Effect of Diet on Vitamin D Metabolism: Implications in Health and Disease

Dear Colleagues,

Vitamin D is a lipid-soluble pre-hormone with a classic role in maintaining bone health. Recent interest in vitamin D is mostly focused on its benefits beyond its impact on bone, as suboptimal levels of vitamin D are linked to increased incidences of chronic diseases, including inflammatory bowel diseases, multiple forms of cancer, immune health, etc. Hence, optimal vitamin D levels could be beneficial for metabolic health. With the emerging evidence on the roles of vitamin D, strategies to optimize vitamin D homeostasis are highly desirable. This Special Issue aims to solicit original research papers, review articles, and meta-analyses that focus on topics that cover dietary strategies targeted toward vitamin D metabolism and their implications for health and chronic disease prevention (e.g., obesity, cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, chronic inflammatory diseases), in both preclinical and clinical phases. These dietary strategies may include but are not limited to:

• Dietary patterns and whole foods approach.
• Specific dietary components, nutrients, or phytochemicals.
• Prebiotic, probiotic, postbiotic, and synbiotic approaches.

We hope that the information generated from this Special Issue will identify dietary strategies for the optimization of vitamin D status, which may serve as approaches to prevent and attenuate disease progression, and to elucidate the regulatory role of vitamin D in health and disease.

Dr. Grover Paul Miller
Dr. Gar Yee Koh
Dr. Carmen Reynolds
Guest Editors

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