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Vitamin D - A thread: Everything you did not know you needed to know about vitamin D. #VitaminD #nutrientawareness
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Rather than being a true vitamin, vitamin D is actually a group of fat-soluble steroid hormones—the most important for human health being vitamin D3, or cholecalciferol, and vitamin D2, or ergocalciferol. #VitaminD #nutrientawareness
12:02 PM - Jun 12, 2023
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The liver and kidney are needed to turn vitamin D3 and vitamin D2 into the active form, 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (usually shortened to 1,25(OH)2D). #VitaminD #nutrientawareness
12:03 PM - Jun 12, 2023
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Vitamin D can be synthesized from sun exposure, with the help of a special sterol in the skin that reacts with the sun’s UVB radiation. #VitaminD #nutrientawareness
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The vitamin D receptor is found on nearly every cell in the body, allowing vitamin D to control the expression of over 200 genes (as well as the proteins regulated by those genes)! #VitaminD #nutrientawareness
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Vitamin D helps facilitate the absorption of several other minerals—namely calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus. This contributes to its role in maintaining healthy bones. #VitaminD #nutrientawareness
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Vitamin D plays a major role in gut health: it reduces intestinal inflammation, regulates gut barrier function, reduces the risk of inflammatory bowel diseases, & improves the gut microbiome (reducing levels of opportunistic pathogens & increasing bacterial richness). #VitaminD #nutrientawareness
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Vitamin D may influence cancer risk and progression, both through its role in cellular differentiation and through direct action on cancer cells that express the vitamin D receptor. #VitaminD #nutrientawareness
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There’s a complex relationship between vitamin D and skin cancer, due to sun exposure increasing both vitamin D levels (which lowers cancer risk) and DNA damage in the skin (which raises cancer risk). #VitaminD #nutrientawareness
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Vitamin D contributes to cardiometabolic health through its beneficial effects on blood pressure, endothelial function, insulin sensitivity, glucose tolerance, lipid storage, fat cell formation, & hormone regulation—giving it a protective role against diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity.
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Vitamin D may even boost neurological health, reducing cognitive degeneration and protecting against some neurodegenerative diseases (like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease). #VitaminD #nutrientawareness
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Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency is widespread, and can lead to impaired immune function, increased risk of fractures, pregnancy complications, rickets in children, and higher total mortality. It can also increase the risk of numerous chronic diseases. #VitaminD #nutrientawareness
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Now that you know how important vitamin D is you may be asking yourself - How much do I need? What foods have high concentrations of vitamin D? You can learn that & more in my article linked here. #nutrivore #nutrientawareness
https://nutrivore.com/nutr...
09:04 AM - Jun 13, 2023
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In response to Dr. Sarah Ballantyne.
What do you think of vitamin K2 as MK-7 in partnership with vitamin D3? My vitamin D levels always hung around 32 (I take 2000IU of vitamin D daily) but when I added 100 mcg of the vitamin K2/MK-7, they went up to 38.
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