Winter means less time in the sun, but there are foods that can help you get the vitamin D your body needs to function.

You’ve likely heard about vitamin D’s important role in maintaining strong bones and teeth. But it also plays several other important roles to keep your body healthy – including the function of your ...

Eggs offer some vitamin D, but these nutrient-dense foods deliver far more of the sunshine vitamin to support bone strength, ...

Vitamin D alone may not be enough for bone health. Nutritionists explain why magnesium is essential to activate vitamin D and ...

Medically reviewed by Patricia Mikula, PharmD Key Takeaways Vitamin D supports immune cells but supplements might not prevent ...

Discover the benefits of each and whether you should take one over the other. There are few nutrients that've been more in the spotlight than vitamin D. Also called the “sunshine vitamin” (since our ...

In a definitive critical review, scientists at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland ask whether there is convincing biological or behavioral evidence linking vitamin D deficiency to brain ...

Doctors explain why vitamin D supplements may not work properly if your kidneys are unhealthy, and how kidney function ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For this study, we recruited 213 children and adolescents from South Florida, ...

Higher concentrations of 25(OH)D 3-- the main form of vitamin D assessed in the study -- in four areas of the brain were tied to 25% to 33% lower odds of dementia or mild cognitive impairment, ...