Vitamin D Doesn’t Help Knee Pain.

I don’t know if any of my readers are taking vitamin D for aching joints, and knee pain in particular. But this story on the medpage today.com website by John Gever seems to say you are wasting your time.

Now we all know that vitamin D is essential for strong bones, and in fact poor diet and lack of vitamin D in particular meant that rickets was rife in the late 19th and early 20th century.

This article mentions a randomised trial of patients with knee osteoarthritis where a large intake of vitamin D appeared to reduce pain scores.

However the results were not statistically significant, and the conclusion was that taking large amounts of vitamin D did not translate into a better outcome for those with knee osteoarthritis.

To read the full story in more detail use this link. I would of course be interested to hear of any readers experiences taking vitamin D.