New evidence presented to the American Heart Association suggests that vitamin D deficiencies can triple a woman’s risk of high blood pressure during and after menopause.
A myriad of research has been devoted to the boundless benefits of nature’s little super-hormone, vitamin D. Despite mounting evidence surrounding the value of vitamin D, it’s estimated that 30 percent of children and 50 percent of adults are technically vitamin D deficient. According to the Mayo Clinic, vitamin D is chiefly responsible for the stabilization of calcium and phosphorus levels within the blood, and may protect against osteoporosis, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer and a variety of autoimmune diseases.
Researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health conducted a study that included 559 white women, between the ages 24 and 44 when the study initially began, back in 1992. The women’s vitamin D levels were measured once a year, for the next 15 years. The study concluded that although it’s difficult to pinpoint a “direct” correlation between vitamin D deficiencies and high blood pressure, this is a classic paradigm of how what you do early in life affects your long-term health.
How to get your daily dose:
The highly trained bioidentical hormone doctors at BodyLogicMD recommend that most adults get anywhere between 800 to 1,000 IU of vitamin D each day; however, a variety of factors dictate how much vitamin D we need. Also, it’s important to remember that vitamin D plays the role of a prohormone, meaning that it aids in the production and stabilization of other hormones throughout the body. When vitamin D levels are sorely deficient, subsequent hormonal imbalances are likely. The bioidentical hormones experts at BodyLogicMD specialize in helping women and men achieve optimal health through customized nutrition, fitness and supplementation regimens that meet the individual needs of each patient.
