Tips To Avoid Serious Mistakes While Taking Vitamin D Supplements

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Tips To Avoid Serious Mistakes While Taking
Vitamin D Supplements
Vitamin D is necessary for bone development,
functioning of the immune system and alleviation
of inflammation. However, a lack of vitamin D
over a prolonged period of time leads to rickets,
a weakened immune system, an increased risk of
cancer, poor hair growth, osteoporosis and
osteomalacia.

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Types of Vitamin D

• Vitamin D is available in two forms which cannot
  be interchanged. You would be surprised to know,
  but taking the wrong one could do more harm than
  good.
• Vitamin D2 is the synthetic form of Vitamin D
  which is made by irradiating plant and fungus
  matter. Vitamin D3 on the other hand is produced
  by your body in response to sun exposure.

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Vitamin D2 Or Vitamin D3 Which One Is Better?
According to a recent meta-analysis, the
mortality rates of people who supplemented with
Vitamin D3 showed significantly better results as
compared to the people who supplemented their
diets with Vitamin D2. These analyses concluded
that The participants who used Vitamin D3
showed six percent relative mortality risk
reduction The participants who used Vitamin D2
showed two percent relative increase in mortality
risk
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How Vitamin D2 is Different from Vitamin D3

• Vitamin D2 and Vitamin D3 were considered
  equivalent based on the decades old study on
  prevention of rickets in children. However, today
  a lot more has been researched about Vitamin D.
  In fact, featured studies strongly recommend
  Vitamin D3 supplements, as the best source of
  Vitamin D, when taken orally. This is mainly
  because this is the same type of Vitamin D that
  is created by your body upon sun exposure.
• Vitamin D supplements come in two main forms
• Vitamin D2 (Ergocalciferol)
• Vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol)

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The Best Source of Vitamin D
Sunlight undoubtedly makes the best source of
Vitamin D. Health care practitioners all over the
globe strongly recommend safe sun exposure to
meet the bodys Vitamin D requirements. This is
mainly because limited sun exposure can provide
more benefits to your body than Vitamin D
supplements. The two types of Vitamin D differ in
the following ways D3 is far more potent in
raising maintaining the concentrations of
Vitamin D in the body than D2 Vitamin D3 is
converted into active form of Vitamin D 500 more
times faster than D2 Vitamin D2 has a very short
shelf-life and it also metabolizes the binds
poorly with proteins, which further hampers its
performance
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Learning about the source of Vitamin D
Oral Vitamin D supplements undoubtedly make the
best source of Vitamin D. Additionally, you can
also gain good amount of Vitamin D from your
diet. But, remember not all food sources provide
same type of Vitamin D. Plant sources provide
Vitamin D2 Animal sources, such as egg yolk,
fish tuna, salmon, tuna and raw milk are the
most common source of Vitamin D
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Importance of Getting the Right Vitamin D
Vitamin D is the key player in your overall
health. It would be interesting to learn that
Vitamin D is not a vitamin it is mainly a
hormone which influences more than 3,000 variant
genes in the body. The receptors that respond to
this hormone are present in almost every cell in
the body right from the brain cells to the
bones. Vitamin D helps your body fight
effectively against various infections and severe
chronic inflammations. With a capability of
producing over 200 antimicrobial peptides,
Vitamin D proves highly beneficial to fight away
influenza and cold.
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Vitamin D Deficiency Diseases

• It is very important to make sure you maintain
  optimum levels of Vitamin D levels in your body,
  irrespective of your age, sex, health status or
  color. This is because the deficiency of Vitamin
  D has been linked to a number of diseases, some
  of which include
• Hypertension
• Heart diseases
• Cancer
• Obesity
• Autism
• Diabetes Type 1 2
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Premature signs of aging

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Optimize Your Vitamin D Levels Ideally

• Although supplements make a good source of
  Vitamin D, it is crucial you practice ideal way
  of optimizing Vitamin D levels in your body
  through safe sun exposure. While your skin
  creates Vitamin D3 upon sun exposure, the
  benefits are practically same as Vitamin D3
  supplements you take orally. But, getting Vitamin
  D from the sun offers additional health benefits
  
• The skin synthesis cholesterol sulfate, when
  exposed to sun, which is extremely good for
  supporting cardiovascular health.
• When exposed to sun, the skin also synthesis
  Vitamin D3 sulfates, which are water soluble form
  of Vitamin D, unlike the vitamin D supplements,
  that are unsulfated.

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