Submitted by Kofi Glover on Thursday 16th April 2020
Published on Monday 22nd June 2020
Current status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 22nd December 2020
Signatures: 442
Fund Vitamin D tests and free/subsidised supplements for BAME communities
Make the testing of Vitamin D levels readily and freely available from GP Surgeries, Pharmacies as well as through home testing kits. Vitamin D therapies should be freely provided to bring people to optimum levels. Supplements should then be available for free/subsidized to maintain optimum levels.
Modern lifestyles and dark skin impedes the absorption of Vitamin D from sunlight which can lead to low levels.
Vitamin D controls the on/off switch for more than a thousand genes and is also a building block for hormones. It influences our immune system, and is thought to help inflammatory pathways run properly.
Deficiency has been linked to obesity, high blood pressure, psoriasis, osteoporosis, chronic fatigue, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes.
Action could save lives and help protect the NHS.
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