Abstract

Vitamin D Malabsorption and Defective 25- Hydroxylation: A New Outlook with Regard to the Cause of Current Hypovitaminosis D Epidemic

Highlights

  • Human’s vitamin D requirement is supplied by two main sources: D2(ergocalciferol) and D3(cholecalciferol)

  • The cause and consequence relationship between hypovitaminosis D and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been taken so seriously that in a recently published paper by Papapostoli and the co-workers, even fourweek vitamin D supplement resulted in significant NAFLD regression [17], or the story of rapid symptomatic reversal of type-1 diabetes neuropathy through correction of vitamin D deficiency [18]

  • How to accept that almost all current human health- related issues directly stem from a simple micronutrient deficiency in the diet, and we, are standing stock-still doing nothing about it? The galloping incidence and the alarming prevalence of metabolic syndrome, obesity, NAFLD, T2DM and cardiovascular disease have put the human life on the edge of a certain catastrophe, and we address the whole problem to be merely on account of vitamin D shortage in human diet

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Introduction

Human’s vitamin D requirement is supplied by two main sources: D2(ergocalciferol) and D3(cholecalciferol). As many other reports, revealed a strong association between metabolic syndrome and 25 hydroxy vitamin D deficiency.

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