The sunshine Vitamin
I am sure you want to find out what this vitamin is. It is Vitamin D. It is an essential vitamin and it is synthesized on the skin when one is in the sun. Note that if you bask in the sun behind a glass window your body cannot build up this protein.
Vitamin D is thought to be the most underrated vitamin. Here are a number of things I have found out after researching a bit about this great element:
1. New research has found a strong correlation between lack of vitamin D and depression. low levels of vitamin D and especially Vitamin D3 are associated to significant symptoms of depression in otherwise healthy people.
2. Vitamin D levels have something to do with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, auto-immune disease, osteoporosis and cancer. It lowers blood pressure and reduces the risk of heart and kidney disease.
3. Vitamin D helps increase cardio pulmonary exercise capacity. It helps improve muscle strength and increased the rate of protein synthesis and leads to enlarged muscle.
4. Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - characterized by abdominal pain, bloating, discomfort, diarrhea and constipation - can be improved by absorbtion of vitamin D. Research suggests that vitamin D helps regulate the immune function by decreasing the levels of inflammatory proteins in the gut hence decreasing IBS.
5.The kidney and liver play a big role in activating vitamin D so kidney or liver disease hinder the absorbtion of this vitamin.
6. Sun creams can hinder the absorption of Vitamin D by up to 95%. So don't apply the creams each and everyday. The sunscreen manufacturers won't want you to know that.
Luckily vitamin D supplements are low cost and low risk. So if you are feeling down at all check your vitamin D levels with your doctor and take to supplements - a quarter of the people in the US do not have enough Vitamin D, you might be one of them.
Make sure you go to any length to put sunshine back into your life!!
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Yes, well with the way things are done to extreme. Health authorities have scared everyone from going in the sun, so now we have a generation of troglodytes who hide from the sun and cover every inch of themselves if they do venture out.
This is the planet we are conditioned to live on, so go out and be a part of it. Get sun on your skin, but like everything, don't over do it. Maybe in places of long sunless winters you might need supplements, but for the rest, just go out and be sensible about it.
That's right but even creams SPF -sun protection factor as low as 8 still block out the sun so much. Because it is way overdone and the manufacturers will not come clean.
Yes, they want lots of well behaved paying customers, brain washed into buying their products. KI use on a few places but the rest, I don;t use any.
Thank you, never new it was of influence on the winter depressions, I did hear of special light treadments.
It does influence winter and every kind of depression. Isn't it a shame that we are so advanced and yet so sick? Infact the more modern the society the sicker and the more medicated.
Luckily in the Netherlands we don't have the hype yet of all those prescripted medications. Most Dutch are using extra vitamines and minerals. I use on a daily base Aloë Vera, Vit.C and a multi-vitamine as addition.
That then is an advanced society Loes. Advanced in the desirable manner. I am glad you are taking your health seriously.
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Thanks for sharing the necessary element for human body.
Welcome Jimparaya. With the internet it is easy to share information that one will never see in the mass media. I wish you a successful time in WA.
Thank you ENyaga.