Vitamin D and CBD both benefit sports and are not considered to be doping – Sept 2019

Lots of Athletes Say CBD Is a Better Painkiller. Is It?

• “In 2017, the World Anti-Doping Agency removed CBD from its list of banned substances. That same year, former National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern said the league should change its policies to allow players to use medical marijuana. And this year, the National Football League Players’ Association partnered with the NFL to study marijuana and CBD as alternatives to other pain therapies, namely opioids.”
  •  THE WORLD ANTI-DOPING CODE INTERNATIONAL STANDARD - 2018 CBD, Vitamin D are not listed
• “Enthusiasts like former New York Giants receiver Tiki Barber, former Boston Celtic Paul Pierce, and recently retired New England Patriots star Rob Gronkowski all have their own CBD companies that promote the substance as a powerful healing tool that can manage pain, and in Pierce’s case, help with crippling anxiety.”
• “This month, the NIH announced nine new research grants devoted to investigating CBD’s potential as an anti-inflammatory and pain relief therapy.”

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• Olympic Committee consensus on Vitamin D, Omega-3, Zinc, etc– May 2018
• Sports benefits from up to 50 ng of Vitamin – meta-analysis - Nov 2012
• Vitamin D being used by sports teams to avoid injuries and improve performance – WSJ Jan 2016
• Collegiate Swimmers getting 4000 IU of vitamin D had fewer injuries – March 2013
• NHL discovers Vitamin D – their ideal is 40-120 ng – 2016
• Recent increase in Vitamin D levels in Elite Irish Athletes – Aug 2016

Overview Sports and vitamin D has the following summary

Athletes are helped by vitamin D by:

1. Faster reaction time
2. Far fewer colds/flus during the winter
3. Less sore/tired after a workout
4. Fewer micro-cracks and broken bones
5. Bones which do break heal much more quickly
6. Increased VO2 and exercise endurance Feb 2011
7. Indoor athletes especially need vitamin D
8. Professional indoor athletes are starting to take vitamin D and/or use UV beds
9. Olympic athletes have used UV/vitamin D since the 1930's
10. The biggest gain from the use of vitamin D is by those who exercise less than 2 hours per day.
11. Reduced muscle fatigue with 10,000 IU vitamin D daily
12. Muscle strength improved when vitamin D added: 3 Meta-analysis
13. Reduced Concussions
    See also: Sports and Vitamin D category 231 items

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• Vitamin D Life has 115 CBD items as of Sept 2019
• History of Vitamin D from 500 million years ago to orthopaedic practice today – 2019
  • Vitamin D: part I; from plankton and calcified skeletons (500 million years ago) to rickets - Sept 2018
  • Vitamin D Receptors in virually every cell in the body - and probably much of the bionome as well
• There are CBD receptors many places in the body Wikipedia