Start the winter healthy with vitamin D

While we were treated to a few rays of sunshine and warmer temperatures in October, the dark season has now arrived in November.

So while we wake up in the morning and are greeted by darkness, rushing tiredly from A to B at 3 degrees Celsius and struggling through everyday life with a chronically bad mood, we often get sick.

Respiratory infections and extreme fatigue are particularly common between November and April and doctors' offices are overcrowded.

The good news at this point: You can prevent general fatigue, chronically bad mood, declining physical performance and respiratory infections in winter.

How do you do that? Of course (among other things) with vitamin D supplementation !

Why do colds often occur in winter?

It has long been suspected that an insufficient supply of vitamin D could be responsible for these waves of colds .

Because a) the sun rarely shines in winter and b) even when the sky is cloudless, the winter solar power in Central Europe is not enough to get the body's own vitamin D production going.

Theoretically, people in northern latitudes should be able to live on the vitamin D reserves that their bodies build up in the summer. However, there are many factors that make it difficult or even impossible to build up these stocks in the summer.

On the one hand, there is not always sunshine even in summer and on the other hand, the excessive use of sun protection creams and modern working life prevent an adequate supply of the sun vitamin.

So if you start the winter with a inadequate vitamin D supply, you don't have to be surprised about health problems.

How you can counteract susceptibility to infections with vitamin D

One of the main roles of vitamin D is to support and regulate the immune system *.

Defense cells only start looking for intruders after they have been activated by vitamin D. Therefore, frequent susceptibility to infections is one of the symptoms of a vitamin D deficiency.

Bacteria and viruses now have an easy time of it and those affected constantly suffer from infections, mostly of the respiratory tract. So if you are one of those people who catches every cold around you, be sure to check your vitamin D levels.

Studies have shown that taking 4,000 IU of vitamin D daily can significantly reduce the risk of respiratory infections.**

However, since most of us are in a severe deficiency situation, in our opinion dosages of 10,000 IU or 20,000 IU make sense to replenish stores and keep them constant.

 

Does vitamin D also work for chronic exhaustion and tiredness?

A vitamin D deficiency is one of the causes of chronic tiredness, exhaustion and also chronically depressed mood, as it is involved in numerous metabolic processes in the body.***

Since these conditions can be very stressful, many people go to the doctor and get checked out. When examining these symptoms, you should always do a vitamin D test .

However, when evaluating the vitamin D test, many patients are told that everything is fine, even if the patient in question is anything but fine . They often go home without being able to determine a cause for their symptoms.

Unfortunately, vitamin D levels from 20 ng/ml (25-OH vitamin D3 value) are considered sufficient. However, this value is far too low ! If these patients had a vitamin D value above 40 ng/ml , they would actually feel better in many cases.

We recommend that you counteract the development of chronic symptoms by taking care of your vitamin D levels .

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