WHY IS VITAMIN D SO IMPORTANT???

Submitted by support on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 03:21

WHY IS VITAMIN D SO IMPORTANT???

Most information about vitamin D has been found in the last 10 years:

               85% of people in North America are deficient.

               600% variability in absorption from one person to another (for more information, click here)

 

Research shows:

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with the following groups:

  • - overweight people: because vitamin D is oil soluble and hidden in their fat.
  • - Elderly: as you age, your skin looses its ability to generate vitamin D
  • - Dark skinned people: higher levels of melanin which blocks UVB radiation

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with the following health issues:

  • - blood pressure,
  • - cardiovascular problems,
  • - kidney disease,
  1. - 150 patients showing chronic musculoskeletal pain, a whopping 93 percent were vitamin D deficient. (in one study; perhaps due to the fact Vitamin D is involved in Calcium uptake
  2. - higher risk of certain cancers, including breast and prostate:
  3. - The Lancet medical journal reported in 1989 that the most active form of vitamin D calcitriol, significantly slowed the growth of breast cancer in animals. Calcitriol stops the growth of breast cancer by regulating cell cycles. It forces apoptosis (cell death); resists signals from substances that cause cancer cells to grow, inhibits invasion into normal tissue; and prevents metastasis. Vitamin D also prevents the formation of excessive blood vessel growth around the cancerous tumor, a process called anti-angiogenesis.
  4. - obesity – not understood but perhaps because Vitamin D is oil soluble and is stored in fat cells and then blocked by other toxins

  5. - "Vitamin D deficiency is associated with obesity, but it is not clear if inadequate vitamin D causes obesity or the other way around," Shalamar Sibley, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota

Why do we need Vitamin D:

  • - every cell in the body has vitamin D receptors
  • - regulates about 10% of your genetic code
  • - powerful antioxidant
  • - powerful anti-carcinogen, & boosts anti-tumor activity
  • - combats depression, prostate cancer, breast cancer
  • - reduces high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease
  • - enables phyagocytosis (involved in the acquisition of nutrients for some cells, the immune system (to remove pathogens, bacteria, cell debris, small mineral particles)
  • - aids in the treatment of obesity and diabetes
  • - prevents multiple sclerosis

 Where do we get Vitamin D:

  1. - best source is from UVB rays in the sun – when the skin gets minimally pink
  • o ski, snowboard, etc in the winter
  • o don’t use carcinogenic sun screens in the summer
  1. - safe UVB tanning beds
  2. - foods: eggs, liver and fatty fish
  3. - spray into your mouth and absorbed by sublingual capillaries

 Resources:

 http://www1.umn.edu/news/features/2009/UR_CONTENT_165066.html