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5 vitamin D thieves and how to protect yourself (slideshow)
5. Your gut health
If you’re getting your vitamin D from food or a supplement, poor gut health can prevent you from absorbing it efficiently. Stomach juices, pancreatic secretions, bile from the liver and intestinal health all influence what your body does with the vitamins you put into it. When these things are out of whack, you can ingest as much vitamins as you want, but your body won’t be able to use most of them.
A prime example of this phenomenon is people with gut and digestive disorders like celiac disease, chronic pancreatitis, irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s disease, who have incredibly poor vitamin D absorption.
To improve your gut health and your vitamin D absorption, you should get your daily dose of probiotics (which can also protect you from effects of BPA exposure) through food and a supplement.
