Vitamin D
Vitamin D lowers blood pressure
In an article on www.mercola.com, a natural health website, Dr Joseph Mercola wrote that “Research has recently found that vitamin D has a protective effect against arterial stiffness and impaired blood vessel relaxation.”
Researchers at the Emory/GeorgiaTech Predictive Health Institute have presented findings that people with vitamin D deficiency had vascular dysfunction comparable to those with diabetes or hypertension.
Senior citizens, in general, have been found to be the most deficient.
Most of the body’s vitamin D is produced after exposure to the sun; however, there are some foods rich in, or fortified with, vitamin D and nutritional supplements are available.
Taken from Breakspear Hospital Medical Bulletin issue 28 Summer 2011
