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Is It Possible to Achieve Optimal Vitamin D levels From Food?
Vitamin D is one of the essential nutrients required by the body and has many health benefits. But, unfortunately, most adults fall short of it.
So, what makes Vitamin D tick? Studies have linked this star nutrient to tons of health benefits. Several types of research suggest that Vitamin D may play vital roles in bone health, reduce one’s risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, autoimmune diseases, and more. In this article, we discussed how a deficiency in vitamin D is linked to an increased risk of getting a COVID-19 infection.
Vitamin D is unique because it is a vitamin, and it is also a hormone that your body can synthesize from the sun.
Unfortunately, despite getting vitamin D from the sun or food, approximately 40% — 75% of people suffer from a deficiency.
Why is this so?
Well, the truth is that there isn’t much vitamin D in our food sources. And in some regions of the world, the sun may not be reliable.
Many factors influence the ability of your skin to produce vitamin D, such as time of the day, season, air pollution, latitude, use of sunscreen, cloud cover, age and color, and parts of the body exposed.
