Vitamin D Parkinsons Disease

According to various ongoing and past medical researches, there is a significant correlation between Parkinson’s disease and vitamin D insufficiency.



In fact, Parkinson’s disease is often tied to lower levels of vitamin D in the blood. Archives of Neurology will vouch for the veracity of this statement.
Researchers employed by Archives of Neurology decided to conduct a comparative study of 100 healthy adults, 100 patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and 100 patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease, keeping a check that all these 300 patients are of the same age.


Blood samples were taken from each and cultured and the results showed that 36% of the adults who were healthy suffered from a vitamin D insufficiency, in the Alzheimer’s disease patients, the figures rose up to 41% while the Parkinson’s patients showed the highest level of vitamin D insufficiency, peaking at 55%.


There is a subtle difference between vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency of the same. In case of the latter, the vitamin D levels are lower than that found in individuals suffering from insufficiency of vitamin D.


The study revealed that even in case of vitamin D deficiency, the Parkinson’s patients registered the highest percentage – 23% as opposed to 10% of healthy adults and 16% of Alzheimer’s patients. Here factors like gender or age or APOE gene mutation’s presence or absence (in case of Alzheimer’s) do not matter.


Is there really a correlation between vitamin D and Parkinson’s disease?
A beneficial, benign addition to an individual’s health system is what vitamin D is supposed to be, according to scientists and medical researchers. The substantia nigra embedded deep within the brain is the area which is most vulnerable to attack by Parkinson’s disease and when 80% of the neurons in the substantia nigra die out, the symptoms and signs of Parkinson’s disease become visible outwardly.


You would be surprised to know that there are high levels of receptors of vitamin D within that substantia nigra , which in short means vitamin D is required if the substantia nigra is to function at the optimal level. On the basis of this hypothesis, various kinds of research were carried out by different schools of medics and the common conclusion was there is a definite correlation existing between Parkinson’s disease and deficiency of vitamin D.

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