Do You Have Vitamin D Deficiency?
Do you have vitamin D deficiency? If you have any of these symptoms, you might need to get more vitamin D.
Achy bones and muscles, especially in winter, could be a sign of vitamin D deficiency. If you’re 50 or older, your skin doesn’t make too much of the vitamin, and your kidneys also become less efficient in converting vitamin D into a usable form.
If you’re overweight or obese, because vitamin D is fat soluble, the levels of the vitamin in the blood is lower. You might need more of it to make up for the deficiency.
If you’re dark-skinned, you need ten times more sun exposure to make vitamin D than the lighter-skinned, because dark pigments act as a natural sunscreen and reduce the skin’s ability to make the vitamin by 97%.
If your head sweats a lot, you can be sure you need vitamin D. Stomach problems like celiac and Crohn’s disease, and irritable bowel syndrome, lower fat absorption, which, in turn, reduce absorption of fat-soluble vitamin D.
The best way to get your vitamin D is through exposure to sun and by consuming foods that are fortified with vitamin D. More….
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