Vitamin D in Mushrooms is Equal With Supplement

Webpostline.com - Calcium is the essential mineral to keep bones and strong muscles. However, if you don't have the sufficient vitamin D, the calcium that you have obtained from meals or supplements is useless. Vitamin D is also essential for calcium absorption from meals into the bone.

Maintaining of vitamin D level will reduce the brittle bones risk, osteoarthritis, and osteoporosis. Naturally, our bodies will produce vitamin D when we are exposed the sunlight. Therefore, for the people who live in the winter countries or spending more time indoors, taking vitamin D from supplements is the recommendation.

Other sources show to obtain vitamin D is the mushrooms that have been dried for at least 30 minutes under the sun. This is revealed by a recent study conducted by a team of University School of Medicine from Boston. The researchers have compared the amount of vitamin D between people who ate the mushrooms that dried in the sun with people who take vitamin D supplements to 2000 units or 3000 units. All participants were given mushroom powder or vitamin supplements that should be consumed once daily for 12 weeks or during the winter. Then the researchers took blood samples to determine the metabolism of vitamin D.

The result is the mushrooms that has been dried in the sun; contains vitamin D as better as with the source of the supplement. They who ate the mushroom powder has a good vitamin D status.

Other studies have shown that the mushroom going to form the vitamin D2 in the same process as the human body when exposed to sunlight.

Benefits of vitamin D are known broadly than just maintaining of bone health, but also to prevent flu infection, strengthen the immune system and reduce the risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, depression, and diabetes. However, you should be careful to consume vitamin D, due to excessive doses associated with increased risk.