Common chemicals found in everyday products tend to reduce vitamin D levels in bloodstream

Common chemicals found in everyday products tend to reduce vitamin D levels in bloodstream
Certain common chemicals found in things like plastic bottles may reduce levels of vitamin D in the bloodstream.

The participants provided blood samples so their vitamin D levels could be measured. To measure EDC exposure, the participants had their urine analysed for substances left behind after the body metabolised phthalates and BPA. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism , found people who were exposed to larger amounts of phthalates were more likely to have low levels of vitamin D in the bloodstream than the participants who were exposed to smaller amounts of the EDCs. The link was strongest in women. There also was an association between exposure to higher levels of BPA and reduced vitamin D levels in women, although the relationship was not statistically significant in men. ‘More research is needed into why an association exists, but it is possible that EDCs alter the active form of vitamin D in the body through some of the same mechanisms that they use to impact similar reproductive and thyroid hormones,’ senior author of the study John Meeker, Professor at the University of Michigan, explained. (Read: 6 signs you have vitamin D deficiency)

Source: IANS

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