Vitamin D deficiency is a widespread occurrence with significant implications for our health.

Vitamin D deficiency is the rule, rather than the exception.

Vitamin D deficiency allows a great number of abnormal health phenomena to occur including:

• Autoimmune/inflammatory diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis)
• Greater inflammation, as is reflected in higher C-reactive protein levels, tumor necrosis factor, and others
• Depression and seasonal affective disorder
• Higher blood sugar and resistance to insulin (conditions that lead to diabetes)
• Greater risk for osteoporosis and fractures
• Injury to pancreatic beta cells that produce insulin
• Weight gain
• Periodontal disease
• Higher risk for cancer, especially breast, prostate, colon, ovarian, and melanoma
• Higher risk for heart attack, heart failure, and cardiovascular mortality
• Preeclampsia and eclampsia during pregnancy

The association between lower levels of vitamin D and disease is powerful for many of these conditions.

A vitamin D deficiency may result in as much as a 50% increased potential for diabetes.

All the above phenomena are improved or reversed with the restoration of vitamin D to healthy levels, including the assistance of weight loss.

Achieving an ideal level of vitamin D is crucial— not too low, but also not too high. The ideal level of vitamin D, measured as 25-hydroxy continues to be open to debate. Applying epidemiological observations to the above diseases, suggest that 60 to 70 ng/ ml is the ideal range.

Too much vitamin D is also not a good idea. Besides provoking abnormal calcium deposition in tissues, vitamin D levels that exceed 100 mg/ dl are associated with increased potential for the abnormal heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation.

The majority of people require vitamin D doses of 4,000 to 8,000 international units (IU) taken in an oil-based gel cap form to achieve the target value of 60 to 70ng/ ml.

Vitamin D should be taken as D3, which is the form that naturally occurs in the human body and is widely available as a nutritional supplement. - TWEET THIS

You do not want the form found in mushrooms (D2 or ergocalciferol), which is also the form in prescription vitamin D.

Ideally, your vitamin D level should be reassessed every 6 to 12 months to maintain the desired levels, as your needs could change over time.

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Dr. Tony Rump

PS: The vitamin D is fat soluble and without a gallbladder, it’s a challenge to absorb.

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