Within the last few years, the scientific community has experienced a revolution in regards to Vitamin D.
There isn’t a conference or a congress where this topic is not featured in.
Vitamin D is a compound that our organism needs and synthesises.
90% of its sythetization takes part through the skin whilst the remaining 10% comes from food, including oily fish such as salmon as well as milk, egg yolks.
How does Vitamin D act?
In the beginning, it was thought that Vitamin D only aided towards the breaking down of calcium by allowing it to be deposited within our bones. If patients didn’t take enough calcium it would lead to rickets in children and Osteomalacia in adults; however, new discoveries have lead to the finding that Vitamin D works as a hormone meaning that it acts at a cellular level within our organism and in turn impacts the most on us.
Recent studies have found that 40% of adults older than 50 are experiencing deficiency of this vitamin.
This is also true for 52% of adolescents of Hispanic origins and White Americans, 48% of pre adolescent women as well as 39% of young healthy adults.
Deficiency of this vitamin is seen the highest in children from Mongolia with 60% of them affected as well as within women and children in the Middle East.
It could also be related to the following pathologies:
• Schizophrenia.
• Depression.
• Mood changes.
• Infectious diseases predominantly respiratory such as tuberculosis.
• Asthma
• Cystic Fibrosis.
• High blood pressure.
• Autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 Diabetes that is predominantly seen in children and adolescents.
• Multiple Sclerosis.
• Parkinson’s Disease.
• Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
• Fibromyalgia.
• Crohn’s Disease.
• Muscular and Bone ailment.
• Osteoarthritis.
• Osteoporosis.
• Skin Diseases such as Eczema, psoriasis or vitiligo.
• Dental diseases.
• Colon, Breast or Pancreatic Cancer.
The majority of researchers conclude that there is evidence that that Vitamin D protects the organism against the most severe of illnesses, and that around 13% of deaths that take place in the USA and 9% of in Europe, can be attributed to low levels of Vitamin D.
So, how can we obtain normal levels of Vitamin D?
Just by exposing our arms, face and legs for 5 to 30 minutes, twice a week to the sun, avoiding going out in mid afternoon and if the person is suffering from a deficiency, then adding these measures to supplements.
The diagnosis would be made through a blood test and all supplements taken should under the strict supervision of a doctor.
Dr J. Hurtado Martínez
Medical Director of HealthSalus
Vitamin D is a compound that our organism needs and synthesises.
90% of its sythetization takes part through the skin whilst the remaining 10% comes from food, including oily fish such as salmon as well as milk, egg yolks.
How does Vitamin D act?
In the beginning, it was thought that Vitamin D only aided towards the breaking down of calcium by allowing it to be deposited within our bones. If patients didn’t take enough calcium it would lead to rickets in children and Osteomalacia in adults; however, new discoveries have lead to the finding that Vitamin D works as a hormone meaning that it acts at a cellular level within our organism and in turn impacts the most on us.
Recent studies have found that 40% of adults older than 50 are experiencing deficiency of this vitamin.
This is also true for 52% of adolescents of Hispanic origins and White Americans, 48% of pre adolescent women as well as 39% of young healthy adults.
Deficiency of this vitamin is seen the highest in children from Mongolia with 60% of them affected as well as within women and children in the Middle East.
It could also be related to the following pathologies:
• Schizophrenia.
• Depression.
• Mood changes.
• Infectious diseases predominantly respiratory such as tuberculosis.
• Asthma
• Cystic Fibrosis.
• High blood pressure.
• Autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 Diabetes that is predominantly seen in children and adolescents.
• Multiple Sclerosis.
• Parkinson’s Disease.
• Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
• Fibromyalgia.
• Crohn’s Disease.
• Muscular and Bone ailment.
• Osteoarthritis.
• Osteoporosis.
• Skin Diseases such as Eczema, psoriasis or vitiligo.
• Dental diseases.
• Colon, Breast or Pancreatic Cancer.
The majority of researchers conclude that there is evidence that that Vitamin D protects the organism against the most severe of illnesses, and that around 13% of deaths that take place in the USA and 9% of in Europe, can be attributed to low levels of Vitamin D.
So, how can we obtain normal levels of Vitamin D?
Just by exposing our arms, face and legs for 5 to 30 minutes, twice a week to the sun, avoiding going out in mid afternoon and if the person is suffering from a deficiency, then adding these measures to supplements.
The diagnosis would be made through a blood test and all supplements taken should under the strict supervision of a doctor.
Dr J. Hurtado Martínez
Medical Director of HealthSalus
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