Vitamin D plays a crucial role in keeping our bones, teeth, and muscles healthy and according to the experts, it’s possible to get enough of the vitamin through sunlight alone during the brighter months (from late March to the end of September.) Still, it’s estimated that about 1 billion people worldwide have low vitamin D levels with common symptoms of vitamin D deficiency including fatigue, muscle weakness, and bone pain.
This video will cover the topic of vitamin D deficiency including causes and how to correct vitamin D deficiency. To navigate to specific points in the video, see below:
0:16 – What is vitamin D responsible for?
1:08 – What are the causes of vitamin D deficiency?
1:36 – How to correct vitamin D deficiency
2:43 – How can you get checked?
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What Foods are High in Vitamin D? https://www.letsgetchecked.com/articles/what-foods-are-high-in-vitamin-d/
Four Vitamin Deficiencies You Should Fix Now (and How to Fix Them) https://www.letsgetchecked.com/articles/4-vitamin-deficiencies-you-should-fix-now-and-how-to-fix-them/
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hi there I’m Dr Dominic from let’s get checked and I’m here today to talk to you about vitamin D what is vitamin D what causes vitamin D deficiency and most importantly what we can do to correct vitamin D deficiency the vitamin D is a very complex uh vitamin it’s what we call a fat soluble vitamin so you first of all you need to have fat in your diet for vitamin D to be absorbed and to be um and to be made um vitamin D is is becoming more increasingly known to have a very wide set of functions it was always known to promote um calcium absorption so if you don’t have vitamin D you’re not absorbing calcium so we’ve always known that if you have a lack of vitamin D it can lead to brittle bones and um poor brittle teeth and leading to conditions like osteoporosis but it’s become increasingly known that vitamin D plays a really wide role in the body um for example in digestive functions and also in immune functions a lot of these functions are actually unknown at the moment but vitamin D is becoming kind of a new area of research and interest the three most common reasons for vitamin D deficiency um amongst us is number one a lack of sunlight and this is simply due to where you live in the world the second most common reason is if you have any extremes of weight for example if you’re very overweight or very underweight this can also cause a vitamin D deficiency and the third most common reason in that we see is people that simply don’t have enough vitamin D in their diet so how does one increase um one’s vitamin D levels or correct your vitamin D deficiency well obviously I discussed the causes of vitamin D deficiency so the number one way of increasing your vitamin D um exposure is to increase your exposure to sunlight best time of the day to do this would between the hours of 12 to two but of course you must be cautious in the hotter uh climbs that you don’t get sunburnt the second way of correcting vitamin D deficiency is of course to manage a healthy weight this is you know easier said than done we understand but as I discussed before if you’re very overweight or very underweight you you may suffer from vitamin D deficiency so a healthy weight is is advised the third easiest way of in correcting vitamin D deficiency is of course to increase the amount of food that you take that is naturally rich in vitamin D and this would include all dairy products if for example for any reason you are unable to do this for example because of a vegan diet or because you’re Dairy intolerant or lactose intolerant you may have to um go to your doctor or your local health food shop and you may have to supplement your diet with actual Vitamin D supplements if you want to know what your vitamin D levels are you can log on to our website onto let’s get checked and you can purchase what’s uh what we call our basic vitamin pack and that’s also tests you for as well as Vitamin D it tests you for B12 vitamin B12 and folate um if you of course if you have any other questions or queries you can uh go on to let’s get checked and you can talk to one of our nurses to live chat and they’ be very happy to advise you further
