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Health Benefits of Vitamin D: You Tan Faster!

When pulling out one of my old Nursing Text books from about 20 years ago, there is not even a listing on vitamin D. A is there, so is C and lets not forget E. But no D.

Well, the frontiers of knowledge are exploding on vitamin D. In addition to helping your body boost glutathione (which helps prevent cancer) it has a dark side that most do not know about.

If you like to suntan, pay attention. You will love this. Vitamin D helps you tan faster.

But be careful. You can overdose on it and especially the synthetic kind. The second best source for vitamin D would be fish oils. Taking supplements could actually help prevent skin cancer during the tanning months and help you to tan faster.

Good health to you.

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  • dcp511

    To the point and an excellent article.

  • http://www.genovatan.com Genova

    Great article… not many people are aware of just how important Vitamin D is… finally some good news for tanners :)

  • Lori, RN

    I googled this, as it has been several years since I studied this. I have been tanning super easily this year without trying (I was told I look dark already on May 1!). I dismissed it until today, when I noticed my warm brown tan; I haven’t even been out enough to wear sunscreen yet (besides 45 min mowing lawn – twice).

    I’m fair skinned, and normally bathe in SPF 30, and still get pink until I get a decent base in June/July – then I can drop back to 15 for short periods. It occurred to me today that maybe it had to be the Vit D [or I have liver disease, hehe :) ]; and voila, here you are! I have been on 10,000 iu of compounded Vit D since last winter. I believe this is true with every bone in my body. What a perk!

  • Lee Sawyer

    Vitamin D acts just as one agent that prevents and cures diseases like rickets and osteomalacia.

    Rickets can be a popular bone disease which occurs commonly in children as a consequence of poor vitamin D intake or lack of sun exposure.

    If the same deficit occurs in adults, the trouble is called osteomalacia. This disease is very much prevalent among women over age 40.

    The cause could be due to a diet that is deficient in Vitamin N (alpha-lipoic acid) along with poor sun exposure.

    Other causes include mal-absorption syndromes, diarrhea, surgery of the digestive tract, liver and kidney diseases or using anticonvulsants such as phenytoin along with barbiturates.