In this video, I will show you the benefits of vitamin D and best sources to get some vitamin D.

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Vitamin D

A human body produces vitamin D as a response to sun exposure.

A person can also boost their vitamin D intake through certain foods or supplements.

Vitamin D is essential for several reasons, including maintaining healthy bones and teeth.

It may also protect against a range of diseases and conditions, such as type 1 diabetes.

Despite its name, vitamin D is not a vitamin, but a prohormone, or precursor of a hormone.

Vitamins are nutrients that the body cannot create, and so a person must consume them in the diet.
However, the body can produce vitamin D.

Vitamin D has multiple roles in the body.

Benefit 1: Healthy Bones

Vitamin D plays a significant role in the regulation of calcium and maintenance of phosphorus levels in
the blood.

These factors are vital for maintaining healthy bones.

People need vitamin D to allow the intestines to stimulate and absorb calcium and reclaim calcium that
the kidneys would otherwise excrete.

Vitamin D deficiency in children can cause rickets, which leads to a severely bowlegged appearance due
to the softening of the bones.

Similarly, in adults, vitamin D deficiency manifests as osteomalacia, or softening of the bones.

Osteomalacia results in poor bone density and muscular weakness.

A vitamin D deficiency can also present as osteoporosis, for which over 53 million people in the United
States either seek treatment or face an increased risk.

Benefit 2: Reduced risk of flu

A 2018 review of existing research suggested that studies had found that vitamin D had a protective
effect against the influenza virus.

Increase your level of vitamin D if you’re deficient, and you may find that you get fewer infections such
as colds and flu than usual.

Benefit 3: Healthy infants

Vitamin D deficiency has links to high blood pressure in children. One 2018 study found a possible
connection between low vitamin D levels and stiffness in the arterial walls of children.

The American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology suggest that evidence points to a connection
between low vitamin D exposure and an increased risk of allergic sensitization.

An example of this is children who live closer to the equator and have lower rates of admission to
hospital for allergies plus fewer prescriptions of epinephrine autoinjectors. They are also less likely to
have a peanut allergy.
The American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology also highlight an Australian study of egg
intake.

Eggs are a common early source of vitamin D.

The children who started eating eggs after 6 months were more likely to develop food allergies than
children who started between 4–6 months of age.

Furthermore, vitamin D may enhance the anti-inflammatory effects of glucocorticoids.

This benefit makes it potentially useful as a supportive therapy for people with steroid resistant asthma.

Benefit 4: Healthy pregnancy

A 2019 review suggests that pregnant women who are deficient in vitamin D may have a greater risk of
developing preeclampsia and giving birth preterm.

Doctors also associate poor vitamin D status with gestational diabetes and bacterial vaginosis in
pregnant women.

It is also important to note that in a 2013 study, researchers associated high vitamin D levels during
pregnancy with an increased risk of food allergy in the child during the first 2 years of life.

Although the body can create vitamin D, a deficiency can occur for many reasons.

Some of the reasons for vitamin D deficiency are:

Skin type such as darker skin, reduce the body’s ability to absorb the ultraviolet radiation rays from the
sun.
Using sunscreens with a sun protection factor of 30 can reduce the body’s ability to synthesize the
vitamin by 95% or more.

Symptoms of vitamin D deficiency may include: regular sickness or infection, fatigue, bone and back
pain, low mood, impaired wound healing, hair loss and muscle pain.

Getting sufficient sunlight is the best way to help the body produce enough vitamin D.

Plentiful food sources of vitamin D include: fatty fish, such as salmon, mackerel, and tuna, egg yolks,
cheese, beef liver, mushrooms, fortified milk, fortified cereals and juices.

You can also take vitamin D supplements that may fill the gap and help you in the long run.

But be cautious in dosage. Anything more than 4000 international units must be reviewed with a
physician.

Sensible sun exposure on bare skin for 5–10 minutes, 2–3 times per week, allows most people to
produce sufficient vitamin D.

However, vitamin D breaks down quite quickly, meaning that stores can run low, especially in winter.

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