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Article Written By Paul Kroto
Master’s Degree In Nutrition and Exercise Physiology
Certified By The American College of Sports Medicine
Certified By The National Strength and Conditioning Association as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist

Lack of Vitamin D and Fatigue

One of the best things to take if you tend to be tired or if you have chronic fatigue syndrome is vitamin D.  A slow increase in fatigue can be explained by a lack of vitamin D.

Vitamin D has a half-life of about two months in the system.  If a person starts getting less sunlight, the amount of vitamin D in their body will slowly decline over a period of months leaving you more and more fatigued.

Lack of Vitamin D and Your Immune System

Lack of vitamin D can greatly weaken your immune system which can leave you vulnerable to infections and allergies that cause even more fatigue.

To understand why a weakened immune system can cause allergies, you have to understand what an allergy is.  An allergy is when the immune system attacks something it should ignore. The immune system should ignore pollen, but instead it attacks it.  Have you ever noticed how difficult it is to tell the difference between a cold and an allergy?  When you get a cold, a virus invades the throat and sinuses.  The body then tries to make these places less hospitable to the virus by flushing out the area with mucous.  When you have a pollen allergy, pollen gets into these areas.  The immune system should leave it alone, but because it is weakened and not functioning properly it attacks the pollen the same way it attacks a virus.

Vitamin D is also important in the prevention and treatment of Breast Cancer and Colon Cancer.  It is also necessary for proper thyroid function and normal blood clotting.

Vitamin D, Your Bones and Teeth

Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium.  Without it, you can eat all the calcium you want, but your body will not be able to use it.  Vitamin D has been found to be involved in at least 30 processes throughout the body.

If your body does not have sufficient calcium, it will start to produce parathyroid hormone (PTH).  PTH causes your body to take calcium and phosphorous from your bones.  Insufficient vitamin D will weaken both your bones and teeth.

Vitamin D and Your Gums

I had a recent dental appointment and my doctor could not believe how much my gum disease has improved from taking the Vitamin D found in Sip of Sunshine by Suzanne Somers.

Where Does Vitamin D Come From?

Vitamin D is created when ultraviolet light from the sun strikes the skin.  UV light is usually only present at mid-day.  Just a small change in your schedule could result in a large reduction in vitamin D.  The only food that naturally contains significant Vitamin D is fish liver.

Are We Getting Enough Vitamin D?

In northern areas, there is very little ultraviolet light available in the wintertime.  Significant UV light is only available from the hours of 10AM through 2PM (11-3 daylight savings time).  Of course, sunscreen filters most UV light.  Even untinted windows filter out most UV light.  Your commute to work and back in the morning and afternoon doesn’t help you get the Vitamin D you need.

Many of us simply don’t get outside in the middle of the day.  Many adults don’t drink enough milk or eat much fish.  If we don’t get outside and don’t take vitamins, there is a very high probability that we have insufficient Vitamin D.

Our stone-age ancestors were hunter/gatherers or farmers and spent most of their time in the sun without a lot of clothes.  Our ancestors got ten times the amount of vitamin D that we get today.

Today, we spend more and more time inside.  When I was a child, parents encouraged children to play outside to get fresh air and sunshine.  Today, kids have video games and over 100 TV channels to keep them inside.  They are more likely to have karate classes or other activities that are held indoors.

People are spending less and less time outside.  The rate of rickets among children is triple what it was a few years ago.

Studies on people that spend a lot of time in the sun such as lifeguards and farmers show that they can have twice as much vitamin D in their blood as other people.

In recent years, we’ve been repeatedly advised to stay out of the sun and use sunscreen.  If we don’t get out in the sun and don’t drink milk or eat fish, there are no other sources of vitamin D.  It is the forgotten vitamin.

Vitamin D, How Much Do You Need Per Day?

2,000 iu per day is the perfect amount of vitamin D for both children and adults so all you need is 1 Sip of Sunshine packet every morning and you are good to go for the day!  (It would take 20 glasses of milk per day (8oz each) to get 2000 iu of Vitamin D per day)

Vitamin D initially enters the body in one form and is then converted to a more active form. Once you start taking Sip of Sunshine everyday, it can take about six weeks before the levels of active Vitamin D peak in your bloodstream.  It can take weeks to see an improvement.

In some cases of severe deficiency, large doses of vitamin D have been shown to have amazing results.  One doctor treated five wheelchair bound patients with large doses of vitamin D.  Four completely recovered in a few months!!

When you get up in the morning, write down how you feel.  Was it hard or easy to get out of bed? Do you feel foggy?  Does your back hurt?  Do you have sinus pressure?  Or do you feel really good?  As the day goes on and these things change, write it down or better still, enter it into a word processing document.

You will find that by consistently taking 2000 iu of Vitamin D every day you will start to feel better and better over time.

1 Sip of Sunshine packet by Suzanne Somers contains exactly 2000 iu of Vitamin D along with a host of other Essential Vitamins and GliSODin which naturally raises your Glutathione levels!

Be sure to contact the person that sent you to this site and get your Sip of Sunshine TODAY!!