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Sometimes we get so excited with vitamineral pills we forget that our body too is capable of synthesizing these vitamins. Guess which vitamin or mineral is that? TO PARAPHRASE a Yiddish proverb: “Even a dog without teeth attacks a bone.” It seems nature has something against the bone eventually, hasn’t it? The United States Institute of Medicine set the daily recommended intake of calcium for people aging 19 to 50 years at 1,000 milligrams (one gram). Studies in the past agreed that at the age of 30 bones in the body start depleting itself, and in order for the person to make up for these loss enough dose of dietary calcium must be taken in. The question is: Do we take calcium alone? Or, should we take it with vitamin D? Professor of orthopedics at the University Of Rochester Medical Center in New York J. Edward Puzas MD, according to Gina Shaw of WebMD, believed that consuming vitamin D with calcium “doesn’t hurt you, but it’s not particularly beneficial, either.” The medi

A recent study pointed to a vitamin as a factor that may result to or contribute to the appearance of narcolepsy. A RESEARCH report published last year, uncovered a drop of vitamin D level in patients with narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC). Bertrand Carlander and six colleagues from the National Reference Network for Narcolepsy (NRNN) noted that vitamin D level in the blood of patients with NC only have 59.45 nanomole per liter (nm/L) compared to healthy people who register 74.73 nmol/L. NRNN is a reference desk for narcolepsy of the Hopital Gui-de-Chauliac Department of Neurology in Montepellier, France. Vitamin D has been known for its role in... [ READ MORE ]  This article appears in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 18 January 2012.