What Every Parent Ought To Know About Vitamin-D For Kids…
Secrets Of The Super Healthy Revealed!
Parents, Do You Know…
- How important Vitamin-D is for your child?
- Who to trust for specific and accurate advice?
- Exactly what to buy – and, what not to buy?
There is a vast body of science showing the many health benefits of vitamin D. You may be surprised to learn the important role that vitamin D plays in your child’s health.
- Acne
- ADD/ADHD
- Asthma
- Allergies
- Bone health
- Cold/flu
- Depression
- Diabetes
- Dental cavities
- Gluten intolerance
- Infections, bacterial/viral
- Obesity
Vitamin D Helps Regulate Your Child’s Immune System?
Vitamin D3 is a potent immune system modulator. There is plenty of scientific evidence that vitamin D has several different effects on immune system function that may enhance your child’s immunity and inhibit the development of autoimmune disorders.
Good Question: Could vitamin D help my child’s allergies, asthma, eczema, food hypersensitivity issues, propensity for colds and infections?
Vitamin D Helps Regulate Your Child’s Blood Sugar?
The active form of vitamin D plays a role in insulin secretion under conditions of increased insulin demand. There is reason to suggest that insufficient vitamin D levels may have an adverse effect on insulin secretion and glucose tolerance in type 2 diabetes.
Good Question: Could vitamin D3 help regulate my child’s blood sugar and help ward off the development of diabetes?
Vitamin D Enhances Your Child’s Brain Function?
Vitamin D isn’t just good for boosting hormone levels and promoting bone health. There are actually receptors for Vitamin D in the central nervous system and in the hippocampus (memory and spatial recognition) region of the brain – and in these areas, Vitamin D not only protects neurons, but also regulates enzymes in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid that are involved in neurotransmitter synthesis and nerve growth.
One recent study investigating Vitamin D and cognitive function found that the lower the Vitamin D levels, the more negative the performance is on mental tests. Another study found that people with lower vitamin D levels have slower ability to process information.
Good Question: Could increasing vitamin D enhance my child’s brain chemistry and overall mental abilities?
The Right Kind, The Right Dose!
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Vitamin D Specifications For Kids
Type: Vitamin D3 is the only option. This is the natural form of vitamin D. Typically prescription vitamin D is in the form of vitamin D2, the synthetic version (not good). We prefer liquid vitamin D3. It is far easier to consume than pill version, especially when you need to adjust dosage for child versus adult or for maintenance versus recovery.
Dosage: The are 4 modes of thinking here (child, adult, maintenance, recovery). Maintenance versus recovery refers to maintaining optimal immune system function (not sick) versus improving a weakened or challenged immune system (being sick).
- Child (maintenance) = 2,000 i/u per day
- Child (recovery/sick) = 4,000 i/u per day
- Adult (maintenance) = 5,000 i/u per day
- Adult (recovery/sick) = 10,000 i/u per day
NOTE: There is more inaccurate and outdated information about vitamin-D on the internet today than there is good information. The guidelines above come from a large volume of personal research cross referenced with the most credible sources we know of. You can, and perhaps should, get your vitamin D levels checked. We never have. We just follow the guidelines listed above!
BREAKING NEWS
Massive Scientific Error Reported Regarding Daily Dosage
A recent investigation that went viral was Researchers at UC San Diego and Creighton University have challenged the intake of vitamin D recommended by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Institute of Medicine (IOM), stating that their Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for vitamin D underestimates the need by a factor of ten.
In a letter published in the journal Nutrients the scientists confirmed a calculation error noted by other investigators, by using a data set from a different population. Dr. Cedric F. Garland, Dr.P.H., adjunct professor at UC San Diego’s Department of Family Medicine and Public Health said his group was able to confirm findings published by Dr. Paul Veugelers from the University of Alberta School of Public Health that were reported last October in the same journal.
“Both these studies suggest that the IOM underestimated the requirement substantially,” said Garland. “The error has broad implications for public health regarding disease prevention and achieving the stated goal of ensuring that the whole population has enough vitamin D to maintain bone health.”
The recommended intake of vitamin D specified by the IOM is 600 IU/day through age 70 years, and 800 IU/day for older ages. “Calculations by us and other researchers have shown that these doses are only about one-tenth those needed to cut incidence of diseases related to vitamin D deficiency,” Garland explained.
Robert Heaney, M.D., of Creighton University wrote: “We call for the NAS-IOM and all public health authorities concerned with transmitting accurate nutritional information to the public to designate, as the RDA, a value of approximately 7,000 IU/day from all sources.”
Story Source:
The above post is reprinted from materials provided by Creighton University. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Journal References:
Paul Veugelers, John Ekwaru. A Statistical Error in the Estimation of the Recommended Dietary Allowance for Vitamin D. Nutrients, 2014; 6 (10): 4472 DOI: 10.3390/nu6104472
One Last Thing…
Stay away from the sugary, highly preserved, artificially fortified vitamin options you find in your local grocery stores. That is why we recommend LifeSource and Juice Plus. Quality is key, especially when it comes to children!
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