-Vitamin D is an important vitamin to our overall health, because it builds strong and healthy bones.
-Vitamin D can be found naturally in small amounts in a selection of foods, including oily fish such as herring, sardines, tuna, and mackerel.
-Vitamin D can also be found in mushrooms that have been grown in Ultraviolet Light (UV).
-The skin’s exposure to the sun allows us to consume vitamin D naturally, which is essential for boosting good health.
-The highest levels of UV exposure only occur year-round near the equator. So unless you’re living somewhere tropical, chances are, you’re missing out on your vitamin D intake from the sun.
-Mineralization is the process in which our bones are constantly being rebuilt or remodeled. Vitamin D helps us to maintain bone mineralization by ensuring there is a plentiful supply of calcium in the bloodstream.
-When the mineralization process slows down our bodies experience a plethora of ailments such as osteomalacia, one of the most severe symptoms of vitamin D deficiency.
-Osteomalacia is the softening of your bones. Softened bones can lead to bowing during growth, especially in weight-bearing bones of the legs. In older adults it can lead to fractures.
-Hair loss is a symptom of vitamin D deficiency, which occurs when your body lacks the recommended amount of vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to alopecia, or spot baldness.
-Bleeding gums are closely related to your body’s levels of vitamin D.
-Vitamin D’s role in fighting infections is reducing inflammation, and receptors that are directly associated with periodontitis.
-Vitamin D plays a crucial role in preventing gum disease.
-Vitamin D deficiency can cause joint and muscle pain. Since vitamin D regulates the amount of calcium in the body, physical symptoms of the deficiency could occur in the knees, legs and hips.
-Vitamin D is very important to our immune system function, nervous system, muscles and skin. A vitamin D deficiency causes autoimmune diseases such as fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is characterized by pain and tender points, fatigue, sleep problems, memory problems, anxiety, depression, morning stiffness and numbness and tingling in hands, arms, feet and legs.
-Effective ways to increase vitamin D levels: Spend time in the sunlight, -Vitamin D3 supplements, Consume fatty fish and seafood, Eat more mushrooms, Include egg yolks, Eat fortified foods like cereals.
-Vegan vitamin D sources: Vitamin D2, Maitake & portobello mushrooms, Soy milk, Almond milk, Chanterelle mushrooms (raw), Orange juice, Soy yogurt, Ready-to-eat cereals fortified with Vitamin D.
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