Check Your Vitamin D Levels Now!

Vitamin D plays an important role in maintaining good health. It is a vitamin that actually acts much like a hormone in your body. During the summer, your skin produces vitamin D and stores some of it in your liver.

In the winter months, your body uses stored vitamin D from the liver. If your liver stores are not adequate at the end of the summer, the blood will show low levels just before spring. That is why now is he best time to check your vitamin D levels.

Checking your levels now gives a much more accurate indication of whether you are getting enough vitamin D during the rest of the year. If you supplement regularly with vitamin D, your values should be much higher and may even be in the normal range.

Once thought to be just a vitamin necessary for strong bones, recent research indicates vitamin D deficiency plays a role in causing seventeen varieties of cancer as well as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, muscle wasting, birth defects, and periodontal disease.

If you would like to learn more about the importance of vitamin D and your health, please click on my newsletter article The Best Time to Check Your Vitamin D Levels.