Vitamin D has co-factors that the body needs in order to utilize vitamin D properly. They are:
- magnesium
- zinc
- vitamin K2
- boron
- a tiny amount of vitamin A
Magnesium is the most important of these co-factors. In fact, it is common for rising vitamin D levels to exacerbate an underlying magnesium deficiency. If one is having problems supplementing with vitamin D, a magnesium deficiency could be the reason why.
For more about vitamin D's cofactors, please go here.
Gary:
I would add fat and protein to this list of nutrients. These may not have been included because these are presumably assumed to be present; but this is often not the case, given the heavy emphasis on high carbohydrate, low fat diets for health (Yeah - right!).
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2 comments:
Thanks for the tip Gary. Do you have specifics of what type of fat or protein rich food that we can eat? Thanks again.
Carol
The main points are these:
- frequent small doses of fat and protein rather than lumping the lot into just one or two meals.
- Have a wide variety of fats and proteins from fish, animal, eggs, dairy and vegetable (nuts, beans, peas etc). Include a mix of the hard fats (butter, coconut oil for eg) and soft oils (flax, olive etc)
- Avoid all processed fats, and proteins including margarines and preserved meats that have nitrates and other preservatives in them.
I hope this helps.
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