Vitamin D3

As you might be reading up on vitamins you might come across several different names and terms and maybe also with this one you wonder: “what is vitamin d3?”

Vitamin D3 is a form of vitamin d which is also called cholecalciferol. Vitamin d3 is a colorless crystalline compound. It has essentially the same biological reactions and activities in the human body as vitamin d2. Vitam in d3 is the most used vitamin to treat vitamin d deficiencies. Vitamin d3 benefits for the body are just like the other forms of vitamin d. It is important for the absorption og calcium from the stomach and intestinal tract and also for the proper functioning of calcium in the body. The synthesis of vitamin d3 can be suppressed by using sunscreen, since the synthesis of all vitamin d3 is also depentend on sun penetrating the skin.

Here are some interesing fatcs about vitamin d3. Usually cholecalciferol is the form of vitamin d2 added to fortified foods. In lots of countries margarine products is fortifeid that way to make it more nutritional and more like butter. Vitamin d3 is most often measured using colorimetry and hplc (High Performance Liquid Chromatography).

Newer research and studies on vitamin d3 have shown that vitamin d3 provides the skin with protection from harmful microbes. These vitamin d3 studies show that vitamin d3 controls the body's immune system response and therefore affects the skin's ability to heal wounds.

Therefore vitamin d3 supplements and also vitamin d3 cream can be used to treat wounds and a faster healing process can be expected.

The vitamin d3 fact sheet or also often called vitamin list gives information about functions, forms, sources, overdoses and deficiencies of vitamin d3 and other vitamins.

Symptoms of a cholecalciferol overdose include irregular heartbeats, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, decreased appetite, constipation, weakness, headache, and a metallic taste in the mouth.

Because often mention together with vitamin d3, the question arises, is fish oil vitamin d3 or is vitamin d3 in fish oil? Neither one of those two statements is completely correct.

Vitamin d3 supplements are often sold with fish oil for the reason that vitamin d3 is a fat soluble vitamin and if entering the body with fats together easier digestible and easier to synthesize for the human body.

The maximum vitamin d3 intake recommended lies at 2000IU (international unit).

Some people say that lacking vitamin d3 makes you sleepy, but there really is not any direct relationship between sleep and vitamin d3.