Vitamin D is an essential element to our health. Whereas most people think it’s only linked to the health of our bones, the truth is that recent research has revealed that it is in fact connected to a wide variety of different systems and functions in our body. From our skin where it is stimulated into existence by ultra violet light, the vitamin goes into our blood stream where it then regulates calcium and phosphate levels in our blood, depression in our mind, and increases the health of our cardiovascular systems and hearts. Deficiency can result in serious health problems as we begin to develop problems like osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, depression, stroke, and heart disease. So where can you ensure that you get enough vitamin D so that you get your daily dose? In today’s article we take a look at two sources of vitamin D, one common and one unexpected.

The first should be obvious from the moment we say it: you can get all the vitamin D that you need from vitamin D supplements.

This is beneficial because you don’t run the risk of getting skin cancer as you do from sun exposure, nor building up mercury levels by eating too much fatty fish that might be so polluted. The other benefit is that unlike some supplements you can take your vitamin D dose all at once, instead of having to spread it out over the day. The danger here however is taking too much vitamin D, which can lead to toxicity. We need about 600 to 800 IU’s per day, but if you exceed 4,000 you can become poisoned.

The second source and one that most people don’t know about comes from egg yolks. Long the focus of a health debate which stated they were bad for us, that they damaged our health and ruined our cardiovascular systems by upping our cholesterol, eggs have since been cleared and new benefits are being discovered by the minute.  One egg should give you about 40 IU’s (as opposed to 100 IU’s from a glass of fortified milk or orange juice, or 150 IU’s from a tin of tuna).

Don’t eat too much however, since each egg contains 200 milligrams of cholesterol, which even as healthy as an egg is shouldn’t be eaten in large amounts. When consumed with other sources of vitamin D, however, one egg can be excellent.