What is the natural source of Vitamin D?

Sunlight is the best source of Vitamin D. Vitamin D is necessary for the body to absorb calcium. While being out in the Sun for twenty minutes each day helps your body get vitamin D, you can also get vitamin D from Eggs, Fatty fish like salmon , cereal, and milk fortified with vitamin D.

Vitamin D is important to bone health and immune system, you get it from exposure to sunlight, milk, soy drinks, margarine, salmon, shrimps and sardines.

What are the benefits we get from vitamin D?

Vitamin D helps the absorption of calcium and phosphorous to make healthy bones and teeth. It balances and regulates the calcium between the blood and bones to prevent early osteoporosis, rickets and osteomalacia.

It is a supplement that deals with the nutrients inside the bones. Most of people who have deficiency in vitamin D tend to be most often getting injured and having bone fracture. To avoid this, let’s drink enough vitamin D every day.

Aside from nourishing our bones, what are other benefits of vitamin d?

People who has insufficient amount of vitamin d have the risk in getting cancer and heart problems. Almost 70% of these patients have tested that it has low amount of vitamin d.

If the person is insufficient of vitamin D, they could be at risk of getting cancer and heart problems? I thought they would get osteoarthritis?

Hello!. i've read that vit D is a fat-soluble vitamin that is naturally present in very few foods, added to others, and available as a dietary supplement. It is also produced endogenously when ultraviolet rays from sunlight strike our skin and trigger vitamin D synthesis.

Most people know that vitamin D comes from milk. We can also get this vitamin thru sunlight. Just bathe in the sun around 6am to 10pm only if you do it too much and might also cause skin cancer.

I heard from a TV show that Vitamin D is also good for strengthening the immune system. Is it true?

Yes, it is. The main concern of vitamin D is for strengthening the bones. Calcium and vitamin D are relatively present in dairy products.

The best is the Sunlight.Other than that cereals,fish,,milk etc.It makes our bones strong.

Having enough vitamin d not only strengthens your bones but also improves muscle health, has anti-tumor (anti-cancer) properties, decreases the risk of hypertension, decreases the risk of autoimmune disorders like type 1 diabetes (children receiving vit. d from age 1 have an 80% lowered chance of getting vitamin d), improves immune sensitivity, improves psoriasis, and affects biological rhythms, mood, and behavior. It greatly helps the immune system as well, which is why many people recommend it to prevent the flu.

source on that is Real Vitamins and Minerals by Shari Lieberman.

As for dosing, ideally you would want to run 25 OH vitamin D test, such as here http://zrtlab.com/blood-spot-individual-tests/vitamin-d-25-oh-total-blood/flypage.tpl.html (you can order it yourself there), or by asking your doctor. Optimal vitamin D levels according to Dr. Mercola are above 50 (I forget the measurement).

Getting sun exposure (as much as you can without sun screen before burning is ideal) is clearly the best. If you can't get enough sun, 2000 IU of vitamin D3 (vitamin d2 is synthetic garbage, do not take D2) is a safe starting dose for adults without testing. But 4000-5000 or much higher might be necessary to improve your vitamin D levels. High doses can be problematic if you are taking too much calcium as vitamin D can see that that calcium is deposited all over your body, calcifying soft tissues and organs, and this is very dangerous. So stick to 2000 IU or get bloodwork done.

Vitamin D, which is required for disease prevention and the maintenance of healthy bones and teeth, can be obtained through food, sunshine, or supplements.

The best food sources of vitamin D are seafood and fish liver oils. The only vegetables that naturally contain vitamin D are mushrooms. Other foods are also commonly fortified with vitamin D, such as milk and many breakfast cereals.