.

Healthy Eating: Vitamin D saves the day

Is calcium no longer absorbed into your body as it once was?

As the years go by, our body has a hard time utilizing the calcium it receives and directing it to the desired places. This leads to a decrease in bone density. What should we do?

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Vitamin D deficient people 20% more likely to die from COVID-19 - study

Dr. Amir Bashkin said that 26% of people who had a pre-infection level of vitamin D of 20 ng/mL died, compared to 3% of those who had higher levels of vitamin D - a difference of 23%.

People sit and drink coffee in the sun as Israel reopens its economy after COVID-19 restrictions

Women using certain dietary supplements at lower risk for COVID-19 - study

The study noted that similar results were also observed by teams performing parallel studies in Sweden and the United States.

Vitamin D laying on the table with prescription bottle behind them.

Vitamin D deficiency linked to increased risk for COVID-19

The Health Ministry has been recommending vitamin D since the outbreak of the pandemic.

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Antibodies, Remdesivir, Vitamin D: Unpacking Trump’s COVID-19 treatment

Trump received a single eight-gram dose of Regeneron's polyclonal antibody cocktail, REG-COV2, Conley said, and the company confirmed in a statement sent to "The Jerusalem Post."

U.S. President Trump walks to the Marine One helicopter wearing a protective face mask as he departs the White House to fly to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

What I want to believe about COVID-19

It’s gotten so confusing. What’s safe and what’s not safe anymore?

IT’S NOW being reported that patients with some of the most severe symptoms had particularly low levels of Vitamin D

Insufficient vitamin D increases risk of severe COVID-19, says new study

Vitamin D has long been understood to impact immune response.

Vitamin D laying on the table with prescription bottle behind them.