Amazing Benefits of Vitamin D - Even Weight Loss

It has been known for years that Vitamin D is really important for human health.   It has recently been identified that Vitamin D plans a critical role in regulating the immune system and other bodily processes.  High enough vitamin D consumption has been shown to help or even cure chronic diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease.   With all of this known Vitamin D levels are deficient all around the world.

Vitamin D and Weight Loss
Every cell in your body needs vitamin D to function properly.
Special receptors for vitamin D signal whether you burn fat or store it. Vitamin D plugs into these receptors and increases your metabolism.  Your brain also uses Vitamin D to keep your hunger and cravings under control as well.  When you consume vitamin D your ability to absorb other weight loss nutrients increases as well.  Overall, Vitamin D helps your body get out of the fat storage state and into a fat burning state.  Vitamin D increases weight loss by nearly 70%.

How to Get it
Get out in the sun.  Researcher’s have found that 50 to 90  percent of a person’s Vitamin D is produced when they are exposed to sunlight.  The rest can be supplemented from diet.  Time spent in the sun and skin pigmentation effects Vitamin D levels.  Darker skin does not absorb as quickly. Deficiencies seem to be higher in the middle east due to a high practice of avoiding sun exposure.  Levels are also lower in Africa due to the darker pigmentation of the native skin.  Between a Vitamin D3 supplement and sunlight you should shoot for 8,000 IU’s a day.