The Truth about Vitamin D

Vitamin D doesn’t actually build bones but it transports and regulates the calcium needed for the process. Once you reach adulthood, your bones don’t grow longer as they did in your developing years, but bones renew themselves approximately every seven years. New bone cells replace discarded ones throughout your life. If vitamin D levels are not adequate to transport the calcium, collagen in your bones does not mineralize, making your skeleton weaker and prone to fractures. The lesson in this is that you need to activate your skin cells by safe exposure to sunlight so that vitamin D is produced in your body naturally, giving you a strong constitution – a genetic constitution, that is; no need to bring government into this. Therefore, SunHugg (verb here) every chance you get. Hand your bones the boost of SunHugg (noun).

Fun Facts from SunHugg:

• Exposure to sunlight never results in an overdose of vitamin D.
• The best alternative to sunlight for natural vitamin D is cod liver oil. Yes, that’s oil from a codfish’s liver.
• Does it make sense to take synthetic vitamin D if you are someone who buys only organic produce?
• Sunscreen with an SPF of 8 or higher blocks the skin’s ability to synthesize vitamin D from sunlight.
• Three important words: moderation, moderation, moderation…in how much sunlight you expose your skin to, in how much cod liver oil you take, or in how much supplemental vitamin D you ingest.
• It is thought that our skin burns more easily because of low-fat campaigns that are practically trying to rid us of dietary fat altogether. Nutritionists encourage consuming more healthy oils and fats to bolster the strength of our cellular walls and promote skin health.
• Again, remember moderation, moderation, moderation.