Older adults with low vitamin D levels – and that accounts for most of them – might lose their memories and thinking abilities faster than those with normal vitamin D levels, researchers say… “There is a recent and growing literature on the associations between vitamin D status and risk of Alzheimer’s disease/dementia, cognitive decline and brain atrophy,” said Dr. Joshua W. Miller of Rutgers University… In the new study, the researchers looked at blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, the form generated when the body converts vitamin D made in the skin in response to sunlight and consumed in foods such as eggs, oily fish and milk.
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