Vitamin D

We don’t recommend a lot of supplementation, but Vitamin D could be a great supplement for you especially in these winter months where we don’t see the sun as much.

What does it do?

Vit-D is best known for its role in calcium and phosphorous metabolism.  A deficiency of Vit-D can cause rickets, but this lowly vitamin does so much more.

Vit-D is critical in:

• Fat metabolism
• Cancer Prevention (cell growth and apoptosis)
• Autoimmunity (regulating and normalizing immune response)
• Fertility
• Insulin resistance
• Types 1 and 2 diabetes
• Cardiovascular disease
• Anti-inflammatory as a Cox2 inhibitor

Vitamin D and Fish oil (more on that another day) are a hard choice for which one is more important for supplementation and these are really the only two things we are going to recommend you take.  Vit-D reduces and controls inflammation from a variety of angles, and it can be tough to get enough because we generally live indoors, thus limiting our light exposure.

*from The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf.

I started using Vit-D about last Feb and March and definitely noticed a difference in my mood.  I hate taking pills, but found this little tiny pill that offers 5,000 i.u (recommended in the book) and is less than $10 for a 2 month supply!  I have found it at the Good Earth and Sunflower Market.

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