Lack of vitamin D

Let's understand with the participation of vitamin D in the vital activity of bone tissue. Vitamin D serves as a "conductor" of phosphorus and calcium: it allows the intestines to suck them, transfer them to the bone tissue and promote their assimilation and deposition. And now think only on this example, what threatens the lack of vitamin D.

Symptoms

There are a lot of symptoms of vitamin D deficiency - from the well-known "beriberi", to especially individual:

• burning in the mouth;
• headaches and dizziness;
• weakness;
• loss of appetite;
• disorders in the work of the digestive tract;
• convulsions;
• slowing of breathing.

Now there are diseases that will disturb with a lack of vitamin D.

1. Bad coagulability of blood.
2. High blood pressure.
3. Renal failure.
4. Oncological diseases - pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, uterine cancer, etc.
5. Osteoporosis.
6. Children - rickets, as well as slowing growth and development.

Vitamin depot

The highest content of vitamin D in the northern hemisphere is observed in September. All, one way or another, received a certain dose of vitamin D by synthesizing the solar ultraviolet during the holidays and vacations. Vitamin D has the property of accumulating and what we generated, on average, is enough until February. Then it's time to start thinking about how to fill the lack of vitamin D.

We are struggling with a deficit

If you do not take into account the sun, which we are missing most of the year, we still have a version with ultraviolet lamps or food.

Most of all vitamin D in fish living in cold seas:

• liver cod - 50 mcg;
• herring - 25 mcg;
• salmon - 12 mcg;
• mackerel - 30 mcg.

And in the unloved Soviet children fish oil - as much as 242 mkg per 100 grams! The daily requirement is 5 - 10 mcg.

In addition, vitamin D is in milk, avocado, butter nuts, egg yolks.

During lactation, women with milk give the children the necessary dose of vitamin D, thereby lowering their vitamin depot. Therefore, at the first signs of a lack of vitamin D, you should enrich your diet with marine fish, or contact your doctor with a request to prescribe vitamin supplements.

Vitamin D and motor activity

American scientists have revealed an interesting pattern. Elderly people with a lack of vitamin D , most often lose their motor ability and are in a group at increased risk of developing fatal diseases. The reason is that a deficiency of calciferol leads to a deterioration in nutrition of bone and muscle tissue.