This review found that the need for vitamin D in athletes is well established and that vitamin D acts throughout the body to impact a wide variety of health impacts central to peak physical performance including bone and muscle function, immunity, inflammation and respiratory function, protection from injury and disability, and recovery from bone and soft-tissue damage.
Performance & Recovery
Vitamin D and the athlete–patient: state of the art
Journal of ISAKOS
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Performance & Recovery
Athletes with sufficient vitamin D levels showed greater muscle strength, power, and exercise capacity — and less inflammation and pain — a review of the research found.
Nutrition Research Reviews
Performance & Recovery
Sports Health Benefits of Vitamin D
Sports Health
This review article found a strong correlation between vitamin D sufficiency and optimal muscle function. They found that increasing levels of vitamin D reduced inflammation, pain, and myopathy while increasing muscle protein synthesis, ATP concentration, strength, jump height, jump velocity, jump power, exercise capacity, and physical performance.
Performance & Recovery
Sports Health Benefits of Vitamin D
Sports Health
This review article found a strong correlation between vitamin D sufficiency and optimal muscle function. They found that increasing levels of vitamin D reduced inflammation, pain, and myopathy while increasing muscle protein synthesis, ATP concentration, strength, jump height, jump velocity, jump power, exercise capacity, and physical performance.
Performance & Recovery
Vitamin D and Its Role on the Fatigue Mitigation: A Narrative Review
Nutrients
This review discusses how vitamin D impacts fatigue through biochemical factors connected to oxidative stress and inflammatory cytokines, neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin, and control of voltage-gated calcium and chloride channels.
Performance & Recovery
Vitamin D and Its Role on the Fatigue Mitigation: A Narrative Review
Nutrients
This review discusses how vitamin D impacts fatigue through biochemical factors connected to oxidative stress and inflammatory cytokines, neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin, and control of voltage-gated calcium and chloride channels.