Elite Athletes Try a New Training Tactic: More Vitamin D - WSJ

Elite Athletes Try a New Training Tactic: More Vitamin D

Wall Street Journal Jan 25, 2016

Subtitle: Pro and college teams, including the Steelers, Red Wings and USC, think the nutrient may help players avoid injury, among other benefits

• "A 2011 study of the New York Giants, presented at a meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, found an association between low vitamin D levels and injuries. "

• "Ms. McDowell aims to get her hockey players’ vitamin D levels between 40 and 80 nanograms per milliliter. "

• "One study, of more than 5,000 female U.S. Navy recruits, found a 20% drop in stress fractures after recruits received doses of calcium and vitamin D."

• "Even the University of Southern California, where sunshine abounds, checks its varsity athletes’ vitamin D levels annually. Despite all that sun, more than one-third of 223 USC athletes tested for a study published in 2015 had insufficient vitamin D levels."

• "The USC study, along with those of the Giants and Steelers, showed African-American athletes tend to have lower vitamin D levels. "

See also VitaminDWiki

• Doctors Say Top Athletes Take Vitamin D And So Should You - CBS News Feb 2016

• The Importance of Vitamin D for Athletes - 2015

• NCAA athletes – one third had low levels of vitamin D, 19X more likely if black race – March 2015

• Professional soccer players with more vitamin D had better body parameters – 2014

• Many athletes now advised to take daily vitamin D supplements – Aug 2014

• Sunshine is a cure for “weak and soft muscles” – 425 BC

• Recent increase in Vitamin D levels in Elite Irish Athletes – Aug 2016

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