Low vitamin D 'Parkinson's link'

[knightofalbion]

Having low vitamin D levels may increase a persons risk of developing Parkinson's disease later in life, say Finnish researchers.
Their study of 3,000 people, published in Archives of Neurology, found people with the lowest levels of the sunshine vitamin had a three-fold higher risk.
Vitamin D could be helping to protect the nerve cells gradually lost by people with the disease, say experts
- BBC Ceefax July 2010