Vitamin D

Vitamin D, like all vitamins, should be delivered to the body in the right quantities to ensure its proper functioning. As one of the few vitamins, it can be synthesized in the human body - in the skin under the influence of solar radiation. It performs many important functions in the body, among others for strong and healthy bones. Recently, there is also a lot of talk about its role in supporting the immune system and preventing viral infections. However, it is a component of a diet that is difficult to provide with food, which makes many people suffer from deficiencies, and nutritional recommendations regarding the demand for it are strictly defined, but impossible to realize for most of the society. So how do you take care of providing it with the correct amount?

Abstract

• Vitamin D can be synthesized in the skin under the influence of sunlight, but for most of the year these are insufficient. For this reason, it is particularly necessary to pay attention to its amounts taken together with the diet or in the form of supplements.
• The role of vitamin D in the body is to take care of proper bone mineralization and support the immune system, which causes a lower risk of infection and diseases.
• One portion of Supersonic Food Powder Plus covers the daily demand for vitamin D for an adult.

The demand for vitamin D and its sources

The daily demand for vitamin D for adults is 15 µg. It can be delivered in 3 ways: as a result of synthesis in the skin, with food and in the form of supplements.

Vitamin D in the skin arises as a result of transformation of cholesterol derivative into a physiologically active form of vitamin. The human body is able to synthesize its amounts sufficient for health, but only in the summer months, with proper sunlight and when a minimum of 18% of the skin is discovered, without the use of creams with protective filters. In practice, this means that for most of the year in a Polish climate it is impossible to create in the body the amount of vitamin D sufficient to cover the daily demand (1).

The second way to deliver vitamin D to the body is to provide its sources in the diet. However, it occurs in few products and its consumption on a scale of population is insufficient. Good sources of vitamin D are fatty fish and eggs, in addition to milk and its products and mushrooms provide some of it (1, 2).

The third source of vitamin D are dietary supplements. Supplementation is recommended due to insufficient synthesis in the skin and insufficient consumption of vitamin D with food. However, due to the occurrence of many factors affecting the bioavailability of vitamin D, people supplementing it may suffer from deficiencies (3, 4).

According to research, vitamin D is better absorbed from food than from dietary supplements, which is caused, among others, with the form in which it occurs and other food ingredients that improve its absorption. As vitamin D is soluble in fat, the consumption of foods containing fats (in particular unsaturated fatty acids) improves its absorption, as well as the presence of vitamins A, E and C as well as calcium and phosphorus (5).

Vitamin D functions

Vitamin D in the body regulates calcium and phosphorus management, so it is responsible for bone mineralization. Its deficiency in children leads to the formation of rickets, and in adults to osteoporosis (1). Recently, there has been more and more talk about the importance of vitamin D in building immunity and preventing autoimmune diseases. It promotes the production of more immune cells (T and B lymphocytes, dendritic cells and macrophages) and reduces the level of molecules that have pro -inflammatory effects (6). Strengthens the body's natural physiological barriers, among others mucous membranes, thanks to which it prevents the penetration of pathogens, bacteria and viruses into the body. In addition, it has been shown that low levels of vitamin D in the body increases the risk of, among others, cancer and autoimmune diseases (asthma, type 1 diabetes, Hashimoto and civilization (obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension) (7).

Vitamin D and resistance

In connection with the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, a study was conducted in which the relationship was examined between the amount of vitamin D in the body and the risk of getting sick, as well as the course of the disease and mortality. Preliminary research has shown, low supply of the body with vitamin D may increase the risk of coronavirus infection. Vitamin D is responsible, among others, for the production of defense and Catylicine in the body, which reduce the virus's ability to multiply. In addition, they reduce the amount of pro -inflammatory molecules that, by causing inflammation, can damage the lung tissue. Assessions regarding the impact of vitamin D deficiencies on the risk of coronavirus infection are also based on the fact that an analogous correlation has been demonstrated in the case of infections with other viral diseases, e.g. flu virus, HIV and HCV (8).

Vitamin D at Supersonic Food Powder Plus

Supersonic Food Powder Plus contains all the vitamin and minerals necessary for health, including vitamin D, in its most absorbable form for the body - vitamin D3, i.e. cholecalciferol, whose bioavailability is up to 99% (5, 9). The increase in its bioavailability is also affected by other ingredients present in Supersonic Food Powder Plus, including vitamins A and E and calcium. Vitamin D is added to the supersonic liquid, thanks to which it is dissolved in the estras of unsaturated fatty acids, which also increases its absorption (5). Its content in one portion of SuperSonic Food is 15 µg, which is 100% covered by the daily demand for an adult (1, 10). Eating one portion of Supersonic Food Powder Plus a day helps maintain an appropriate level of vitamin D in the body.

Summary

Vitamin D is one of the most important vitamins, which has a lot of important functions in the body, among others, it is responsible for proper bone mineralization, has immunostimulating and prevents numerous diseases and diseases. Due to the fact that in our climate it is impossible to effectively synthesize it in the skin under the influence of sunlight, and few foods provide it with the right quantities, in addition to supplementation, it is important to include fortified products in the diet, i.e. enriched with vitamin D. One of such products is the SuperSonic Food Powder Plus, one portion of which one portion covers her daily demand for this vitamin and provides it with this vitamin and provides it with this vitamin and provides it in the most absorbable form.

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