Vitamin D – Don’t let the sunshine vitamin fade during winter

Vitamin D – Don’t let the sunshine vitamin fade during winter

As winter approaches and daylight hours continue to shorten, our intake of the sunshine vitamin becomes more critical than ever.  Vitamin D is referred to as a vitamin but is actually a hormone synthesized by our skin when exposed to ultraviolet B (UVB) rays or sunlight.  Despite the fact we can make vitamin D from sunlight and obtain it from food, it’s estimated 50% of children and adults worldwide are deficient causing a range of health problems.

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Weather Winter by Boosting Your Immune System

Want to get through the winter as healthy as possible?  Take special care of your immune system.  If there’s one system in our body we tend to neglect, it’s this one.  Only when we get sick do we remember how important it is.  Wintertime often means sharing close quarters with people and their germs, putting our immune system at risk.your body’s own personal department of defense, armed and ready to fight off any foreign 

substance that wants to cause you harm.  If it’s not fully functioning, you become more vulnerable

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