Vitamin D and other supplements
It’s a great time to stock up on Shawnee Mission Medical Center nutritional supplements. These products are certified by the U.S. Pharmacopeia and Good Manufacturing Practice requirements under the Food and Drug administration. Now through April 8 they are all 20% off regular price.
One of the supplements that is receiving a lot of attention recently is Vitamin D. Vitamin D can help prevent osteoporosis, depression, prostate cancer, and breast cancer.. Vitamin D is often considered the single most underrated nutrient in the world of nutrition. Vitamin D is produced by your skin in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation from natural sunlight. With our culture that spends so much time indoors than in generations past, it is imperative that we supplement our sun exposure.
Diseases and conditions cause by Vitamin D deficiency:
• Osteoporosis is commonly caused by a lack of Vitamin D, which greatly impairs calcium absorption.
• "Rickets" is the name of a bone-wasting disease caused by Vitamin D deficiency.
• Vitamin D deficiency may exacerbate type 2 diabetes and impair insulin production in the pancreas.
• Obesity impairs Vitamin D utilization in the body, meaning obese people need twice as much Vitamin D.
It is important to supplement your diet with Vitamin D because:
1. The healing rays of natural sunlight (that generate Vitamin D in your skin) cannot penetrate glass. So you don't generate Vitamin D when sitting in your car or home.
2. It is nearly impossible to get adequate amounts of Vitamin D from your diet. Sunlight exposure is the only reliable way to generate Vitamin D in your own body.
3. A person would have to drink ten tall glasses of Vitamin D fortified milk each day just to get minimum levels of Vitamin D into their diet.
4. The further you live from the equator, the longer exposure you need to the sun in order to generate Vitamin D. Canada, the UK and most U.S. states are far from the equator.
5. Sufficient levels of Vitamin D are crucial for calcium absorption in your intestines. Without sufficient Vitamin D, your body cannot absorb calcium, rendering calcium supplements useless.
6. Chronic Vitamin D deficiency cannot be reversed overnight: it takes months of Vitamin D supplementation and sunlight exposure to rebuild the body's bones and nervous system.
7. Even weak sunscreens (SPF=8) block your body's ability to generate Vitamin D by 95%.
Shawnee Mission Medical Center Vitamin D3 is 1000 IU per softgel and contains NO artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives; no wheat, gluten, milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, crustacean shellfish or fish. It can be found at Santé, The Gift Shop, and Mission Market Place.
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