1) Vitamin D deficiency can cause depression, especially in elderly populations, as vitamin D levels are linked to serotonin production and sun exposure. 2) Older adults and those who spend more time indoors are more prone to vitamin D deficiency as skin production decreases with age and indoor time limits sun exposure. 3) Overweight individuals need more vitamin D supplementation since body fat absorbs more of the vitamin, decreasing levels in blood circulation.

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1. You Feel “Blue” - Serotonin, the brain hormone associated with mood
elevation, rises with exposure to bright light and falls with decreased sun
exposure. In 2006, scientists evaluated the effects of vitamin D on the
mental health of 80 elderly patients and found those with the lowest
levels of vitamin D were 11 times more prone to be depressed than
those who received healthy doses.
2. You’re 40 or Older - As mentioned, as you get older your skin doesn’t
make as much vitamin D in response to sun exposure. At the same
time, your kidneys become less efficient at converting vitamin D into the
form used by your body and older adults tend to
spend more time indoors (i.e. getting even less sun
exposure and therefore vitamin D).
3. You’re Overweight or Obese (or Have a Higher
Muscle Mass) - Vitamin D is a fat-soluble, hormone-
like vitamin, which means body fat acts as a “sink”
by collecting it. If you’re overweight or obese,
you’re therefore likely going to need more vitamin
D than a slimmer person -- and the same holds
true for people with higher body weights due to
muscle mass.
4. Your Bones Ache - Aches and pains, especially
in combination with fatigue, end up being misdiagnosed as having
fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome. Many of these symptoms are
classic signs of vitamin D deficiency osteomalacia, which is different
from the vitamin D deficiency that causes osteoporosis in adults. What’s
happening is that the vitamin D deficiency causes a defect in putting
calcium into the collagen matrix into your skeleton. As a result, you have
throbbing, aching bone pain.
5. You Have Gut Trouble - Remember, vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin,
which means if you have a gastrointestinal condition that affects your
ability to absorb fat, you may have lower absorption of fat-soluble
vitamins like vitamin D as well. This includes gut conditions like Crohn’s,
Celiac and non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and inflammatory bowel
disease.
Optimizing your vitamin D levels can help protect against:
• Cardiovascular disease. Vitamin D is very important for reducing
hypertension, atherosclerotic heart disease, heart attack, and stroke. One
study showed that vitamin D deficiency increased the risk of
heart attack by 50 percent. What’s worse, if you have a heart
attack and you are vitamin D deficient, your risk of dying from
that heart attack creeps up to nearly 100 percent!
• Autoimmune diseases. Vitamin D is a potent immune
modulator, making it very important for the prevention of
autoimmune diseases, like multiple sclerosis and inflammatory
bowel disease.
• Infections, including influenza. It also helps you fight infections
of all kinds. A study done in Japan, for example,
showed that schoolchildren taking 1,200 units
of vitamin D per day during winter reduced their
risk of getting influenza A infection by about 40
percent. I believe it’s far more prudent, safer,
less expensive, and most importantly, far more
effective to optimize your vitamin D levels than to
get vaccinated against the flu.
• DNA repair and metabolic processes. One
study showed that healthy volunteers taking
2,000 IUs of vitamin D per day for a few months
up-regulated 291 different genes that control up
to 80 different metabolic processes, from improving DNA repair
to having effect on autoxidation (oxidation that occurs in the
presence of oxygen and/or UV radiation, which has implications
for aging and cancer, for example), boosting your immune
system and many other biological processes.
Health-Fit is proud to work with Biotics Research to provide you
with top of line dietary supplements and now carry one of the
best Vitamin D products on the market called Bio-D-Mulsion
Forte. This product supplies 2000 IU of vitamin D per drop as a
micro-emulsion product for increased absorption and utilization.
If you have any additional questions about Vitamin D or would
like to come in for treatment, please feel free to stop by during
office hours to set up an appointment or call our office at
561-997-8898 to schedule.
THESE ARE COMMON DESCRIPTIONS OF PEOPLE WHO SUFFER FROM VITAMIN D
DEFICIENCY. DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBE YOU?

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You may have heard of whole body
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regarding athletes and celebrities using
this therapy and endorsing its use. You
may have not heard of cryotherapy at
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about its use and function and whether
or not this therapy could be beneficial
to you.
Whole body cryotherapy involves
standing in a 360 partially enclosed
chamber that is pumped full of nitrogen
gas which lowers the temperature of the
chamber to approximately -240 degrees
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state and shunts blood to the heart
and lungs. For the duration of the three
minute session your blood is constantly
being saturated with oxygen since while
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the session is over, your body returns
to normal temperature and this newly
enriched blood is redirected to the rest
of your tissues.
Who does this help? This can help
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the most popular usage is for recovery of
fatigued and stressed tissues in athletes.
Training everyday can take its toll on
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helps restore peak function in tissues
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