New research followed nearly 800 participants for more than a decade and a half, examining whether vitamin D levels measured in their 30s were linked to changes in the brain in later life. Individuals with higher circulating levels of vitamin D had lower accumulations of tau – a protein that forms damaging tangles in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease – when scanned roughly 16 years later.

India’s doctors are being urged to rethink recovery as more than just symptom control, following the release of the country’s first formal guidelines on the clinical use of micronutrients in patient care.