Last year, a large study came out on vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acid supplements, supporting earlier findings that routine use of these supplements has little if any value for healthy people. Now, Elissa Welle reports for Stat News on a new study further finding that vitamin D supplements do not make for healthy bones or prevent bone fractures in older age. You should aim to get your vitamin D from the sun, fatty acids and mushrooms.
The new New England Journal of Medicine study dives deep into whether vitamin D supplements offer any value against bone fractures to specific subpopulations of mid-life and older adults. They found that vitamin D supplements did nothing to reduce the number of bone fractures. No one, whether from different race and ethnic groups, of different weights and body types, or of different ages, appeared to have any bone benefits from taking vitamin D supplements.
Vitamin D supplements alone are not going to help with bone health. You should try to get your vitamin D naturally, through exposure to sunlight and eating fatty fish and mushrooms. The VITAL study, released last year, found that 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily did not reduce people’s risk of bone fracture over five years. Among the 1,551 who took either a vitamin D supplement or a placebo, fracture rates were similar.
The VITAL study also found that taking vitamin D supplements offered no benefit in reducing your risk of cancer and heart disease. Taking vitamin D supplements is likely a waste of money.
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