One hopes it doesn't only apply to adolescent girls.
For this study, researchers followed 99 adolescent girls between the ages of 12 and 14 years. Ward and her colleagues took blood samples to measure the girls' serum levels of vitamin D. Many of these girls were found to have low levels of vitamin D despite not presenting any symptoms.
Researchers used a novel outcome measure called jumping mechanography to measure muscle power and force. Jumping mechanography derives power and force measurements from a subject's performance in a series of jumping activities. Ward says this method of testing is ideal as the muscles required to jump are those most often affected in subjects with vitamin D deficiency. Girls without vitamin D deficiency performed significantly better in these tests.
"Vitamin D affects the various ways muscles work and we've seen from this study that there may be no visible symptoms of vitamin D deficiency," said Ward. "Further studies are needed to address this problem and determine the necessary levels of vitamin D for a healthy muscle system."
Study: Vitamin D tied to muscle power in adolescent girls
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So eat your fish boys and girls.
So the best advice is to get plenty of sunshine to naturally elevated vitamin D levels I guess.
You might take a look at some of my other posts on Vit D:
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-7567464628287373%3Awin3yvc67zs&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=vitamin+D&sa=Search
For most people, supplementation will likely be necessary.
Dr. Cannell talked about vitamin D and athletic performance in one of his newsletters a couple years ago. You can take a look at it here: http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/2007-mar.shtml
Seems perfectly reasonable.
Love the blog.
David
Interesting to note that the old Eastern Block countries supplemented their Olympic athletes heavily with vitamin D, even while "supplementing" with some other, more nefarious, substances. They felt vitamin D was that important.
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