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Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "
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Supplement with vitamin D reduces pain in rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatic patients can reduce the pain in their joints by several tens of percent if they take vitamin D supplements. Astronomical dosages are not necessary.
Study 1 | Mega dose
The subjects also used NSAIDs if necessary to control the pain. Their NSAIDs use was stable.
During the 8 weeks that the trial lasted, the subjects in the control group took a daily supplement containing 1 gram of calcium. The subjects in the experimental group did the same, but they also took a weekly supplement that supplied 60,000 vitamin IU or 8,500 micrograms of D3. This is a very high dose, which you should not take without medical supervision.
Slightly more than 30 percent of the subjects were vitamin D deficient. In the case of this study, that means that their vitamin D level was lower than 20 nanograms per milliliter. That is the same as 50 nanomoles per litre.
In the control group, pain was reduced by 30 percent. In the vitamin D group, pain was reduced by 80 percent, which is 50 percent more.
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Study 2 | Modest dose
Gopinath and Danda's trial was similar to Mukherjee's in almost everything, but there were some differences. No less than 68 percent of the subjects in the Gopinath and Danda trial were vitamin D deficient, the trial lasted 3 months and the subjects in the experimental group took 500 IE or 12.5 micrograms of vitamin D3 daily.
In the control group, pain was reduced by 30 percent. In the experimental group, pain was reduced by 50 percent.
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