Calcium and vitamin-D (Ca/VitD) deficiency is a major risk factor for osteoporosis. It may also contribute to the compromised bone healing frequently observed in osteoporotic patients, since calcium is essential for fracture-callus mineralization. Additi
Finally, one additional note: vitamin D3and K are both fat soluble – meaning they require some fat to be absorbed in the bloodstream. So a low fat diet (like the kind we’ve all been advised to eat for the last 20 years) may impair your body’s ability to absorb these two vitamins...
the results also reflected that the serum vit.D3 is not associated with a decline in calcium absorption, but the unresponsiveness of the small intestinal mucosa towards the absorption of calcium plays a vital role in older age of the population rather than the synthesis of vitamin D3 [18Nordin...