Bone - Health


Did you know?

Did you know?
  • A decades-long decrease in Vitamin D levels globally has greatly increased the prevalence of: rickets, stress fractures, bone fractures and hip fractures
  • Rickets is no longer prevented by just 400 IU of Vitamin D - 1200 IU is likely needed
  • Healthy bones need more than Vitamin D - and not just calcium:
    magnesium, vitamin K2, boron, silicon and protein are also essential
          (More bone info below)

Learn how Vitamin D is essential for good health
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  Browse for other Health Problems and D in left column or here
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If you have a disease associated with low Vit D take Vit D
Raising your Vit D levels will substantially prevent other low-Vit D health problems
Proof that Vitamin D Works   Getting Vitamin D into your blood and cells

Is 50ng enough?   How to restore levels quickly  VitaminDWiki interview and transcript - Lahore Jan 2022
Books and Videos 285   Diseases that may be related via low vitamin D
Reasons for low response to vitamin D   Why are doctors reluctant
Cancer studies include:   Breast 264   Colon 149   Lung 57   Prostate 109   Pancreatic 61   Skin 123
Colds and flu   Dark Skin 476   Diabetes 564   Obesity 453   Pregnancy 961   Seniors 440
COVID-19 treated by Vitamin D - studies, reports, videos

Bone Overview

319 items in Bone - Health category
See also


Calcium and Bone Health Supplements Review - Including Vit D, Vit K, Mg and Boron

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Bone and Magnesium categories


Bone and Vitamin K2 categories


Bone and Sports categories


Bone and Meta-analysis categories


Fractures/Falling and Meta-analysis categories


28+ VitaminDWiki Bone pages have RCT in the title

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Spinal fusion surgery greatly improved by Vitamin K2 - RCT May 2025 03 May, 2025
50,000 IU of Vitamin D weekly greatly decreased bone loss from prostate cancer therapy - RCT March 2024 24 Mar, 2024
2800 IU of Vitamin D in late pregnancy resulted in 3X fewer fractures, 4X fewer enamel defects in offspring – RCT Jan 2024 12 Feb, 2024
Bone fractures of children not reduced if given little vitamin D, no Calcium etc. – RCT May 2023 27 Aug, 2023
Faster growth in infants getting 1200 IU of Vitamin D – RCT July 2022 16 Jul, 2022
10,000 IU of Vitamin D for 3 years found to help bone by two measurement methods – RCT Feb 2022 28 Feb, 2022
Bone Mineral Density increased by Resveratrol (which activates the Vitamin D Receptor) – RCT Nov 2020 17 Feb, 2021
Bones of white children not helped by 1,000 IU of vitamin D (Northern latitudes) – RCT Sept 2018 05 Nov, 2019
Vitamin D and Calcium do not increase bone density (also need exercise, Mg, K2, protein etc.) – RCT Aug 2019 28 Aug, 2019
Less bone loss if take 100,000 IU vitamin D monthly – RCT Nov 2017 07 Jul, 2019
Resveratrol prevented bone loss associated with T2DM (probably via VDR) – RCT Sept 2018 29 Apr, 2019
Fetal bones helped a bit by 1,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Feb 2019 25 Feb, 2019
Bone STRENGTH improved by 2800 IU of Vitamin D (not bone density) – RCT Oct 2018 06 Oct, 2018
Bone density improved with resveratrol (which improves Vitamin D Receptor) – RCT Sept 2018 22 Sep, 2018
Adding just vitamin D again failed to add bone density (also need Magnesium, Vitamin K, etc) – RCT Aug 2018 24 Aug, 2018
Sickle Cell clinical trial will inject 300,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT due 2020 31 Jan, 2018
Breastfed infant bones not helped by 800 IU of Vitamin D (not enough) – RCT Dec 2017 12 Dec, 2017
Bones helped by Vitamin D, Physical Exercise, etc (this time - Bariatric Surgery) – RCT March 2016 30 Aug, 2017
Bone health not improved in 2 months of Vitamin D (need 6 months or loading dose) – RCT April 2017 10 Jun, 2017
Bone mineral density somewhat better with 3750 IU vs 600 IU Vitamin D (1 year, with Calcium) – RCT March 2017 10 Mar, 2017
Leg bone (tibia) grew thicker with 4,000 IU of vitamin D and Calcium – RCT Aug 2016 19 Aug, 2016
Bone loss not stopped by monthly 48,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT June 2016 14 Jun, 2016
More calcium in bones in those teenage girls getting 2,000 IUs daily – RCT Jan 2016 04 Feb, 2016
People with old burns improved muscle strength with 2200 IU average vitamin D – RCT Sept 2014 20 Dec, 2014
Increased Bone strength during military training – with just 800 IU of vitamin D and Calcium – RCT April 2014 29 Apr, 2014
Vitamin D for older people (VDOP) trial, with 48,000 IU per month – RCT started Fall 2012 25 Nov, 2013
Both Vitamin D and Calcium are needed to reduce bone loss – RCT Sept 2013 29 Sep, 2013
Hip bone loss stopped with 1000 IU of vitamin D, while 400 IU similar to placebo – RCT April 2013 17 Aug, 2013
Vitamin K-2 (180 ug MK-7) helped both bone density and strength – RCT March 2013 18 Apr, 2013

319 Bone studies


Bone studies are also listed in Osteoporosis 32, Falls & Fractures 29, Vitamin K2 9, Infant-Child 22, Intervention, 17, Sports, 17, Skin - Dark, 16, Magnesium 16, Calcium 15, Pregnancy 12, etc.

Youth 11, Trauma and surgery, 10, Deficiency, 9, Rickets 7, Seniors 7, Vitamin D Receptor 6, Veterinary, 6, How much Vitamin D 5, Women 5


10 Most-visited pages in Bone category in VitaminDWiki

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5149 Military and Vitamin D - many studies 508486
02 Oct, 2023 12:04
admin Deficiency of Vitamin D
Bone - Health
Trauma and surgery
6287 Sickle Cell treated by Vitamin D - many studies 436779
04 Sep, 2025 15:26
admin Skin - Dark
Bone - Health
10669 Orthopaedic surgeries need Vitamin D – many studies 312984
25 Jan, 2024 22:08
admin Bone - Health
Immunity
Trauma and surgery
974 Fewer bone and stress fractures with vitamin D - many studies 302978
02 May, 2025 23:23
admin Bone - Health
Sports and Vitamin D
Osteoporosis
Falls and Fractures
11217 Some Foot and ankle problems are treated by Vitamin D – many studies 282187
17 Aug, 2024 19:16
admin Bone - Health
Sports and Vitamin D
14377 Bone Mineral Density and Vitamin D - many studies 281446
04 Oct, 2024 19:08
admin Bone - Health
1393 Shin splints decrease with vitamin D 175856
17 Jul, 2023 18:14
Editor Bone - Health
Sports and Vitamin D
15488 New immigrant South Asian Indian men have worse Vitamin D and bones than Caucasians (US) – Sept 2024 142145
22 Aug, 2024 20:55
admin Bone - Health
1344 Overview Fractures and vitamin D 86726
11 Aug, 2023 20:19
admin Bone - Health
Osteoporosis
Vitamin D and Calcium
Overviews
Falls and Fractures
3387 Bone - Health 72242
14 Jul, 2024 02:51
ricks99 Bone - Health
Category
Associations
1328 Overview Osteoporosis and vitamin D 67462
25 Sep, 2023 19:59
admin Bone - Health
Osteoporosis
Vitamin D and Calcium
Overviews
3769 Ankylosing spondylitis and low vitamin D – many studies 53208
23 Dec, 2024 12:21
admin Bone - Health
Autoimmune
7450 MAGNESIUM IN MAN - IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH AND DISEASE – review 2015 51338
08 Jan, 2023 14:03
admin Bone - Health
Breathing
Pregnancy
Diabetes
Depression
Vitamin D and Magnesium
Parkinson
Cystic Fibrosis
Hypertension
Stroke
1343 Cola Soft Drinks reduce Calcium, Vitamin D, and Magnesium - many studies 46865
22 Sep, 2025 22:35
admin Deficiency of Vitamin D
Bone - Health
Vitamin D and Calcium
2179 BONE SPURS not produced if have enough Vitamin D3, Vitamin K2, etc. – Nov 2011 42706
23 Jun, 2012 13:48
admin Bone - Health
Vitamin D and Vitamin K
1099 Blacks may not need as much Vitamin D (for their bones) 33487
07 Jul, 2018 10:56
admin Skin - Dark
Bone - Health
Genetics
2768 Healthy bones need: Calcium, Vitamin D, Magnesium, Silicon, Vitamin K, and Boron – 2012 30622
11 Aug, 2023 12:30
admin Bone - Health
Supplement
Osteoporosis
Vitamin D and Magnesium
Vitamin D and Vitamin K
Vitamin D and Boron
Vitamin C
915 Statin-induced Myalgias corrected with 100000 weekly Vitamin D2 24789
20 Jul, 2017 17:34
admin Bone - Health
Intervention
7857 Osteosarcopenic obesity (obese with low bone and muscle mass) twice as likely if low vitamin D – Oct 2016 24744
31 Jan, 2017 16:43
admin Bone - Health
Obesity
10074 Army Training trying performance readiness bars with 1400 IU of Vitamin D (Dr. Matthews) – Sept 2018 24289
12 Oct, 2019 19:09
admin Bone - Health
Fortification with Vitamin D
Increased use of D
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