OVERCOME VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY WITH ‘DIGICAL D3’.
What is vitamin D deficiency?
Vitamin
D deficiency means that you do not have enough vitamin D in your body. Vitamin
D is unique because your skin actually produces it by using sunlight.
Fair-skinned individuals and those who are younger convert sunshine into
vitamin D far better than those who are darker-skinned and over age 50.
What are the signs and symptoms of vitamin D
deficiency?
Severe
lack of vitamin D causes rickets, which shows up in children as incorrect
growth patterns, weakness in muscles, pain in bones and deformities in joints.
This is very rare. However, children who are deficient in vitamin D can also
have muscle weakness or sore and painful muscles.
Lack of vitamin D is
not quite as obvious in adults. Signs and symptoms might include:
- Fatigue.
- Bone pain.
- Muscle weakness, muscle aches,
or muscle cramps.
- Mood changes, like depression.
Why is vitamin D so important?
Vitamin
D is one of many vitamins our bodies need to stay healthy. This vitamin has
many functions, including:
- Keeping bones strong: Having healthy bones protects you from various
conditions, including rickets. Rickets is a disorder that causes children
to have bones that are weak and soft. It is caused by a lack of vitamin D
in the body. You need vitamin D so that calcium and phosphorus can be used
to build bones. In adults, having soft bones is a condition called osteomalacia.
- Absorbing calcium: Vitamin D, along with calcium, helps build bones and
keep bones strong and healthy. Weak bones can lead to osteoporosis,
the loss of bone density, which can lead to fractures.
Vitamin D, once either taken orally or from sunshine exposure is then
converted to an active form of the vitamin. It is that active form that
promotes optimal absorption of calcium from your diet.
- Working with parathyroid
glands: The parathyroid glands work
minute to minute to balance the calcium in the blood by communicating with
the kidneys, gut and skeleton. When there is sufficient calcium in the
diet and sufficient active Vitamin D, dietary calcium is absorbed and put
to good use throughout the body. If calcium intake is insufficient, or
vitamin D is low, the parathyroid glands will ‘borrow’ calcium from the
skeleton in order to keep the blood calcium in the normal range.
What are the health effects of vitamin D
deficiency?
Getting
enough vitamin D may also play a role in helping to keep you healthy by
protecting against the following conditions and possibly helping to treat them.
These conditions can include:
- Heart disease and high blood
pressure.
- Diabetes.
- Infections and immune system
disorders.
- Falls in older people.
- Some types of cancer, such
as colon, prostate and breast
cancers.
- Multiple
sclerosis.
Can medications cause a vitamin D deficiency?
Yes.
Vitamin D levels can be lowered by medications. You can rely upon :
DIGICAL D3
NANO SHOT
SACHET
DROPS
SOFTGEL CAPSULES
