Vitamin D has been one of the most overlooked vital vitamins in our day. For a long time conventional medical experts touted the understanding that vitamin D supplementation was hardly necessary due to the ability of the body to synthesize vitamin D from exposure to the sun. However, today more and more research is being conducted that proves that our level of exposure to the sun has decreased so much in the past 100 years due to our greatly increasing indoor lifestyles that supplementation with Vitamin D is in fact necessary in many parts of the world to prevent widespread deficiency.
My own life has been drastically transformed through introducing a Vitamin D supplement into my diet, as it is the largest single factor in why I was able to become pregnant - such was the profound positive shift in my hormones as a result of correcting my extreme deficiency. When I looked back on my history, I realized that for many years I had not had good sun exposure at all, some years being able to count on my hands the number of times I was outdoors sunbathing or sitting in the sun long enough to have had an impact.
The widespread benefits of increasing Vitamin D consumption are huge. Research is suggesting that a decrease in Vitamin D levels over the winter months are part of the rise in cases of the flu and other common winter viral infections. Vitamin D consumption has been linked to prevention of osteoporosis, skin cancer, as well as diabetes to name just a few. This is not far-fetched, as research has been showing that pretty much every cell in your body has vitamin D receptors - therefore a lack of vitamin D has widespread consequences for many systems in our body.
The Vitamin D Council is a website dedicated to providing valuable information about Vitamin D and our health. I would encourage you to read more about Vitamin D, especially if you are someone who does not spend a large portion of your time in the sun. In the past, Europeans used to consume a much larger amount of oily fish and meat and dairy products which contained higher levels of Vitamin D than we do now. This offered them a much better level of protection against developing deficiency throughout the year.
One of the ways you can prevent Vitamin D deficiency is to consume healthy amounts of meat and dairy products and take a good quality cod liver oil supplement daily. I do not recommend eating fish regularly due to the many hidden toxicity dangers linked with most species of fish. (The most toxic commonly consumed fish is tuna and the least is wild Alaskan salmon)
If you suspect that you might be deficient in Vitamin D, due to lack of good exposure to the sun during Summer as well as not eating enough meat and dairy products, I would suggest taking a higher dose Vitamin D supplement for a period of time to correct the deficiency.
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Vitamin D, Sunshine, and Your Health
* If you totally avoid the sun, recent research indicates you need about 4,000 units of vitamin D a day! Which means you can't get enough vitamin D from milk (unless you drink 40 glasses a day) or from a multivitamin (unless you take about 10 tablets a day), neither of which is recommended.
* Most of us make about 20,000 units of vitamin D after about 20 minutes of summer sun. This is about 100 times more vitamin D than the government says you need every day.
* The only way to be sure you have adequate levels of vitamin D in your blood is to regularly go into the sun, use a sun bed (avoiding sunburn), or have your physician administer a 25‑hydroxyvitamin D test. Optimal levels are around 50 ng/mL (125 nM/L).
* If you don't get vitamin D the way Mother Nature intended, from sunshine, you need to take supplemental vitamin D3 cholecalciferol. Since most of us get a lot more vitamin D from sunshine than we realize, most of us need about 2,000 units a day extra.
http://www.vitamindcouncil.com/
My own life has been drastically transformed through introducing a Vitamin D supplement into my diet, as it is the largest single factor in why I was able to become pregnant - such was the profound positive shift in my hormones as a result of correcting my extreme deficiency. When I looked back on my history, I realized that for many years I had not had good sun exposure at all, some years being able to count on my hands the number of times I was outdoors sunbathing or sitting in the sun long enough to have had an impact.
The widespread benefits of increasing Vitamin D consumption are huge. Research is suggesting that a decrease in Vitamin D levels over the winter months are part of the rise in cases of the flu and other common winter viral infections. Vitamin D consumption has been linked to prevention of osteoporosis, skin cancer, as well as diabetes to name just a few. This is not far-fetched, as research has been showing that pretty much every cell in your body has vitamin D receptors - therefore a lack of vitamin D has widespread consequences for many systems in our body.
The Vitamin D Council is a website dedicated to providing valuable information about Vitamin D and our health. I would encourage you to read more about Vitamin D, especially if you are someone who does not spend a large portion of your time in the sun. In the past, Europeans used to consume a much larger amount of oily fish and meat and dairy products which contained higher levels of Vitamin D than we do now. This offered them a much better level of protection against developing deficiency throughout the year.
One of the ways you can prevent Vitamin D deficiency is to consume healthy amounts of meat and dairy products and take a good quality cod liver oil supplement daily. I do not recommend eating fish regularly due to the many hidden toxicity dangers linked with most species of fish. (The most toxic commonly consumed fish is tuna and the least is wild Alaskan salmon)
If you suspect that you might be deficient in Vitamin D, due to lack of good exposure to the sun during Summer as well as not eating enough meat and dairy products, I would suggest taking a higher dose Vitamin D supplement for a period of time to correct the deficiency.
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Vitamin D, Sunshine, and Your Health
* If you totally avoid the sun, recent research indicates you need about 4,000 units of vitamin D a day! Which means you can't get enough vitamin D from milk (unless you drink 40 glasses a day) or from a multivitamin (unless you take about 10 tablets a day), neither of which is recommended.
* Most of us make about 20,000 units of vitamin D after about 20 minutes of summer sun. This is about 100 times more vitamin D than the government says you need every day.
* The only way to be sure you have adequate levels of vitamin D in your blood is to regularly go into the sun, use a sun bed (avoiding sunburn), or have your physician administer a 25‑hydroxyvitamin D test. Optimal levels are around 50 ng/mL (125 nM/L).
* If you don't get vitamin D the way Mother Nature intended, from sunshine, you need to take supplemental vitamin D3 cholecalciferol. Since most of us get a lot more vitamin D from sunshine than we realize, most of us need about 2,000 units a day extra.
http://www.vitamindcouncil.com/
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