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Lower back pain? A vitamin D supplement may help
If your lower back is constantly bothering you without doctors being able to find a satisfactory explanation, your vitamin D level may be too low. There is a link between low back pain and low vitamin D levels.
Study
When the doctors measured the patients' vitamin D levels, it turned out that 83 percent had too low a vitamin D level of less than 22.5 nanomoles.
90 percent of the patients were female. The reason for that is obvious. In Saudi Arabia, women wear clothes outdoors that hide the body from view and sunlight. Since sunlight is the main source of vitamin D, it is likely that many Saudi women have low vitamin D levels.
Supplementation
The approach worked. 100 percent of patients with vitamin D levels less than 22.5 nanomoles reported significant improvement. In the other back patients, this was the case in 69 percent of the subjects.
The Saudis did not use a control group that received a placebo. That's a pity then.
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