Description: Vitamin D was considered nothing more than a secondary nutrient that helped the bone-building mineral make its move from the belly to the bloodstream and eventually plant itself in the skeleton. In time past, Vitamin C was considered the most important vitamin but now new research suggests that Vitamin D may be one of the best vitamins of all for your body. It has uncovered up to 2,000 different genes, roughly one-sixth of the human genome, that are regulated by the nutrient meaning almost everything your body does relies on it. "It affects cell death and proliferation, insulin production, and even the immune system," says Michael F. Holick, Ph.D., M.D., Director of the Vitamin D, Skin, and Bone Research Laboratory at the Boston University Medical Center. Translation: Low Vitamin D will result in your body working far below it's potential. And you're probably not getting anywhere near the right amount. Here's why you'll be hearing a lot more about it and how you can score what you need to avoid a Vitamin D deficiency and make your body function at it's absolute max. How deficient are we? According to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, experts believe that up to 77 percent of Americans are Vitamin D deficient. Vitamin D is one of the few vitamins our bodies can actually make? Sunlight converts a cholesterol-like substance naturally found in the skin into Vitamin D. Problem is, thanks to UV rays and skin cancer, soaking up sun to make more Vitamin D would do you more harm than good. For your skin to make enough, you'd need direct midday summer sunlight on a huge portion of your body for 15 minutes a day risking serious sun damage. In most places in the United States north of Georgia it would be impossible to get enough Vitamin D from sunlight between October and March, no matter how exposed you are. To add, it is even tougher for people of color to make Vitamin D the melanin in dark skin decreases Vitamin D production by up to 90 percent. To make matters worse, Vitamin D is missing from the food we eat, says Beth Kitchin, M.S., R.D., Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences and Patient Educator in the Osteoporosis Treatment and Prevention Clinic at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. VistaLife Vitamin D-3 1000 i.u. softgels supply recommended levels of this key vitamin in a highly-absorbable liquid softgel form. Vitamin D is normally obtained from the diet or produced by the skin from the ultraviolet energy of the sun. However, it is not abundant in food. As more people avoid sun exposure, Vitamin D supplementation becomes even more necessary to ensure that your body receives an adequate supply.
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