Monday, September 10, 2012

Could Vitamin D Help You Avoid the Flu? - Articles - LifeTime WeightLoss

Could Vitamin D Help You Avoid the Flu? - Articles - LifeTime WeightLoss

More of a mainstream article addressing the need for optimal vitamin D levels to keep the immune system at peak performance. Excerpts from the article,  "Vitamin D triggers the body to make its own antibiotics called antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). These AMPs have been shown to inactivate the flu virus...Although it’s a northern climate country, Norway maintains the highest levels of vitamin D in Europe due to the population’s high levels of year-round fish consumption. There is also little rise in flu outbreaks in Norway compared with other European countries like Great Britain...[from] researchers who published an article in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition:

"Increasing serum 25(OH)D levels is the most cost-effective way to reduce global mortality rates, as the cost of vitamin D is very low and there are few adverse effects from oral intake and/or frequent moderate UVB irradiance with sufficient body surface area exposed.”

My family takes 2,000 IUs of D3 per person each day and we're all around 60-70 ng/ml, which is in the optimal range.





2 comments:

  1. Good Post. I was very low on Vitamin D, when I had my son. I am still low on it. Not sure, if that is one of the reasons for all his allergies.
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