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Researchers have discovered a vital link between Vitamin D and controlling diabetes symptoms, especially in patients who are obese.

The way obesity affects Vitamin D is that it makes the body unable to absorb and use the Vitamin D effectively.  When Vitamin D is deficient in a person’s metabolism, the results include insulin resistance and beta cell dysfunction.  This creates a vicious cycle, as the obesity continues to get worse, the insulin resistance increases, the beta cell dysfunction worsens and the Vitamin D deficiency also gets worse.

New studies suggest that increasing the amount of Vitamin D in the body, even by taking Vitamin D orally, could substantially decrease the body’s resistance to insulin, but could also reduce various cardiac problems.

More importantly, Vitamin D has the potential to eliminate diabetes in many cases.  Since type 2 diabetes involves insulin deficiency and Vitamin D is significantly involved in improving the function of the pancreas as well as improving the release of insulin, using Vitamin D to help achieve this could dramatically improve the health of scores of individuals with diabetes.

In addition to this information, Vitamin D is present in the nucleus of beta cells, which provides evidence that using Vitamin D could help them function better and help them release insulin more efficiently without causing inflammation.  Since Vitamin D is an anti-inflammatory, it would be effective in eliminating or avoiding inflammation leading to toxicity in the cells.

One test that was performed with Vitamin D was to give over 10,000 children in Finland 2,000 units of Vitamin D during their first year of life.  This resulted in a 78% reduction of developing type 1diabetes.  The study was followed up for 31 years.

These studies suggest that obese patients with diabetes or patients with a family history of diabetes should be screened for Vitamin D deficiency.  If they are deficient, prescribing daily doses of Vitamin D could control, prevent or eliminate their diabetes and at the very least, help them live a healthier life.