According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare's National Nutrition Program, nearly 70% of Taiwan's population has a vitamin D deficiency. Taiwan University Hospital Department of Orthopedics attending physician Yang Rongsen has pointed out that if the human body lacks vitamin D will lead to adult osteochondrosis, as well as muscle weakness, easy to fall, so the risk of accidents will be greatly increased. And a lack of vitamin D may also be associated with high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, depression, dementia, and cancer!
6 ways that a vitamin D deficiency can affect your body
1. Easy to get sick: Carolyn Brown, a New York-based nutritionist, said that vitamin D plays an important role in the immune system, so people who are deficient in vitamin D tend to be weak and susceptible to illness.
2. Emotional anxiety: Vitamin D regulates the balance of serotonin, so if you feel anxious, nervous, or impatient, it may be due to a lack of vitamin D.
This is the first time that we have seen a vitamin D deficiency.
3. Muscle weakness: Vitamin D enters muscle cells during metabolism and enhances muscle contraction, which can support muscle function, and many common muscle aches and pains are often the first symptom of vitamin D deficiency.
4. Osteoporosis:
Vitamin D is a bone booster that helps the small intestine absorb calcium, maintains the balance of calcium in the blood, and promotes the calcification of the bones, so that if the public often feel joint pain, foot cramps, and supplementation of calcium is not slowed down, it may be a lack of vitamin D.
This is the first time that we have seen a vitamin D deficiency!
5. Dry skin: Vitamin D can promote skin metabolism, lack of vitamin D, the skin is prone to ulcers, ringworm, but also cause dry skin, long red spots.
6. Cardiovascular disease:
Research has found that people who lack Vitamin D have a higher chance of having a stroke and heart attack, and the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease is also elevated.
How to supplement vitamin D?According to the author of "A D a Day: Vitamin D helps you take care of your health," Dr. Jiang Kunjun, the sun can get about 80 to 90% of the vitamin D; and intake of food can get about 10 to 20% of the vitamin. So, most of the vitamin D available to the human body is synthesized by sun exposure.
How do you sunbathe in order to replenish vitamin D? The UVB rays of the sun are the key to helping the human body synthesize vitamin D. However, they do not penetrate glass, so sunbathing indoors with glass in the background will not synthesize vitamin D. On the contrary, it will cause skin aging due to the UVA rays that penetrate the glass. It is recommended to sunbathe in the morning at 9~10 o'clock or 3~4 o'clock in the afternoon, so that the face, arms, legs or back to sunbathe for 5~30 minutes. However, it is also important to note that the intensity of UV rays in each place is different, and overdoing it will increase the risk.