THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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BGU Scientists Feel Synthetic
Vitamin rD' Could Aid Elderl
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BEERSHEVA — A
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research at Ben-Gurion
University on the body's
processing of Vitamin D
may mean the end of suffer-
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kidney dialysis patients
throughout the worlds.
Dr. Shraga Shany of the
university's Toor Institute
and Prof. David Galinsky,
head of the geriatrics de-
partment of Soroka Univer-
sity Hospital in Beersheva
found that many nursing
home residents suffer from
an inadequate supply of
Vitamin D3 which is the
bone-building form of Vit-
amin D manufactured by
the body. These elderly
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patients lack D3 even after healing process — indicat-
receiving a sufficient supply ing an exciting and impor-
through such foods as fish, tant break-through in this
margarine, and exposure to area of treatment.
natural sunlight.
Interestingly also, the
After treating nursing successful manufacture of
home patients over a six- this synthetic vitamin
week period with might also prove important
supplementary doses of in treating Bedouin
Vitamin D, Dr. Shany and mothers and infants in the
Prof. Galinsky found that Negev desert who, accord-
although the patients ab- ing to Dr. Shany, evidence
sorbed a significant amount unusual difficulty in pro-
of the compound, their kid- ducing this bone-restoring
neys did not manufacture compound through natural
sufficient Vitamin D3 to body processes. The Be-
promote the healing of douin's high susceptibility
bones. .Their research also to bone ailments may, fi-
clearly demonstrated that nally, and for the first time,
the body's ability to produce be greatly reduced.
the essential requisite
amount of Vitamin D3 de-
clines with age.
It became apparent
that a synthetic form of
Vitamin D3 would assist
elderly patients to over-
come their high suscepti-
bility to bone fractures
and kidney disorders as
well.
"Delicious and
Another research team at
unusual
the school headed by Dr.
Shany and Dr. R.S. Kesten-
baum together with Dr. Yit-
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for
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