Vitamin D Potency of Human Breast Milk

Harris, Robert S.; Bunker, John W. M.

doi:10.2105/ajph.29.7.744

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“…Polskin et al demonstrated16 that when mothers were given large doses of fish liver oil the vitamin D content of milk increased. 15 Hollis recently found3' that increased vitamin D intake resulted in large increases of vitamin D in milk. A shorter regimen of oral vitamin D supplementation (60 pg vitamin D2 per day for two weeks) raised the level of vitamin D2 in the milk of a lactating woman 40 times.…”

Section: Vitamin Dmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The RDA for vitamin D in infants and children is 10 p,g cholecalciferol per day (400 IU). Since the reported levels of vitamin D in human milk (average 0.5 pg/L, [15][16][17][18][19][20] Table I) are well below this value, human milk generally has been considered to be a relatively poor source of antirachitic sterols. Nonetheless, the majority of breast-fed infants do not develop rickets.…”

Section: Vitamin Dmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fat-Soluble Vitamins in Human Milk

Lammi‐Keefe

Jensen

2009

Nutrition Reviews

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Section: Vitamin Dmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Vitamin Dmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fat-Soluble Vitamins in Human Milk

Lammi‐Keefe

Jensen

2009

Nutrition Reviews

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“…Nutritional studies have long shown interrelationships between vitamin D and LC-PUFAs ( 74 – 76 ). For example, the vitamin D synthesized through skin exposure to UV-B (vitamin D3) has positive effects on lipid profiles that cannot be replicated with dietary vitamin D2 supplementation ( 77 ).…”

Section: Biological Consequences Of Low Uvmentioning

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Environmental selection during the last ice age on the mother-to-infant transmission of vitamin D and fatty acids through breast milk

Hlusko

Carlson

Chaplin

et al. 2018

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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SignificanceThe frequency of the human-specific EDAR V370A isoform is highly elevated in North and East Asian populations. The gene is known to have several pleiotropic effects, among which are sweat gland density and ductal branching in the mammary gland. The former has led some geneticists to argue that the near-fixation of this allele was caused by selection for modulation of thermoregulatory sweating. We provide an alternative hypothesis, that selection instead acted on the allele’s effect of increasing ductal branching in the mammary gland, thereby amplifying the transfer of critical nutrients to infants via mother’s milk. This is likely to have occurred during the Last Glacial Maximum when a human population was genetically isolated in the high-latitude environment of the Beringia.

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“…Early attempts to quantify the antirachitic potential of human milk were crude and yielded little information. [145][146][147] For a time, it was believed that vitamin D sulfate was responsible for the antirachitic activity in human milk 148,149 ; however, this was shown not to be the case. 150 In the 1980s, antirachitic activity of human milk from mothers receiving 400 IU of vitamin D/day was defined with sensitive assay technology to be 20-70 IU/L.…”

Section: Vitamin D Content Of Human Milk and Factors Affecting Contentmentioning

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Does Vitamin D Make the World Go ‘Round’?

Wagner

Taylor

Hollis

2008

Breastfeeding Medicine

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Vitamin D has emerged from obscurity, and its effects on various organ systems throughout the body down to the cellular level are being discovered. What was once thought to be a simple hormone affecting only bone and calcium metabolism has shifted. We no longer see vitamin D as a "vitamin" important only in childhood, but as a complex hormone that is involved not only in calcium homeostasis but also in the integrity of the innate immune system. Vitamin D deficiency is linked to inflammatory and long-latency diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, tuberculosis, diabetes, and various cancers, to name a few. In this review, we trace how we came to view vitamin D and how that view led to one of the largest epidemics of nutrient deficiency beginning in the late 20(th) century. We then discuss the needs of vitamin D in the context of the breastfeeding mother and her infant and child, why breastfed infants are particularly at risk, and what to do about it.

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Vitamin D Potency of Human Breast Milk

Cited by 28 publications

References 4 publications

Fat-Soluble Vitamins in Human Milk

Fat-Soluble Vitamins in Human Milk

Environmental selection during the last ice age on the mother-to-infant transmission of vitamin D and fatty acids through breast milk

Does Vitamin D Make the World Go ‘Round’?

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