Every year at least one in five have their blood vitamin D level measured – without any medical benefit. The cost of basic insurance is 90 million francs.
Published: January 9th, 2021, 11:00 PM—
–In winter, solar radiation is too low in our latitudes, which is why our body falls back on the vitamin D stores from autumn.
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Is there a food crisis in Switzerland? This is the conclusion one could come to given the rapidly growing number of laboratory tests for micronutrients. Doctors use it to investigate a possible lack of vitamins and trace elements. From 2012 to 2018, the proportion of the population who had such tests carried out increased from 25 to 35 percent. However, there is no medical reason for this strong increase.
The trend with vitamin D is particularly striking. Despite dubious evidence, it has been said for years that the sun vitamin protects against numerous ailments from cancer, bone fractures and cardiovascular diseases to infections – most recently even against the coronavirus, which the vitamin D Demand also increased rapidly.
