11/11/2021
⚠️ Note !
📑Vitamin D is essential to our bodies.
📑We can't make it, so we have to get it in our diet, or get outside and have the sun make it for us (yep, sunlight on our skin causes our skin to make Vitamin D).
📑Vitamin D has several roles in our bodies, but its main role is to help us keep our calcium levels up.
📑It helps our intestine to absorb calcium from the foods we eat, thus increasing the amount of calcium in our bodies.
📑If our Vitamin D levels are low, then our intestines have a hard time absorbing calcium.
📑This is why milk is fortified with Vitamin D. Did you ever notice that the milk you buy has "Vitamin D Fortified" written on it.
📑We want our kids to drink milk so they get lots of calcium to build their bones strong... but without the Vitamin D, most of the calcium in the milk won't get absorbed.
📑Our intestines MUST have at least a little Vitamin D to absorb calcium.
📑Most of the calcium supplements out there (Citracal, Oscal, Caltrate, etc) will have Vitamin D added to the calcium pills, because our intestines need the Vitamin D molecule to absorb calcium through the intestinal wall and transport it into our blood.
📑Again.... Vitamin D's most important role is to help our intestine absorb calcium.