Important of Vitamin D

Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, plays an important role in preventing falls and fractures.

Calcium and vitamin D are both equally important in maintaining good bone health. However, the role of vitamin D is often underestimated.

Vitamin D has two main functions:
·It is needed for the absorption of calcium for healthy bones.
·It is also important for muscle strength and balance to prevent falls.
Low vitamin D leads to osteoporosis and weak muscles, and increases the risk of falls and fractures.

Benefits of vitamin D
Supplementation with adequate amounts of vitamin D has significant benefits when it comes to improved muscle function, and reduction in falls and fractures.
Sunlight is the major source of vitamin D. However, spending too much time indoors, cultural trends of clothing, increased skin pigmentation, increasing age (70-year-old women are only 25% as efficient at producing vitamin D with the same sun exposure as when they were 30 years of age), obesity and use of sunscreen have contributed to low vitamin D levels.

Read more about Vitamin D deficiency by Dr Wood, click here

Why you shall take Vitamin D - USANA, click here
Food that contains rich Vitamin D is mushroom, salmon, sardines, tuna fishes, eggs, cod liver oil etc.

Also refer to thestaronline 'Shedding Light on Vitamin D' and ' Gimme Some Sunshine'

Protect Liver

 

To understand more what human liver is.

The liver is one of the hardest working organs in the body, so it’s only natural that you should take special care of it.

DID you know that the liver is the largest solid organ in the body? If you place your right hand over the area under the ribs on the right side of your body, it will just about cover the area of your liver. It weighs some 1.8kg in men and 1.3kg in women, and holds approximately 13% of your total blood supply at any given moment.

The liver also performs over 5,000 important functions every minute of the day to keep your body going. It is dark reddish-brown in colour and is divided into two main lobes (the much larger right and the smaller left), which are further subdivided into approximately 100,000 small lobes, or lobules.

What are the liver functions ?

Now, let’s take a look at the functions of the liver. The liver has a multitude of important and complex functions. Some of these functions include:
·Manufacturing (synthesise) proteins and blood clotting factors.
·Synthesising, storing, and processing fats, including fatty acids (used for energy) and cholesterol.
·Metabolising and storing carbohydrates, which are used as a source of sugar (glucose) in the blood that red blood cells and the brain use.
·Forming and secreting bile that contains bile acids to aid in intestinal absorption (taking in) of fats and the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K.
·Eliminating potentially harmful biochemical products produced by the body, such as ammonia (from the breakdown of proteins).
·Detoxifying drugs, alcohol, and environmental toxins.
·Combating infections in the body.

To understand more about liver function, click here
To protect your liver by taking HepasilDTX, click here

In the next blog, will describe what cause liver disease and what are the prevention to protect liver.