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By yours truly,

Abdulaziz AlShehab

Like any vitamin, it’s a chemical that is needed by your body for good health. They are vital for everyone and ensure that your body works well, is able to fight illness and heal well.

Vitamin D has to be changed by your body a number of times before it can be used. Once it’s ready, your body uses it to manage the amount of calcium in your blood, bones and gut and to help cells all over your body to communicate properly.

Vitamin D is very important for strong bones. Calcium and phosphorus are essential for developing the structure and strength of your bones, and you need vitamin D to absorb these minerals. Even if you eat foods that contain a lot of calcium and phosphorus, without enough vitamin D, you can’t absorb them into your body. Vitamin D is important for general good health, and researchers now are discovering that vitamin D may be important for many other reasons outside of good bone health. Some of the functions of the body that vitamin D helps with include:

Immune system, which helps you to fight infection

Muscle function

Cardiovascular function, for a healthy heart and circulation

Respiratory system –for healthy lungs and airways

Brain development

Anti-cancer effects

…more from itching!

Vitamin D isn’t like most other vitamins. Your body can make its own vitamin D when you expose your skin to sunlight. But your body can’t make other vitamins. You need to get other vitamins from the foods you eat. For example, you need to get vitamin C from fruits and vegetables.

Getting the right amount of vitamin D doesn’t depend on the foods you eat. To get enough vitamin D you need to expose your skin to sunlight regularly if not, address to supplements. This makes getting the right amount a little more complex compared to other vitamins and minerals.

Also what makes vitamin D unique compared to other vitamins, is that when your body gets its vitamin D, it turns vitamin D into a hormone. This hormone is sometimes called “activated vitamin D” or “calcitriol.”

Vitamin D mainly comes from your skin when it is exposed to sunlight. After that, your body goes through a number of chemical processes to change it so that your body can use it.

When your skin is exposed to the sun, it produces vitamin D and sends it to your liver. If you take supplements or eat foods that contain vitamin D, your gut also sends the vitamin D to your liver. From here, your liver changes it to a substance called 25(OH)D.

This chemical is sent all over your body where different tissues, including your kidney, turn it into activated vitamin D. This activated vitamin D is now ready to perform its duties. From here, it gets a little complicated, but you can think of activated vitamin D working in two ways:

Manages calcium in your blood, bones and gut

Helps cells all over your body to communicate properly

As you can see, vitamin D goes a long way from its original form from the skin, supplement or food. But without vitamin D, your body can’t perform at its best.

According toVitaminDCouncil.org: “Doctors are still working to fully understand how vitamin D works within your body and how it affects your overall health.”

Evropi Theodoratou of the Centre for Population Health Sciences at the University of Edinburgh in U.K and colleagues reviewed more than 260 earlier studies which include clinical trials and observational studies on the potential health benefits of Vitamin D when consumed from natural sources and taken as a supplement.

The researchers found that of the 137 health benefits

associated with vitamin D, only 10 were based on what they consider as rigorous trials and

only one study which

links a child's birth weight to the vitamin D levels of the mother during the third trimester of pregnancy showed evidence of Vitamin D benefit which means that there are hardly evidence to establish Vitamin D's role in the outcomes.

Based on studies made by Stephen D. Patterson and Richard A. Ferguson at School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, Vitamin D isn’t really a vitamin, but acts like a steroid hormone. Useful for those wanting to hop the gain train.

It is a “secosteroid”, responsible to:

Build muscle & strength

Increase testosterone + dhea levels

Pumping androgen receptor sensitivity

According to a study conducted at Purdue University, a study was made on rodents with a diet with no whey protein, suboptimal calcium (0.25%), and vitamin D (400 IU/kg), and another group had a dietary whey protein diet, high calcium, and high vitamin D intake for 13 weeks.

*drum roll*

The results demonstrated there were no consistent differences between both groups, and the end result that both groups had reduced accumulation of body fat mass, and increased lean mass!

Cholecalciferol is a dietary supplement that is used to treat vitamin D deficiency. It is also used with calcium to maintain bone strength.

Extra Virgin Olive Oil is used to make your salads taste better.

The rest are inactive ingredients.

Viamin D Insufficiency:

400-1000 IU

Vitamin D Deficiency:

1000 IU

Prevention of falls:

800 IU w/ calcium

Prevention of Fractures (patients over 65 years of age)

100,000 IU every 4 months

Although I prefer obtaining our IU dosages of vitamins…minerals…naturally. Vitamin D seems to be an exception due to the limitation of its natural resource in nature.

For instance, people in Alaska would want to resort to supplementation due to infrequent strength.

Sun burnt is also another term for overdosing on vitamin D.

They’re getting sued.

Further studies are needed to clarify the many gaps in knowledge and elucidate the role of vitamin D in the context of reproduction.

Confirmation of experimental observations relating to the risks of Vitamin D would have important public health implications.

And these need to be done ASAP, so that I can start looking at the guy on the right

Vitamin D, Third Edition by Feldman D, Pike JW, Adams JS. Elsevier Academic Press, 2011.

"Effects of a Long-term Vitamin D and Calcium Supplementation on Falls and Parameters of Muscle Function in Community-dwelling Older Individuals." NCBI. U.S. National Library of Medicine, n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2014.

"Dietary Intervention with Vitamin D, Calcium, and Whey Protein Reduced Fat Mass and Increased Lean Mass in Rats." NCBI. U.S. National Library of Medicine, n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2014.

"Vitamin D Status and Its Relation to Muscle Mass and Muscle Fat in Young Women." NCBI. U.S. National Library of Medicine, n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2014.

"Cholecalciferol Dosage - Drugs.com." Cholecalciferol Dosage - Drugs.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2014.