Vitamin D -the sunshine vitamin Health benefits & side effects-by Dr Harold Gunatillake Transcript: Good morning to all my viewers. Let us discuss today about vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, its health benefits, and side effects. Vitamin D – the super nutrient, also known as the sunshine vitamin, is surrounded by mystery and confusion, and is linked to many benefits from bone health to immune boosting. If you are light skinned with little pigment just exposing the body to the sun for 15 minutes is all that is required, and oral supplementation is not necessary. Dark skin people have a problem. The thick dark pigmented layer melanin in the skin will prevent the ultraviolet rays from penetrating through the skin, and the chances of the skin synthesizing vitamin D is questionable. They need to expose their bodies for about 45 minutes daily. Studies have shown that the vitamin D ...
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Have you checked your blood vitamin D level, lately?-by Dr Harold Gunatillake Transcript: Why is it so important to check your vitamin D, today? Vitamin D has many roles in the body and is essential for optimal health, especially in the present climate with the COVID pandemic. Vitamin D, is required to absorb calcium and phosphate from our diet, and those minerals are important for healthy bones, teeth and muscles. Vitamin D deficiency is common among people, living with no symptoms, and in fact, it is estimated that about 1 billion people worldwide do not get enough of this vitamin. In Sri Lanka, though it is a sunny tropical island, the incidence of vitamin D deficiency is high. Though they customerally don’t wear hats, avoid the sun as much as possible, ladies use umbrellas outdoor. Reasons for vitamin D deficiency include low vitamin D intake, relatively high adiposity, sun exposure ...
I was asked, “What is the difference between vitamin D2 and D3?” – Good advice from Dr. Harold image source: hyat Vitamin D3 is produced in your skin from cholesterol (7-dehydrocholesterol) triggered due to exposure to the UVB radiation from the sun. But unfortunately, Sri Lankans even in Sri Lanka may not get sufficient vitamin D3, being a tropical country with full day sunshine, because they are indoors at home and at workplace, travel in air-conditioned vehicles, and always attempts to avoid the direct sun. Traditionally, Sri Lankans don’t seem to wear hats. You need at least half hour exposure to direct UVB rays of the sun for pigmented people and twenty minutes exposure for light skin individuals. Light skin people could get sunburnt if over-exposed and becomes a major risk factor for skin cancer. The alternative is to take vitamin D capsules as a supplement. This ‘sunshine’ vitamin ...
Mar 9, 2018
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