Vitamin D

Written By Tiffany Scruggs

There are so many good things to say about Vitamin D and the benefits to your overall health. Did you know that Vitamin D is actually a hormone that affects over 3,000 cell processes within your body? No joke! It also helps rid the body of intruders, it fights disease and repairs cells.

Vitamin D can:

  • Increase Immunity

  • Decrease pain and fibromyalgia

  • Decrease depression and create better function neurotransmitter, dopamine and norepinephrine

  • Decrease cancers

  • Decrease fatigue

  • Decrease hair loss

  • Decrease Osteopenia/Osteoporosis

  • Decrease dementia

  • Decrease erectile dysfunction

  • Decrease high blood pressure

  • Decrease sever cases of heart disease

  • Decrease Schizophrenia

Testing vitamin D levels is done through blood work, just ask your doctor to test your levels. It helps to know where you’re at to supplement properly. Normal recommended levels are, 40-60ng/ml, for good health. I have found first time outdoor sun lovers are surprised to be low, 19-25ng/ml. Co-nutrient helpers work together for processing Vitamin D for optimal health. They include:

  • Magnesium

  • Vitamin K

  • Boron

  • Zinc

  • Fatty absorption

I have found that there are also inhibitors which will decrease and block Vitamin D and make it difficult for absorption.

  • High intake of Vitamin A or retinyl palmitate (not beta carotene)

  • Statins

  • Prednisone

  • Weight-loss

  • Smoking

  • Obesity

  • Digestive & gut conditions: IBS, Crohn’s, Leaky gut

  • Diseases of the liver, pancreases, or having your gallbladder removed

  • Increased age

  • Food Sources that contain Vitamin D include: fish, meat, eggs, fortified milk, dairy and others.

Sun Exposure UVB, there are many factors to consider because with some, the sun works well but not with everyone. For example: before supplementing Vitamin D, I would get lots of sun, eat healthy and had not health conditions except high stress but my level was 29ng/ml.

Here are the Vitamin D takeaways:


  1. Take with a meal

  2. Take with fat (I take with my Omega 3 and probiotic before bed)

  3. Take 5,000 Vitamin D3 with K2

  4. Take Omega 3

  5. Take Magnesium

  6. Have your Vitamin D level tested (ask your doctor for a blood test or you can order an at-home test here.)

  7. 40-60 ng/ml is healthy range

Tiffany Scruggs https://www.tiffanyscruggswellness.com
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