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Can vitamin D deficiency stunt growth in teens?
Canada-U.S. study recommends in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism recommends young people be screened for low vitamin D levels. Insufficient vitamin D can stunt growth and foster weight gain during puberty, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Can lack of vitamin D affect height?
Conclusions: We found that vitamin D insufficiency is associated with increased BF and decreased height but not changes in peak bone mass.
Can I grow taller if I take vitamin D?
One small study found that giving children with low vitamin D levels a vitamin D supplement resulted in increased growth over a 6-month period ( 33 ). What’s more, one study in 874 children observed that regularly eating eggs was associated with increased monthly height gains ( 34 ).
Does vitamin D affect height growth?
The big factor in height growth that Vitamin D can affect is that it is involved in regulating cellular proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis (all three of which occur in the growth plate). But you’d need a Vitamin D mutation to get altered growth.
Do vitamins help you grow taller?
The big vitamin that people point to when height growth is involved is Vitamin D. Vitamin D is needed for bone growth but as Vitamin D is not a regulator of bone growth supra-maximal levels of Vitamin D will not result in supra-maximal bone growth.
Is it possible to increase your height after you die?
But you’d need a Vitamin D mutation to get altered growth. Vitamin D is the most promising Vitamin aside from Vitamin B12 (which helps to regulate DNA synthesis which can affect everything) that could affect height growth. Although obviously, you can’t increase your height when you’re dead and all Vitamins help you live.
What happens if a child is deficient in vitamin D?
Severe lack of vitamin D causes rickets, which shows up in children as incorrect growth patterns, weakness in muscles, pain in bones and deformities in joints. This is very rare. However, children who are deficient in vitamin D can also have muscle weakness or sore and painful muscles.