Apr 26 2010
New Study Suggests Vitamin D is Better than Vaccines at Preventing Flu
The Times of London recently published an article covering the effects of Vitamin D in children as a flu preventative. While it may not be a huge surprise to those of you who regularly frequent this blog, to much of the medical scientific community, it is.
Researchers at Japan’s Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo conducted the double blind, fully randomized study during the 2008-2009 winter season. All said, 354 children whom participated in the study were administered 1200 IUs of either vitamin D or placebo for a 3-month period. By the second month of the test, the research team began to notice some initial changes in the experimental group as compared to the control sample.
Even though the original write-up found in the Times does a great job of summarizing the overall findings of the study, here is the official conclusion from the researchers:
It doesn’t get much more straight forward than that.
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