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Graphical abstract. Credit: Biomolecules and Biomedicine (2025). DOI: 10.17305/bb.2025.12331 Researchers report in a study, published in Biomolecules and Biomedicine, that lower blood levels of vitamin D are consistently linked with higher rates of depression in adults—especially when 25-hydroxy-vitamin D [25(OH)D] falls at or below 30 nmol/L. The authors emphasize that this does not prove cause:
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