10 Facts About Vitamin D and Sunlight Exposure,...

Vitamin D prevents osteoporosis, depression, prostate cancer, breast

cancer, and even effects diabetes and obesity. Vitamin D is perhaps the

single most underrated nutrient in the world of nutrition. That’s

probably because it’s free: your body makes it when sunlight touches

your skin. Drug companies can’t sell you sunlight, so there’s no

promotion of its health benefits. Truth is, most people don’t know the

real story on vitamin D and health.So here is a list of some facts

about vitamin D and Sunlight.

1. Vitamin D is produced by your skin in

response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation from natural sunlight.

2.

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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. People with dark skin pigmentation may need 20

- 30 times as much exposure to sunlight as fairskinned people to

generate the same amount of vitamin D. That’s why prostate cancer is

epidemic among black men -- it’s a simple, but widespread, sunlight

deficiency.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Even weak sunscreens block your body’s

ability to generate vitamin D by 95%. This is how sunscreen products

actually cause disease -- by creating a critical vitamin deficiency in

the body.

10. It is impossible to generate too much vitamin D in your

body from sunlight exposure: your body willself-regula te and only

generate what it needs.