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Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:36 - 0 Comments

Vitamin D: The Most Important Vitamin Supplement for Disease Prevention

Vitamin D should be considered a super vitamin. Research findings over the last few years have put this inexpensive nutritional supplement in the superstar spotlight. Taking vitamin D, a very safe vitamin supplement, can dramatically reduce your chances of getting a major disease and or chronic health condition.

It was only a few years ago that scientists finally figured out why we tend to come down with colds and flu’s more often in the winter than at any other time of the year. They found out that our blood levels of vitamin D drop in the winter as a result of less exposure to sunlight.

Researchers also found out that vitamin D plays an extremely critical role in the immune system and that the incidence of disease prevalence increased the farther north one lived. Those findings led to increased studies and the realization that the value of vitamin D in disease prevention cannot be underestimated. Continue…