Sunlight is the best source of vitamin D
We all know that the human body needs vitamins and minerals to survive. There are many different ways to supply your body with these nutrients, including fruits, vegetables, and nuts. Due to lack of proper diet and various other unhealthy habits, your body can face deficiencies. Vitamin deficiencies can cause various reactions in the body that affect organs. One such important nutrient is vitamin D. Health problems can occur if you don’t make sure you have adequate vitamin D. It is one of the vitamins that keeps bones, teeth and muscles healthy and regulates the amount of calcium and phosphate in the body. His Pooja Makhija, a nutritionist, shares different points of identification when the rate of vitamin D deficiency is on the rise.
In the caption, Pooja wrote: “Vitamin D is really a hormone, not a vitamin, and it is essential for far more important functions than just bone strength. Some things are more risky than others.”
These factors may increase your risk of vitamin D deficiency
1) Obesity
If you are overweight or obese, you may have less vitamin D in your body. Pooja Makhija says this is probably due to volume dilution into a greater amount of serum than just fat and muscle.
2) skin color
Darker skin can lead to vitamin D deficiency.Darker skin means less vitamin D synthesis, nutritionists say, because melanin interferes with vitamin absorption and synthesis.
3) some drugs
Cholesterol is required for endogenous production of vitamin D when taking lipid-lowering drugs such as statins that lower cholesterol. Therefore, taking cholesterol-lowering medications can lead to increased vitamin D deficiency.
4) some treatment
Bariatric surgery can lead to fat malabsorption. Consequently, gastric sleep and gastric bypass may therefore lead to increased vitamin D deficiency.
5) Digestive problems
If you have digestive problems such as irritable bowel syndrome, you also have fat malabsorption and floating stools. .
Finally, Pooja concludes:
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