Vitamin D is a vitamin that the body cannot produce on its own. It must be obtained from the food you eat or sunlight that touches the skin only. The unique properties of vitamin D are that it dissolves in fat. It functions to absorb calcium for use in the bone building process. It helps maintain the balance of calcium and phosphorus in the blood and helps the nervous system, brain, heart, lungs, immune system, and muscles throughout the body.
Our body receives vitamin D in two ways:
- Foods , such as cooked salmon or mackerel, canned tuna, and in foreign countries, vitamin D is added to milk, orange juice, สมัคร ufabet, yogurt, or even breakfast cereals that are fortified with vitamin D.
- Sunlight : In order to receive vitamin D from sunlight, the skin must be exposed to sunlight for at least 15 minutes every day, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts. Vitamin D3 is synthesized in our skin from UVB rays, which are rays with a short wavelength that strike the outermost layer of skin, or the epidermis, which is the area of skin where vitamin D is synthesized.
Benefits of vitamin D
- Helps reduce stress and fight depression.
- Helps you sleep better
- Helps reduce rheumatoid pain
- Helps the hormone synthesis system function
- Stimulates the body’s immune system
- Helps prevent allergies, autoimmune diseases (SLE)
- Helps the body absorb calcium well.
- Helps prevent osteoporosis and thinning bones.
- Helps control blood sugar and blood pressure levels
- Helps reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease
If we have low vitamin D or a vitamin D deficiency over a long period of time, what effect will it have on the body?
- auses osteomalacia
- Rickets
- Vitamin D deficiency is also associat with osteoporosis. An increase risk of falls and possible bone fractures.
- Vitamin D deficiency affects our health in other aspects besides our bones, such as muscle weakness, helps fight various cancers such as colon cancer , breast cancer , prostate cancer , stimulates the body’s immune system, including type 1 diabetes, MS (Multiple Sclerosis ) and inflammatory bowel disease ( IBD ).
Vitamins are nutrients that are essential to the body, such as vitamin C, vitamin B, vitamin A, and minerals. However, there is one vitamin that many people often overlook, but is very important: vitamin D , which helps strengthen bones. The body can synthesize it under the skin through the stimulation of UVB (Ultraviolet B) rays from sunlight. However, the current hot weather makes many people not want to go out and be expose to sunlight. And the lifestyle of working people who tend to spend more time indoors than outdoors, which may result in vitamin D deficiency.