by Miguel Rodriguez | Nov 22, 2020
As with all nutrients, our bodies need vitamin D from the environment (through food or sunlight in this case) to function properly. Vitamin D has a particularly important role in bone health by helping with calcium absorption. This is a very clear relationship as its...
by Miguel Rodriguez | Nov 22, 2020
Vitamin D3 is the primary raw material to make active and usable vitamin D. It is produced when the body is exposed to sunlight (ultraviolet B radiation sunlight). Our bodies are amazingly efficient when it comes to producing vitamin D3; brief sunlight exposure of the...
by Miguel Rodriguez | Nov 22, 2020
It depends! At OmegaQuant we recommend aiming for a Vitamin D blood level >30 ng/mL, but that can be achieved in several ways. Some people may be able to reach this level through exposure to the sun, while some may achieve it through a high-fish diet and fortified...
by Miguel Rodriguez | Nov 22, 2020
There is not yet an agreed upon “optimal” Vitamin D level in the scientific community. This mostly comes from a disagreement on “deficiency” (Taylor C, et al. 2018) vs “optimal” blood levels (Holick MF. 2017) and what endpoint is being considered, i.e. bone health vs....
by Miguel Rodriguez | Nov 22, 2020
You can take a Vitamin D test at any time. This test is a long-term stable view of your Vitamin D intake and will not be affected by any short-term dietary or supplementary changes. A test will simply tell you if your diet is delivering enough Vitamin D to maintain an...
