Until now it has been assumed that sunlight would provide the vitamin D needed by most of the population all the year round. We now know this is not true because there are still so many people in the world have a low blood level of vitamin D. ...
In the case of vitamin D nutrition it was over 50 years before even moderate progress, in the form of an assay for vitamin D status, could be made. This long delay before nutritionists had a means of measuring what they were talking about has caused a number of problems. For example ...
Table 1. Pleiotropic effects of vitamin D. Vitamin D synthesis and metabolism Vitamin D undergoes a 3-step activation process before it interacts with the vitamin D receptor. The majority of circulating vitamin D is synthesized in the skin as a result of exposure to sunlight. The initial step...
Vitamin D has an important function in the health of bones, teeth and muscles. 3 Vitamin D is acquired primarily from diet but also from the exposure of skin to sunlight. 4 In an older population, people getting more Vitamin D would be slower walkers than those getting less Vitamin D....
Getting a good dose of Vitamin D might be good but you may need to limit the amount of time you expose yourself todirect sunlight. Heat leads to veins swelling and expanding and this could lead to blood pooling in some parts of the body. Spending too much time in a hot bath is also...
Exposure to natural sunlight increases vitamin D levels, improves mood, and regulates sleep. Grow lights allow you to regulate brightness and light intensity to prevent plant damage. Natural light depends on the weather conditions, while the grow lights are consistent regardless of the weather outsid...
Deficiencies in vitamin D directly impact children’s health and place minority and obese youth at risk for a range of health issues. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee to Review Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin D and Calcium has set both a r
In simple English, this means if you’re deficient in vitamin A you can take all the vitamin D you want and it won’t make that much of a difference because you need adequate vitamin A to make these work properly. Vitamin D absolutely needs RXR in order to get the benefits from it ...
Vitamin D is more a hormone than an essential vitamin in the sense that it does not necessarily come from exogenous sources (foods) but can be produced from skin exposure to UVB radiation from sunlight. As a hormone, it travels through the circulatory system to distant or...
Drinking warm water and getting enough sunlight may have other health benefits. Sunlight is good to get Vitamin D, which has a role in modulating the innate and adaptive immune responses. But too much exposure to sunlight may also lead to sunburn. 4. Taking a hot bath can prevent COVID-19...