VITAMIN D: Why You Are Not Getting Enough And How That Makes You Sick
Mark Hyman, MD
Practicing physician and pioneer in functional medicine
Huffington Post
1) What vitamin may we need in amounts up to 25 times higher than the government recommends for us to be healthy?
2) What vitamin deficiency affects 70-80 percent of the population, is almost never diagnosed and has been linked to many cancers, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, depression,(i) fibromyalgia, chronic muscle pain, bone loss and autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis?(ii)
3) What vitamin may we need in amounts up to 25 times higher than the government recommends for us to be healthy?
4) What vitamin deficiency affects 70-80 percent of the population, is almost never diagnosed and has been linked to many cancers, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, depression,(i) fibromyalgia, chronic muscle pain, bone loss and autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis?(ii)
5) What vitamin is almost totally absent from our food supply?
6) What vitamin is the hidden cause of much suffering that is easy to treat?
The answer to all of these questions is vitamin D.
Over the last 15 years of my practice, my focus has been to discover what the body needs to function optimally. Vitamin D, a nutrient (more of a hormone and gene modulator) is a critical, essential ingredient for health and optimal function. The problem is that most of us don't have enough of it because we work and live indoors, use sun block and can't get enough from our diet--even in fortified foods.
Two recent studies in the journal Pediatrics found that 70 percent of American kids aren't getting enough vitamin D, and this puts them at higher risk of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and lower levels of good cholesterol. (iii) Low vitamin D levels also may increase a child's risk of developing heart disease later in life.
No comments:
Post a Comment