People who naturally have more vitamin D in their blood tend to grow taller as they develop, which might mean their bodies are more focused on building muscle and bone rather than storing fat.

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Causal relationship between vitamin D and adult height: A bidirectional Mendelian randomization study

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2025 Aug 29

This study used genes to show that people born with naturally higher vitamin D levels tend to be taller as adults, meaning vitamin D helps you grow taller — which supports the idea that it boosts body growth.

High dose dietary vitamin D allocates surplus calories to muscle and growth instead of fat via modulation of myostatin and leptin signaling

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This study found that taking a lot of vitamin D helps the body use extra food to build muscles and grow taller instead of storing it as fat, which matches the idea that more vitamin D makes your body favor growth over storing energy.

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