Vitamin D

When Vitamin D Sends You to the Hospital: Real Published Cases of Hypervitaminosis D — and What They Should Teach Us

Vitamin D

When Vitamin D Sends You to the Hospital: Real Published Cases of Hypervitaminosis D — and What They Should Teach Us

Yoon Hang Kim, MD, MPH    •    www.directintegrativecare.com Vitamin D is one of the most studied, most prescribed, and most self-administered nutrients of the last two decades, and for good reason. Adequate vitamin D status supports bone integrity, immune regulation, cardiovascular function, insulin sensitivity, and numerous processes that touch nearly

By Yoon Hang Kim MD
Vitamin D as a Mast Cell–Modulating Hormone:Mechanistic Evidence, Clinical Implications, and Relevance to Mast Cell Activation Syndrome

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Vitamin D as a Mast Cell–Modulating Hormone:Mechanistic Evidence, Clinical Implications, and Relevance to Mast Cell Activation Syndrome

Yoon Hang “John” Kim, MD, MPH Board-Certified in Preventive Medicine | Integrative & Functional Medicine MD www.directintegrativecare.com Abstract Vitamin D has emerged as a pleiotropic immunomodulatory hormone with significant effects on mast cell biology. Mast cells, which are central effectors in allergic disease and increasingly recognized as drivers of

By Yoon Hang Kim MD