Vitamins Good For Joint Pain
A reader asks Joe and Terry Graedon from The People's Pharmacy why doctors don't check patients' vitamin D levels during physicals. The reader has been struggling with joint pain that greatly improved after he began taking vitamin D supplements. The Graedons respond with information about conditions that are affected--and sometimes mimicked--by low levels of vitamin D.
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Source: eOrthopod
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