Vitamin D Is Free Yet We Don’t Get Enough And Our Health Is Suffering

Here’s why, and how to fix it

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Vitamin D is free — from sunshine, yet amazingly vitamin D deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency worldwide (2019).
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This deficiency is terrible for our health, and neglectful, considering how easy it is to get the optimum dose.

When we think of vitamin D we think of our bone health, but vitamin D deficiency is associated with much more, including:

• Higher morbidity and mortality especially in older adults;
• Muscle weakness and bone weakness (the latter because low vitamin D reduces dietary calcium absorption and the body then mines our bones for the missing calcium it needs);
• Reduced protein content in our bones (osteopenia);
• Softening of the bones (osteomalacia);
• Chronic musculoskeletal pain;
• Immunity and autoimmune diseases;
• Infectious diseases;
• Incidence of cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases; and,
• A growing number of dermatologic conditions such as atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, vitiligo, and cutaneous tumours.