So what's the deal with Vitamin 'D'?

Vitamin D has, in recent years, become a trendy subject!
​WHAT'S THE DEAL? We need it for resistance to chronic diseases, such as, cardiovascular disease and cancer, healing fractures (bone remodelling), resistance to colon cancer, multiple sclerosis, high blood pressure and glucose intolerance.

• SOURCES of VIT D: Tuna, Salmon, Mackeral, Beef, Liver, Cheese, Egg Yolks and Milk.
• SUN exposure converts dehydrocholesterol to pre-vitamin D3, then D3, then liver calcidiol and kidney calcidiol. However, if you wash the oil off your skin before or soon after, you will reduce this process.
• Babies require a vitamin D supplement as do IBD sufferers and people who have had by-pass surgery.
• Vitamin D promotes Calcium absorption in the gut and bone health. Some drugs interfere with vitamin D: cortisone, dilantin and the cholesterol lowering drug cholestyramine.
• Sunscreen is a risk because of the constituents!
• Vitamin D addresses key immune defects in auto-immunity (Journal of Ageing Res. 2012 Article 806198.

​There is a lot more to share on this subject to help you achieve better health and wellbeing.  Give me a call on 07 5484 5050 and you can start today on a healthier path.....Doctor Pat.  www.naturopathicphysician.com.au  

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