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Between W Northern Lights Blvd. and W Benson Blvd.

west of C Street and east of McDonalds on Arctic Blvd.

What is Vitamin D?

Vitamin D is a substance that functions like a vitamin (as a fat-soluble vitamin it is stored in fat tissue in the body), but it is also a hormone. Its many activities include regulating bone health, muscle health, immune system response, insulin and blood sugar levels, and calcium and phosphorus metabolism.

Vitamin D (in the form of D3) is manufactured by the body through exposure to sunlight.

Vitamin D is perhaps the single most underrated nutrient in the world of nutrition. That’s probably because it’s free: Drug companies can’t sell you sunlight, so there’s no promotion of its health benefits that prevents osteoporosis, depression, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and even effects diabetes and obesity. Truth is, most people don’t know the real story on vitamin D and health.

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. 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.

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.

Shocking Vitamin D deficiency statistics:

· 32% of doctors and med school students are vitamin D deficient.

· 40% of the U.S. population is vitamin D deficient.

· 42% of African American women of childbearing age are deficient in vitamin D.

· 48% of young girls (9-11 years old) are vitamin D deficient.

· Up to 60% of all hospital patients are vitamin D deficient.

· 76% of pregnant mothers are severely vitamin D deficient, causing widespread vitamin D deficiencies in their unborn children, which predisposes them to type 1 diabetes, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia later in life. 81% of the children born to these mothers were deficient.

· Up to 80% of nursing home patients are vitamin D deficient.