Optimize your health & vitality with vitamin D

Nature on the prairies is perfect, that is, if you are a migrating bird or butterfly, a burrowing insect or a microbe thriving underground! But what about us? How will we stay healthy over the long, dark, cold winter months and worse yet, cold and flu season?

It’s hard not to notice our Manitoba landscape morph from the bril-liant gemstone hues of summer to the harvest yellows, fiery crim-sons and bright oranges of autumn! The leaves, along with over ripe crab apples, berries and other natural fodder, provide the perfect cocktail of nutrition for our life giving soil and ideal homes for the wild critters. In contrast, the end of summer brings less of summer’s ultimate gift to us: exposure to the healing properties of sunlight! For those of us who live in these northern latitudes, that means a sharp deficit in vitamin D and the resulting health impacts!

Vitamin D is an essential element for our bodies. Twenty minutes of direct exposure to the glorious sunshine of summer can amply provide our body with vitamin D3. It’s actually made by our human skin when we’re in the sunlight. This delightful bonus to our prairie summer can’t happen the same way in winter months since the vita-min is absorbed through our skin (and eyes) and it doesn’t penetrate glass.

Foods such as fish, eggs, fortified milk and cod liver oil contain vita-min D2, but unfortunately, our bodies may not optimally absorb and utilize D2 in the same way as D3.

Vitamin D plays many important roles in our bodies including the ability to absorb calcium. This may be one reason why many people often remark that they “feel much better in the summertime.”

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Vitamin D helps protect the body in areas that include:

•Assisting our body in the absorption calcium to improve bone health

•Protecting against osteoporosis, high blood pressure, and cancer

•Helps maintain normal blood levels of calcium and phosphorus.1

In most people, besides rickets and osteomalacia, did you know that a deficiency of vitamin D can cause a number of prevalent but lesser known health issues? These include:

Depression: The feelings of depression increases when a person’s vitamin D levels drop. In fact, The New England Journal of Medicine and the Vitamin D Council have found a link that indicates the lower the vitamin D level, the greater the chance of depression.2 Vitamin D has direct affects on mood because it activates the genes that release dopamine and serotonin.

Bone issues: Our bodies can’t absorb calcium without vitamin D so it makes sense that bone issues would ensue if the vitamin wasn’t present in sufficient amounts. This includes the risk of falls, bone loss, dental issues and bone density in children.

Hormonal imbalance: Do you feel sexier in the summer? There’s a reason for that. Vitamin D deficiency can cause low estrogen in women. Low estrogen can lead to low sex drive in women and low testosterone in men. Mood is also affected by the decrease in this ‘hot’ vitamin, as well as a lower cognitive ability, and an increase in anxiety and irritability.

According to Rocky Mountain Analytical, vitamin D is a secosteroid molecule. With a similar in structure to steroid hormones, they basi-cally regulate over 200 genes. Therefore, deficiencies would have a disasterous impact on human health.

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Besides these and other obvious health issues, researchers are studying a link between vitamin D and pain relief.

“I take a lot of vitamin D after a surgery or when I feel bone pain. I’ve had a lot of surgeries in my lifetime, and the drugs don’t help the pain because my body is used to them but the Vitamin D definitely takes the edge off,” said Kristianna H., 26, a gifted motivational speaker, and multiple amputee.

Kristianna has experienced numerous bone surgeries since contracting bacterial meningitis and consequential multiple amputations from the age of six months old. She’s been on a plethora of narcotic pain medications that leave her feeling ill and with serious withdrawal symptoms until she discovered vitamin D3 and homeopathic treat-ment.

Besides the lack of sunlight and surgery, there are a number of diseases that reduce the body’s ability to absorb and store vitamin D3, that include Celiac disease, Crohns disease and bypass surgery. The important thing to remember about vitamin D3, like most supplements, is to make sure you’re taking the right ones. This includes adequate dosages and high quality products, in order to have the desired results.

Dr. Kumar Balgaumkar (Dr. Kumar), Homeopathic Practi-tioner at The Winnipeg Homeopathic Clinic, carries a top quality, liquid form of vitamin D3 that he has imported from Belgium. Dr. Kumar can have vitamin D3 levels tested to provide the optimum dosage for your body and health needs. The Homeopathic Clinic carries a full line of homeopathic remedies to address all of your health con-cerns. To book an appointment with Dr. Kumar, please call: (204)284-7778 or email: drkumarb@shaw.ca or arrange it online at: www.drkumarhomeopathy.com/

1 www.mayoclinic.org

2 www.psychologytoday.com

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Just like people, pets can greatly benefit from Homeopathic treatment for maladies that include: safe recovery from an illness, parasites, rashes, first aide treatment, and for overall optimal health. For the most part, animal systems are less complicated that a human, and seeing recovery results from an injury or illness can be fast and inexpensive. For example, Dr. Kumar may prescribe remedies that include bellodonna for a quick and effective recovery for a dog suffering with an ear infection. Pet health will be a regular feature in these newsletters so feel free to check back for more pet health information, testimonials and tips to keep your furry family member healthy and happy!