Vitamin D can lower weight, blood sugar via the brain, study finds

[Northerner]

Vitamin D treatment acts in the brain to improve weight and blood glucose (sugar) control in obese rats, according to a new study. "Vitamin D deficiency occurs often in obese people and in patients with Type 2 diabetes, yet no one understands if it contributes to these diseases," said the study's principal investigator. A region of the brain called the hypothalamus controls both weight and glucose, and has vitamin D receptors there.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140623092023.htm

 

[trophywench]

LOL - I take Vit D cos I am deficient, one heck of a lot of people in England are, unbeknown to most of them.

I have not noticed that I have lost weight.

But then, I am neither obese nor a rat ........

🙂