Vegan Vitamin D
Or 100% Guilt Free
Animal Source

If you need to take Vitamin D Supplements, really Vegan Vitamin D is not your best choice- but in a few minutes, you will find out about a 100% guaranteed to be acceptable to all vegans, animal source of Vitamin D...

When you understand the Vitamin D Facts, you will understand that:

Your Vitamin D Requirements are MUCH higher than you think
AND
Vitamin d is NOT a vitamin at all, but a hormone

When vitamin d was first discovered, it was THOUGHT to be a vitamin, but it was later found to actually be a hormone. But the name 'vitamin d' stuck and we still call it a vitamin 100 years later. When you are looking at getting vitamin d supplements, it is important to know this distinction of Vitamin D as a hormone. This is because there is a difference between 'Bioidentical' and non- bioidentical hormones. Unfortunately, Vegan Vitamin D from SUPPLEMENTS is NOT bio-identical- and the subject has been researched very well.

Vegan vitamin d is made from mushrooms exposed to ultraviolet light. And mushrooms, just like us, can make vitamin d when they are exposed to sunlight, which is ultraviolet light. This vegan vitamin d collected from mushrooms goes by two different names:

Vitamin D2
Ergocalciferol

And the vitamin d that is sourced from animals (including us) is called:

Vitamin D3
Cholecalciferol

The studies done comparing vegan vitamin d to animal sourced vitamin d are summarized in a paper called The Case Against Ergocalciferol. This paper discusses more than you ever wanted to know about the difference between Vitamin D2 and Vitamin D3, and I've already discussed the major differences on the Vitamin D3 page. But what I haven't discussed is the REASON for the major advantage of animal sourced vitamin d- and that difference is how BIOIDENTICAL the D3 HORMONE is to our bodies.

OUR bodies make vitamin d3 from the sun when it is exposed to sunlight and the only other good source of vitamin d in nature comes from fatty fish, which also contain vitamin d3.

And mushrooms, which make D2, must be sun dried in order to make vitamin d- and they only make Vitamin D2. So, the ONLY vegetable source of Vitamin D is NOT bioidentical, and eating sun-dried mushrooms is not generally an everyday occurrence for the vast majority of people anyway.

And getting bioidentical hormones is IMPERATIVE. We have LOTS of examples of NON bioidentical hormones in the drug world and they nearly ALWAYS cause problems. But Vitamin D2 is not JUST not 'bioidentical', it also is more toxic, has a shorter duration of action and does not act on your genes the way that vitamin d is supposed to act. In fact, by taking Vegan Vitamin D, you may not be getting the benefits from vitamin d that you are taking vitamin d for in the first place!

Why Vegans Need Vitamin D

We have been brainwashed to believe that we get all the nutrients that we need in our food. While vegans are likely to do a better job at meeting their needs through food, there are two nutrients that you are just NOT going to get in adequate amounts from a vegan diet:

Vitamin B12
Vitamin D

While you can (potentially) argue about getting enough Vitamin B12 if you consistently eat Chlorella, unless you eat close to a pound of sun-dried mushrooms that contain vegan vitamin d every day, then you are NOT meeting the surprisingly high Vitamin D Requirements from your vegan diet. The only other way that you could POSSIBLY get enough vitamin d is through the sun. But most people are afraid of the sun from years of being told that you will get skin cancer, so most people cover up, wear sunscreen and stay inside on most days anyway.

 

 

Breast Cancer and Vitamin D

Multiple Sclerosis and Vitamin D

Diabetes

Fibromyalgia and Vitamin D

Heart Disease and Vitamin D

Most people who become vegans for health reasons don't continue to smoke cigarettes and claim that their vegan diet will protect them from the detrimental effects of the cigarettes. Well, if you ignore your Vitamin D Levels, then in essence that is what you are doing; you are choosing to ignore a powerful protection in the fight against many diseases- and breast cancer in particular. Why would you want to do that?

I recommend that EVERYONE, not JUST vegans, get their vitamin d levels checked. In part because keeping your vitamin d levels at OPTIMUM provides the best protection against disease, and in part because it's likely that you will be SHOCKED at how incredibly vitamin D deficient you are- and then you will believe me when I tell you that you will almost positively need to take extreme actions to get your Vitamin D Levels up to normal.

Sources of Supplements

Since now you are convinced that you need supplements, when it comes to getting vitamin d3, they are made from one of two different animal sources. Either:

Fatty Fish
OR
Ultraviolet Light Exposed Sheep's Wool

So, even though the wool source is not truly 'vegan', no animals are killed in order to provide you with your vitamin d supplements! For those of you who do not have an objection to wool products, then vitamin d made from irradiated sheep's wool (lanolin) is a good choice. But you will have to call the company that makes the supplements to find out how they make their supplements.

Liquid vitamin d products are your best choice because most companies use animal-sourced gelatin for the capsules, while most liquids are packed in either olive oil or coconut oil.

A TRULY Guilt-Free Non Vegan Vitamin D

But if using sheep's wool is still not within your ethical beliefs, and since Vegan Vitamin D is NOT bioidentical, if you could have a 100% guaranteed to be guilt-free entirely humane animal sourced vitamin d3, would you use it?

Well, you already have and do! It's YOUR skin. The most efficient way to make vitamin d is by exposing your skin to sunlight on a regular basis. However, most people simply don't get enough sun to make sufficient quantities of vitamin d from the sun. In fact, one study done showed that a group of young women living in Hawaii who got approx 12 hours of sunlight each week were STILL vitamin d deficient. So, a good rule of thumb is that if you are not tanned and bronzed, or your skin is naturally so dark that you do not notice getting a tan, then you are probably vitamin d deficient and are back where you started.

OR..

You can use a 'Home Vitamin D Generator'. While it is not Vegan Vitamin D, most vegans shouldn't object to using yourself for the workhorse to produce vitamin d using an In Home Vitamin D Producing Tanning Bed in order to generate all of the Vitamin D that you need!

So, vegans, I hope that- if you were sufficiently talked out of taking Vegan Vitamin D in the form of D2- that you are able to find a vitamin d3 supplement that is morally and ethically acceptable to you and that you experience the long-term health benefits that being vitamin d sufficient can provide to you over time.

Next, find out about the AMAZING research that shows that risk of breast cancer can be reduced up to 75% using vitamin d....

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Breast Cancer and Vitamin D

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