10 reason why you may be deficient in vitamin D

You know vitamin D is a very interesting vitamin it's not really a vitamin it's a hormone .But today I want to talk about the 10 reason why you may be deficient in vitamin D.

10 reasons why you may be deficient in vitamin D:

 so there's a lot of reasons why people are deficient vitamin D it could be:

1. Diet : they're not consuming enough fatty fish olive oil in fact it's almost impossible to get your vitamin D requirement from the diet.  
2. The sun : you're indoors you're not on the sun that could be a reason .
3. The age : you're getting older as your age. 
4. Skin color : your skin gets thicker and you have less absorption of vitamin D through the skin  it could be your skin color because the darker the skin the more melanin in your skin which blocks UV light which reduces the absorption of vitamin D . 
5. Obesity : the more weight you have on your body the less vitamin D you're going to be able to absorb .
6.  Metabolic syndrome : this includes diabetes high blood pressure insulin resistance.
7. Inflammation : if you have a lot of inflammation in your body you're not going to be able to absorb very much vitamin D .
8. Malabsorption : and this also includes a lack of bile or let's say you had your gallbladder removed you're not going to be able to absorb vitamin D too well.
9. Infection : when you have infections whether viral or bacterial that's going to inhibit your vitamin D absorption. 
10. polymorphism : The focus of this blog, so what is that ?

What is polymorphism?

The polymorphism is a mutation or alteration in the genes ,that control the vitamin D receptor and there's six known mutations or variations of this gene, and you can get your genes tested to see if you have any of these .But if you have polymorphism, what's happening is you have the vitamin D that's supposed to be traveling through your blood to connect to the vitamin D receptor.

the problem is we have resistance in the receptor right now ,and so because vitamin D is like a message or communication it won't really matter how much vitamin D ,or how much communication is flowing through your bloodstream, it really matters if that communication is being received right .If you were to talk to someone who is ignoring you that has earplugs who alters what you're trying to communicate who doesn't understand what you're trying to communicate you, can have vast problems with that right well the exact same thing happens in the body with vitamin D. If the vitamin D receptor can't receive that communication you're going to be deficient regardless of how much vitamin D communication that's trying to send over through the blood .

Why is vitamin D important?

Now what's very interesting about this topic is that vitamin D receptors are located in most of your body tissue ,so they are all over the place and this is why vitamin D is so important in 

1. mineral metabolism 
2. metabolic pathways including your immune cells .You have vitamin D receptors in almost all of your immune cells ,
3. vitamin D and its receptors also involved in glucose and insulin metabolism, so if you have this defect  in the vitamin D receptor gene all sorts of things can happen you can get rickets that's a vitamin D deficiency in children where your legs are bowed and we have all sorts of skeletal malformations if  you're an adult you can get osteoporosis or like a precursor to osteoporosis which is osteopenia  
4. hair loss and I'm talking about alopecia which is an autoimmune disease that's definitely related  to this problem with the vitamin D receptor 
5. susceptibility to viruses why? because vitamin D is essential to your immune system liver inflammation vitamin D is probably one of the  most potent natural anti-inflammatories around so if you don't have enough anti-inflammatories the liver gets more inflamed it's more susceptible to inflammation and then:

•  fibrosis  
• cirrhosis 
• a fatty liver 
• insulin resistance etc 

and polymorphism is also related to the :

• autoimmune diseases 
• ms 
• lupus 
• Hashimoto's as in hypothyroidism 
• type 1 diabetes
• rheumatoid arthritis  
• insomnia 

so what can we do about this ? well if we have the receptor that's resistant to vitamin D well you can take higher amounts of vitamin D that will actually help. but there's also another thing that's very interesting about activating the vitamin D receptor ,we have the different versions of vitamin D and bile salts, bile salts can activate the vitamin D and I recommend bile salts with a lot of different conditions and that is probably . 

Why it's very effective in enhancing the vitamin D message to be able to be understood or received in  order for the vitamin D to be more receptive and do its various functions and this includes also  secondary bile salts. Let me explain what that is you have primary bile salts which are created by your liver that comes down through the bile ducts and gets stored in the gallbladder but  the secondary bile salts are made by your friendly microbes so this gives another dynamic and another area to focus on, because if you don't have all the friendly bacteria in the right amounts in order to make the secondary bile salts that could be another missing link of why you might have various health problems, so if you're struggling with any of the conditions that I mentioned you may want to take more vitamin D as well as purify bile salts.

Vitamin D supplement dose :

recommended daily dose for vitamin D :
in the united states the daily allowance recommended for vitamin D is : 600 international units per every day.And between 800 and 1000 international units per day in the europe.