Vitamin D May Save Your Heart

Vitamin D acts as a potent hormone-like regulator of genes throughout your body.  Numerous reports on vitamin D in the past few years have solidified its benefits for bones, immunity, and many types of cancer.  New animal research shows for the first time that vitamin D can prevent changes in your heart that lead to heart failure¹.

When your heart becomes stressed and has to work harder it becomes enlarged and begins to struggle and work inefficiently.  Under controlled conditions scientist were able to show that vitamin D stopped the inappropriate enlargement of the heart while maintaining heart function and efficiency.  There is a reason more heart attacks happen in the winter – its called vitamin D deficiency.  Any person over 40 should get at least 2000 units of vitamin D3 per day during the winter months.

The sun-paranoid American Cancer Society better get over it.  I’m no advocate of burning, but I am an advocate of sunshine.  Be sure to get your daily dose!  Magically, you will feel better.