Author: Sarah Doyle
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Vitamin D deficiency: 70% of people have it and most doctors don’t test for it right
If you got a standard blood test recently and your vitamin D came back “normal,” there’s a meaningful chance it wasn’t. The thresholds most labs use to define sufficiency were calibrated primarily against bone outcomes — specifically rickets and osteomalacia, the severe deficiency diseases — not against the full range of things vitamin D does…