{"id":5767,"date":"2023-01-04T22:37:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T21:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dr-trotta.fr\/what-are-the-benefits-of-vitamin-d\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T17:45:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:45:50","slug":"what-are-the-benefits-of-vitamin-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-trotta.fr\/en\/what-are-the-benefits-of-vitamin-d\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the benefits of Vitamin D?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>What is a vitamin?  <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>The term vitamin comes from the Latin<em>&#8220;vita<\/em>&#8220;: life, and<em>&#8220;amine<\/em>&#8220;: an organic compound. Vitamins are biological substances essential to life, which the body cannot synthesize. It must therefore be supplied to the body externally.    <\/p>\n\n<p>There are 13 types of vitamin that play an essential role in our bodies: the B vitamins (B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B8, B9, B12), vitamin C, and vitamins A, D, E and K.<\/p>\n\n<p><em><strong>What is vitamin D used for?  <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Vitamin D is mainly used to :  <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>enrich your skeleton and teeth in minerals<\/strong> (calcium and phosphorus). It is the essential mineralizing vitamin.   <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>protect your intestinal mucosa<\/strong> from pathogenic bacteria: by the secretion of antimicrobial lysosymes by the paneth cells, located at the bottom of the intestinal crypts. Oral vitamin D thus helps keep the intestinal mucosa selectively impermeable.   <br\/>Vitamin D also strengthens the tight junctions between intestinal cells (enterocytes). By preventing and treating intestinal hyperpermeability, vitamin D thus has a preventive and curative action on the cause of modern diseases (autoimmune, degenerative).   <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Stimulate your immune system<\/strong>: vitamin D has a strong antiviral action. Faced with a viral infection, macrophages produce vitamin D receptors. If your vitamin D reserves are sufficient, it binds to macrophages, which then produce defensins and cathelicidins that destroy the viruses at the root of the infection.   <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Vitamin D has an anti-inflammatory action<\/strong>: it lowers pro-inflammatory cytokines and increases anti-inflammatory cytokines.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Vitamin D reduces the incidence<\/strong> (risk)<strong> of cancer,<\/strong> particularly colon and breast cancer.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dr-trotta.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/thelia\/upload\/ALIMENTS\/Vit D saumon.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:412px;height:345px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>What foods are rich in vitamin D?  <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Vitamin D is found mainly in fish: sardines, mackerel, cod liver oil, trout, swordfish, salmon.<\/p>\n\n<p>It is also found in eggs, dark chocolate and mushrooms.  <\/p>\n\n<p><em><strong>Why are we vitamin D deficient?  <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Without realizing it, a considerable number of people are vitamin D deficient, since most foods are low in vitamin D, and few people eat foods containing it on a daily basis (sardines, mackerel, cod liver oil, etc.).  <\/p>\n\n<p>Vitamin D is also synthesized by the action of sunlight captured by our skin. However, we are only exposed to these rays for 2 to 3 months a year, which explains why we are often vitamin D deficient during the autumn and winter seasons.   <\/p>\n\n<p>According to the French Academy of Medicine, 80% of French people are vitamin D deficient. Since 2012, it has therefore been recommending a daily intake of 800 to 1000 international units (IU).  <\/p>\n\n<p>The most vitamin D-deficient people are :  <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the elderly: the aged skin of people over 70 synthesizes four times less vitamin D than that of younger people;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>pregnant and breast-feeding women,  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>people who are sedentary or work indoors, with little exposure to the sun;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>people living in northern or less sunny regions;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>most Westerners in winter (due to reduced UVB radiation) and air pollution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Vitamin D supplementation, particularly in autumn and winter, can be particularly beneficial. Laboratoire Nutritional Dr Trotta offers you a dietary supplement for everyday use: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.dr-trotta.com\/nouveautes-2023\/os-immunite-vit-d3-docta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">D3-DOCTA<\/a>, easily assimilated and bioavailable vitamin D. <\/p>\n\n<p>One 10 mg capsule of <a href=\"https:\/\/app.dr-trotta.com\/labo\/os-immunite-vitamine-d3-docta\">D3-DOCTA <\/a> provides 1000 IU of Vitamin D, which is the reasonably recommended daily dose (500% of RDA). This dose is a fair balance between the official RDA of 200 IU and the massive single-dose quarterly ampoule of 200,000 IU, which is excessive. In other words, it&#8217;s better to take a sufficient daily dose (1000 IU\/d).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D3 Docta, Dr Trotta&#8217;s new natural vitamin D supplement. To boost your immunity in autumn and winter and strengthen brittle bones (fractures, osteoporosis). Indispensable in chronic illnesses to balance the immune system.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,453,465,401,388,395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice","category-infection-and-allergies","category-covid19-en","category-rheumatology","category-power-supply","category-cancer-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-trotta.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-trotta.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-trotta.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-trotta.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-trotta.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-trotta.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5771,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-trotta.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions\/5771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-trotta.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-trotta.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-trotta.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-trotta.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}