Yourwellness Magazine Explores Relationship Between Tiredness and Vitamin D
London, UK (PRWEB UK) 31 July 2013 -- On the third day of Wimbledon (26th of June), seven players were forced out with injury, but an eighth player withdrew from the tournament due to 'tiredness'. While retiring in the fifth set of his clash against Croatian Ivan Dodig, Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber cited 'tiredness' as the reason. Since then, however, the German has revealed that he was suffering the effects of flu, which is why he felt unable to continue. (http://www.mid-day.com/sports/2013/jun/260613-tennis-10-players-pull-out-of-wimbledon-9-injury-one-tiredness.htm)
With this in mind, Yourwellness Magazine commented on a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (http://www.aasmnet.org/jcsm/ViewAbstract.aspx?pid=27490), which found a link between daytime tiredness and levels of vitamin D, and also that race may be an important factor too. According to Yourwellness Magazine, “While it has been suggested in the past that levels of vitamin D could play a part in how tired we feel during the day, the study has revealed that the relationship might be somewhat more complicated than had previously been predicted.” (http://www.yourwellness.com/2013/02/tired-during-the-day-vitamin-d-could-be-to-blame/)
Yourwellness Magazine explained that while the study found that, in most patients, there was a correlation between increasing levels of daytime sleepiness with decreasing levels of vitamin D in the body, among black patients the higher levels of daytime sleepiness correlated with higher levels of vitamin D. Yourwellness Magazine noted that this was based on a group of 81 sleep clinic patients who complained of sleep problems and non-specific pain, and the researchers determined the patients’ levels of vitamin D through blood tests, while the levels of sleepiness were determined by using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale.
Yourwellness Magazine commented that it is known that race can play an issue in levels of vitamin D, because skin pigmentation can have an enormous effect of the body’s ability to absorb sunlight. However, even though the researchers asserted that this is the first study that has shown a significant link between daytime sleepiness and a lack of vitamin D, more studies would be required to confirm and investigate the surprising race-related results.
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Michael Kitt, Yourwellness Publishing Ltd, http://www.yourwellness.com, 0208 588 9553, [email protected]
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