Effects of curcumin supplementation on vitamin D levels in women with premenstrual syndrome and dysmenorrhea: a randomized controlled study.

What Was Tested

Researchers studied Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in this randomized controlled trial publication.

Vitamin D has an established role in female reproduction.

There is also evidence for an association between vitamin D levels and menstrual problems such as premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and dysmenorrhea.

Who Took Part

PubMed indexes the participants as young adults, women only.

How the Study Was Run

In design terms this was a randomized and placebo-controlled study.

Because people in this Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc study were split into groups at random, differences between the groups are less likely to reflect who happened to join each one.

The comparison arm used a placebo, so changes seen with Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc could be set against what happens without it.

Serum vitamin D levels, renal function, and liver enzymes were also measured before and after intervention.

What Was Measured

There is also evidence for an association between vitamin D levels and menstrual problems such as premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and dysmenorrhea.

This study evaluated the effects of curcumin on vitamin D levels in young women with PMS and dysmenorrhea.

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Aspartate Aminotransferases, Bilirubin, Curcumin, Dietary Supplements, Dysmenorrhea, Premenstrual Syndrome and Vitamin D.

Author keywords: Menstruation, Triglycerides and Turmeric.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized and placebo-controlled study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.

Its findings take up roughly 5 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2022 (BMC complementary medicine and therapies), a journal based in England.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.