Can vitamin D help prevent or reverse COPD?
The answer is NO. The postulated medical benefits of vitamin
D continue unabated. Every week, there is a new study which shows that vitamin
D can cure an illness. For some time researchers have been postulating that
people who smoke and have exacerbations of their COPD may be vitamin D
deficient. Some people with COPD have been found to have a deficiency of
vitamin D but it is not known if this is due to a poor diet or a result of the
COPD. Thus, vitamin D supplementation has
been proposed to treat patients who have COPD and other related
manifestations.
For the moment, vitamin D is useful for the treatment of
osteoporosis in post menopausal women. Its role in the treatment of COPD is
still debated. For consumers with COPD, it is important to eat a diet with
adequate amounts of vitamin D and discontinue smoking. Reliance on any one
supplement for good health is foolish.
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