The Importance of Vitamin D And How to Keep Up Your Body’s Vitamin D
One of the most crucial needs of our body is Vitamin D. And the primary source for it is the sun. However, not all of us share the luxury to enjoy the sun or...
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USANA’s Get Up + Go Bundle
USANA Get Up + Go Bundle is gymnasts, athletes, fitness enthusiasts and sportsmen prioritized pick from around the globe. Run, jump, and utilize your bone and muscle strength at its best by supplementing your...
Vitamin D
Vitamin D supplements are a must-have when we spend most of our time indoors in air-conditioned rooms. Moreover, vitamin D deficiency is imminent in post-pregnancy. USANA’s vitamin D supplement is an advanced degree potent...
The Importance of Vitamin D After Gastric Bypass – My Bariatric Life
It is not unusual to have vitamin deficiencies following gastric bypass surgery. As a matter of fact, it is so common that patients who have had weight-loss surgery should pretty much anticipate taking vitamin...
All you need to know about your Recommended Daily Allowance
We’re constantly bombarded with the acronym RDA but do we actually know what it means, and how it should be affecting our diets? Our Recommended Daily Allows refers to the amount of each nutrient...
Vitamin D Supplements
According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) the majority of US citizens have an acceptable level of vitamin D within their blood levels. This was rated at 20 nanograms per milliliter. Even so, there...
Low Vitamin D: A Global Concern
Recent studies suggest that vitamin D is much more important in fighting off disease than previously thought. Being deficient in this vitamin puts one at risk of diseases such as cancer, osteoporosis, and multiple...
Vitamin D Deficiency: How to Avoid It
During the winter, it’s easy to hide out indoors, but staying inside could have a huge impact on your health. A little sun gives you more than you know. Sunshine … most of the...
Low vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 levels
Low vitamin D3 levels Within the last decade, in addition to its protective attributes for bones, vitamin D3 has also been recognized as a key protector against heart disease. A study from 2004 showed...
Vitamin D Treatment – Disease, Disorders, and Special Conditions
Once you are diagnosed with cancer, does it help to take vitamin D supplements? We don’t know whether increasing vitamis D once a diagnosis of cancer is made provides any benefit in reducing the...
The Role of Calcium in Their Everyday Function
Calcium is required for skeletal and cardiac muscle contraction, blood-vessel expansion and contraction, secretion of hormones and enzymes, and transmission of impulses through the nervous system. The body strives to maintain constant concentrations of...
Blood Sugar and Metabolic Syndrome
High blood pressure. High blood sugar. Unhealthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Excess abdominal (belly) fat. If you were to look into a crowd of Americans, say, at a football game or large concert, and...
Vitamin D Deficiency – Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s disease is a serious, debilitating health condition that causes stiffness, tremors, and lowness of movement due to inadequate levels of dopamine in the brain. In a 2008 study, researchers at the Emory University...
Vitamin D Deficiencies – Osteoporosis and Others
Osteoporosis Vitamin D deficiency can contribute to the development of osteoporosis. A 2006 multinational study of 2,600 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis found that 64 percent of the participants had insufficient blood levels of vitamin...