Vitamin D is perhaps the single most underrated nutrient in the world of nutrition. The sun shines and it’s there for everyone. Your body makes Vitamin D when sunlight touches your skin. (pretty convenient, huh?) Drug companies can’t sell you sunlight, so they’re not out there promoting its health benefits. Truth is, most people don’t […]
Somehow we never think about Vitamin D in terms of how low it can go in just about everyone – in other words a Vitamin D deficiency. Very few people have what would be considered therapeutic levels of the vitamin. Consider some of these numbers. -40% of the U.S. population is Vitamin D deficient. -42% […]
In talking about Vitamin D being the “Sunshine Vitamin”, we found some outrageously “wow, really?” facts. These are just a few: -Cave paintings indicate that the cave man believed exposure to sunlight was necessary for good health -Medical practitioners in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs reported the benefits of sun exposure -A famous hieroglyphic […]