Would one expect a correlation between vitamin D and polyps? Much has been written about the beneficial effects of the supplement lately, with the difference that in some individuals, depending on their genetic predisposition, it may prove harmful.
More specifically, a large study of more than 2,000 people recently published in a prestigious American scientific journal (Barry, Peacock et al. 2017) closely correlated the effect of vitamin D supplementation with genes. It has been shown that vitamin D supplementation can reduce or, even more often, increase the risk of intestinal polyposis, and this effect depends on certain genes.
This is important not only because bowel polyps are closely related to colon cancer, one of the most common cancers in our country, but also because it once again shows that supplements do not have the same effect on all of us and in fact quite often, depending on our genes, they can also have negative consequences. In particular, according to the above study, vitamin D supplementation can reduce the risk of colon polyps by 64%, but only in people who carry the AA genotype of the vitamin D receptor gene.
In other people, who are and the majority, ie almost ¾ of the general population, vitamin D supplementation increases the risk of polyps by 41%.
Once again we can conclude that the use of supplements is necessary only after the consent of the appropriate health professionals, who know the nutritional issues in depth and are informed about developments.
Source: https://thehealthlab.gr/ygeia
