Journal article
Vitamin D and Exercise Performance
ACSM's health & fitness journal, v 18(3)
01 Jun 2014
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Abstract
Vitamin D has been a "hot topic" for a number of years, and more physicians are having their patients get their blood levels of vitamin D tested to ensure that they are not vitamin D deficient. Vitamin D is a required nutrient, but it also is a secosteroid hormone (a secosteroid has a "broken ring" on its structure). The basic definition of a hormone is that it is produced in one area of the body but elicits its effects on another part of the body. Vitamin D is synthesized in the liver and the kidneys. The more active forms of vitamin D are synthesized in the kidney (calcitriol or 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, the most active form); however, the vitamin D that is synthesized in the liver (25-hydroxyvitamin D or calcidiol) is the form measured in the blood because of its longer half-life. This means that it stays in the blood longer than the other forms of vitamin D and, thus, can be better measured.
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- Title
- Vitamin D and Exercise Performance
- Creators
- Stella Volpe
- Publication Details
- ACSM's health & fitness journal, v 18(3)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Nutrition Sciences
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000334922000008
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84899751481
- Other Identifier
- 991019173768104721
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