Make vitamins yourself?

Make vitamins yourself? When vitamin D supplementation can be useful
Do it Yourself! That's what vitamin D can do. People make it into the skin when exposed to UVB radiation. Only this self-synthesis depends on the geographical location, the season, the age and the way of life.

Instead of vitamin pills, eat better natural peppers. Image: Malyshchyts Viktar - fotolia

Not everyone produces enough vitamin D or ingests enough from the diet.
At the 7th Lower Saxony Forum on Consumer Health Protection in Oldenburg, Professor Armin Zittermann from the Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, if and for whom the intake of vitamin D as a nutritional supplement can be worthwhile. "The low daily dose brings the most," said Zittermann, but limited this: "for a sufficiently supplied there is little effect." Those who have a vitamin D deficit and slowly reduce it will benefit most. Single doses of high doses can even have negative effects.

Central Europe is so far north that its own synthesis via the skin is only possible to a very limited extent, especially in winter. Also the supply via the food is insufficient. Especially in winter, therefore, the recommended blood levels are not reached by many.

Special risk groups are groups of people who are not very likely to spend the summer in the summer, such as residents of nursing homes. One of the things that regulates vitamin D in the body is bone formation. Good vitamin D supply, for example, reduces the risk of falls and broken bones in old age. Vitamin D remains vital for life and can be useful as a nutritional supplement in certain cases. Ask your nutritionist or your nutritionist. Regina Bartel, bzfe