New Evidence That Vitamin D Helps Prevent Dementia [Video]

Dementia has been making rounds on social media these days ever since Hollywood star Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia last month. So many things have been said about the condition, and most, if not all, were negative. But this week, new evidence emerged on an easy way to prevent the development of dementia.

A new large-scale study published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring found that vitamin D supplements can help lower the risk of dementia. 

“Despite the association of vitamin D deficiency with incident dementia, the role of supplementation is unclear. We prospectively explored associations between vitamin D supplementation and incident dementia in 12,388 dementia-free persons from the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center,” the research team wrote. 

Study participants had a mean age of 71. They were dementia-free when they signed up to the program used for the study by researchers from the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss …