What you never knew you didn't know about getting all the vitamin D you need.
Plot twist, the sunshine goddess is a vitamin and a hormone.
Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin that works like a hormone. It’s CRUCIAL to our bodies. Literally every single cell has a receptor for Vitamin D. Every. Single. Cell.
Vitamin D is so crucial to our survival that our bodies have developed a way to synthesize it themselves—through the sun.
In order to synthesize it our bodies need plenty of cholesterol. Dietary cholesterol comes from saturated fats from animal foods, the rest your body makes itself.
Foods that are high in vitamin D are:
cod liver oil*
*be careful with this one, most are highly oxidized before they reach the consumer.
I like Rosita brand
pastured organic egg yolks
caviar
cheese
livers
lard
raw butter
salmon
sardines and herring
tuna fish
wild mushrooms
*not technically plants, they’re a class all their own
raw milk and raw cream
These same foods are great sources of saturated fat and dietary cholesterol. Vitamin absorption is largely determined by the cholesterol and saturated fats you get from your diet. If you’re not eating cholesterol rich foods you’re most likely not absorbing your vitamins. Anyone who tells you that you can get adequate vitamin D from plants sources is full of it. Fortified foods are NOT the same as whole foods that are full of naturally occurring nutrients. Your body always does it’s best work with the tools you give it, but it’s your responsibility to feed it foods that it can translate into nourishment.
Our bodies are survivalists. They will do everything they can to scrape the nutrients out of anything you put in them, or to simply detox from whatever you’re putting in them. If all of it’s energy is focused on detoxing from the junk you dump into it then it will have less energy to use the real stuff you give it, and it will be bogged down by spending extra energy on detoxing and last minute protections.
An example of this with regards to vitamin D is that in the absence of vitamin D, 10-15% of dietary calcium and 60% of phosphorous is able to be absorbed; with vitamin D this absorption increases to 30-40% for calcium and 80% for phosphorous.
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