Did you know 70% or more of Americans are vitamin D deficient? Vitamin D, known as the sunshine vitamin, is essential for promoting calcium absorption to keep teeth and bones strong. It also helps support the immune system, may prevent children from getting rickets, and protect adults against osteoporosis.
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin and can be found in very few foods. The best source comes from the flesh of oily or fatty fish such as tuna, salmon, and mackerel. Other foods that contain the important vitamin include fortified milk, certain brands of yogurt and juice, and some ready-to-eat breakfast cereals. Small amounts can be found in egg yolks, beef liver, and cheese. Vitamin D is also made by the body when the skin is exposed to ultraviolet rays from sunlight.
If you suspect your Vitamin D deficient have your doctor test your levels! My doctor tested mine and I was so low he placed me on 50000 mg for 3 weeks. YIKES! That seemed like a HUGE amount to take, but he said I needed to build up my reserve quickly.
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If you are alive (so that includes anyone reading this) you will have heard the Vitamin D Hype. Even the Medical Profession is extracting blood (wretched vampires) to check your levels of this essential hormone.
We went through years of being told that sun exposure was killing us…. skin cancers, melanomas etc, hence the dire need to stay out of the sun and (in Australia) to “Slip, Slop, Slap…” and yet it is well known that the suns action on the skin, is the most natural way to build up your bodies supply of natural vitamin D. Notice the word NATURAL.
Shane Ellison, known as The People’s Chemist, has a well written ANTI (artificial) VITAMIN D essay I felt would be appropriate to post here for your edification.
just-me-in-t-health.blogspot.com/2010/08/vitamin-d-scam.html
Vitamin deficiency is not a scam. I know how I felt when I was severely LOW! I don’t think my body was trying to SCAM me. However, I do agree there has been a significant amount of hype over Vitamin D supplements and getting tested. As we all know tests cost money and they are making a mint off them, but just like any other preventive care method you pay for it in the long run if you ignore your body. I guess skin cancer, melanomas, and premature aging is all a scam too? We all should just bask in the sun, take our cancer risks, and look like dried out raisins to soak up the natural vitamin D. Thanks, but no thanks!