Why Vitamin D is Important?
Why Vitamin D is Important?
Why you need Vitamin D?
Your body needs vitamin D to absorb calcium and to promote bone growth. Deficiency has been to prostate cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, depression, heart disease, bone issues and other diseases.
Vitamin D helps protect you from…
Philip Day, the founder of “The Campaign for Truth in Medicine” and a well known publisher, author and journalist, has pointed out the major role of Vitamin D for an individuals health and well being.
He stressed that individuals and the health care industry can’t deny the biological function of Vitamin D to achieve and maintain an optimum state of health.
Recent researchers have shown that Vitamin D can also help fight:
- different types of cancer
- heart disease
- stroke
- hypertension
- autoimmune disease
- diabetes
- depression
- chronic pain
- osteoarthritis
- osteoporosis
- muscle weakness
- muscle wasting
- birth defects
- periodontal disease
- and many other chronic diseases
The Vitamin D Solution author, Dr. Michael Holick, further expanded on it’s many health benefits. He said that Vitamin D is very crucial from birth until death, stating it is essential during:
- Pregnancy – it is critically important for the developing foetus. Preeclampsia which is a serious complication in pregnancy is related to a deficiency. It is also essential for muscle function which is needed for birthing action. Women with sufficient levels of Vitamin D show 400% reduced risk to require a C-section
- Critically important for children – Vitamin D helps protect young children against wheezing disorders and asthma. Deficiency may result in:
- Type 1 Diabetes
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Chrons Diseases
- Colorectal Cancer
- Prostate Cancer
- Breast Cancer
No doubt, Vitamin D helps prevent and treat chronic diseases such as cancer, rickets and other debilitating illnesses. It also helps fight infections such as colds and flu. Good levels also strengthens your immune system to fight and destroy harmful organisms including viruses and bacteria.
Without it your body simply cannot achieve its optimum performance.
How to get Vitamin D
The best source of Vitamin D is the sun. To receive optimum levels expose your skin to the sun for 10-20 minutes in the middle of the day. It then takes your body 36 hours for Vitamin D to penetrate the skin, so make sure when you are having a shower afterwards you are only using soap on your underarms and crotch, not the area exposed to the sun. Following these short bursts of exposure and limiting the amount of soap on your skin you’ll be able to receive the optimal amount of Vitamin D.
