07/21/2016 / By JD Heyes
Just how important is vitamin D? It’s been well-known since the 1930s, when doctors first understood the link between vitamin D deficiency and the skeletal disease known as rickets, which is the softening of bones and teeth.
Even if a person’s diet has sufficient levels of calcium, without enough vitamin D to properly control calcium and phosphate levels in the blood stream, a demineralization of the bones can take place.
Rickets symptoms include bowed legs, bone pain, dental problems, a widening of wrists and frequent bone fractures.
Here are nine of the most common symptoms of vitamin D deficiency:
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