Symptoms Of Low Vitamin D Levels

Vitamin D is probably the most important vitamin that we need to be concerned with in order to ensure optimal health. In fact, Vitamin D doesn’t function as a regular Vitamin in the human body but as a steroid hormone, going into the nucleus of almost every cell in the body to regulate gene expression.

It is best known for its role in bone health and therefore the best known symptoms of low vitamin d levels are associated with bone health, and rickets is the best known disease of vitamin d deficiency. If your deficiency isn’t severe, then you’re probably not gonna notice an effect on bone health until you get older and start suffering from things like osteoporosis. By that time, it will be too late to try to correct your low levels and your symptoms will be there for good.

There are other, lesser known symptoms of low vitamin d levels, not related to bone health at all. These are the big killers, cancer and heart disease, along with acne, depression, muscular disorders, autoimmune disorders, obesity and many, many more. These symptoms are so varied, that vitamin d may be a good suspect if you have any sort of mysterious health problem that your doctor doesn’t seem to know what to do about.

It is important to ensure that your vitamin d levels are optimal, because if they aren’t then you may not know about it until it’s too late, that is if you have developed one of the serious diseases that can be partly caused by vitamin d deficiency. Therefore I recommend that you have a blood test done and see if it would be a good idea for you to supplement with this vitamin.

Gluten consumption can reduce the half-life of the vitamin d in your system and reduce your intestinal absorption of nutrients, causing low blood levels. Magnesium intake can also augment vitamin d absorption and function, so it is important to make sure you’re also getting enough magnesium through your diet.

The symptoms of low vitamin d can therefore be various, ranging from depression to heart disease. I’m not trying to say that you can prevent any of those illnesses just by taking a supplement, but there is a ton of new research suggesting that you can significantly reduce your chances of developing them.

Many of these new researches are suggesting, that vitamin d may actually be a key player in the rising occurrence of the epidemic of western diseases. This is still being intensely investigated, but most government institutes haven’t changed their recommendations yet.