Description
Vitamin D3 Vegan
Viridian Vitamin D3 vegan contributes to the maintenance of normal bones, teeth, muscle function and immune function. Vitamin D3contributes to normal absorption/utilisation of calcium and phosphorus.
- The classic vitamin D deficiency disease is rickets. Yet as fear of sun-exposure has grown and lifestyles have become more sedentary. Exposure to the sun has drop dramatically and vitamin D deficiency and the incidence of rickets has surg.
- The skin cannot create vitamin D if cover in sunscreen or clothing. It is thought that a sun cream with SPF15 will reduce the skin’s ability to synthesize vitamin D3 by more than 95%.
Furthermore, many older people and those with dark skin or those. Who tend to wear more modest clothing are amongst the population groups that are most likely to suffer sub-optimal vitamin D levels.
Dietary sources include fortified foods, eggs and fatty fish. Most commonly-available Vitamin D3 supplements are derive from the lanolin in sheep’s wool.
This supplement from Viridian Nutrition provides vegan Vitamin D naturally-derived from lichen.
Ingredients
One capsule provides:
Ingredient | Weight | %EC NRV |
---|---|---|
Vitamin D3 (400iu)
(Vegan vitamin D3 extracted from Lichen) |
10ug | |
in a base of alfalfa |