Vitamin D and health - A real story....

Most people don't know the real story of "vitamin D and health." Vitamin D is produced by our skin in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation from natural sunlight. The healing rays of natural sunlight that generate vitamin D in our skin cannot penetrate glass, So you don't generate vitamin D when sitting in your car or home.  It is nearly impossible to get adequate amounts of vitamin D from your diet. 

Here I would like to bring some important facts about Vitamin - D.

• Sunlight exposure is the only reliable way to generate vitamin D in our own bodies. A person would have to drink ten tall glasses of vitamin D fortified milk each day just to get minimum levels of vitamin D into their diet. 

• The further you live from the equator, the longer exposure you need to the sun in order to generate vitamin D. Canada, the UK, and most U.S. States are far from the equator. 

• People with dark skin pigmentation may need 20 - 30 times as much exposure to sunlight as fair-skinned people to generate the same amount of vitamin D. That's why prostate cancer is an epidemic among many people- it's a simple, but widespread, sunlight deficiency. 

• Sufficient levels of vitamin D are crucial for calcium absorption in our intestines. Without sufficient vitamin D, your body cannot absorb calcium, rendering calcium supplements useless. 

• Chronic vitamin D deficiency cannot be reversed overnight; it takes months of vitamin D supplementation and sunlight exposure to rebuild the body's bones and nervous system.

• Even weak sunscreens (SPF=8) block your body's ability to generate vitamin D by 95%. This is how sunscreen products actually cause disease by creating a critical vitamin deficiency in the body. 

• It is impossible to generate too much vitamin D in our body from sunlight exposure. Our body will self-regulate and only generate what it needs. 

• If it hurts to press firmly on our sternum(chest/breast bone), we may be suffering from chronic vitamin D deficiency right now. 

• Vitamin D is "activated" in our body by our kidneys and liver before it can be used. 

• Having kidney disease or liver damage can greatly impair our body's ability to activate circulating vitamin D. 

• The sunscreen industry doesn't want us to know that our body actually needs sunlight exposure because that realization would mean lower sales of sunscreen products.

• Even though vitamin D is one of the most powerful healing chemicals in our body, yet our body makes it absolutely free. No prescription is required.

Other powerful antioxidants with this ability include super fruits like Pomegranates (Wonderful juice), Acai, Blueberries, etc.

Diseases and conditions cause by vitamin D deficiency: 

1. Osteoporosis is commonly caused by a lack of vitamin D, which greatly impairs calcium absorption.  Sufficient vitamin D prevents prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, depression, colon cancer, and schizophrenia. 
2. Rickets is the name of a bone-wasting disease caused by vitamin D deficiency. 
3. Vitamin D deficiency may exacerbate type- 2 diabetes and impair insulin production in the pancreas.
4. Obesity impairs vitamin D utilization in the body, meaning obese people need twice as much vitamin D. 
5. Vitamin D is used around the world to treat Psoriasis (a chronic skin disease). 
6. Vitamin D deficiency can cause schizophrenia. Seasonal Affective Disorder is caused by a melatonin imbalance initiated by lack of exposure to sunlight. 
7. Chronic vitamin D deficiency is often misdiagnosed as "fibromyalgia" because its symptoms are so similar to Muscle weakness, aches, and pains.
8. The risk of developing serious diseases like diabetes and cancer is reduced 50% - 80% through simple, sensible exposure to natural sunlight 2-3 times each week. 
9. Infants who receive vitamin D supplementation (2000 units daily) have an 80% reduced risk of developing type - 1 diabetes over the next twenty years.  

Shocking Vitamin D deficiency statistics: 

In the opinion of experts, 32% of doctors and med school students are vitamin D deficient. 40% of the U.S. population is vitamin D deficient. 42% of African & American women of childbearing age are deficient in vitamin D. 48% of young girls (9-11 years old) are vitamin D deficient. Up to 60% of all hospital patients are vitamin D deficient.76% of pregnant mothers are severely vitamin D deficient, causing widespread vitamin D deficiencies in their unborn children, which predisposes them to type - 1 diabetes, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and schizophrenia later in life. 81% of the children born to these mothers were deficient. Up to 80% of nursing home patients are vitamin D deficient Up to 90% of Indians are vitamin D deficient!! 

Solution: Take direct sunlight early morning for 20-30 minutes. 

Note: This article is based on the opinion of the expert and scientist. Real data (Statistics) and percentages may vary. The author cannot take the guarantee of the data reported in the form of percentage exactly. 

Stay healthy, stay safe.