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Vitamin D is one of the most important nutrients your body needs in order to stay healthy and avoid disease. From merely regulating calcium to help keep your bones and teeth strong, numerous studies are showing the many benefits of vitamin D, particularly its role in enhancing your immune system and helping prevent many diseases like cancer, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure and osteoporosis.

Vitamin D synthesis is triggered when sunlight strikes your bare skin - the best way to obtain this nutrient. Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin naturally present in only a few foods like cod liver oil, fatty fish, raw milk and eggs. So if you don't get enough sunlight and have poor diet habits, it's likely that you are among the estimated 85 percent of people who are silently suffering from vitamin D deficiency.

Since direct sunlight is unavailable for months at a time in most of the continental U.S., it's not that easy to acquire vitamin D regularly through sun exposure.

And even when it's sunny, like during the summer, many people still get very little sun exposure because they spend a lot of time indoors. Your clothes, house, car, office windows and pollution (acid haze) block most of the sun's wavelengths needed to produce vitamin D in your body.

Some people need more vitamin D than others and some have limited ability to naturally regulate it in their bodies. Overweight people have a higher need for vitamin D since vitamin D is fat soluble and is hidden in their body fat. The elderly tend to spend more time indoors and as we age, our skin loses its ability to generate vitamin D. Dark-skinned people have more melanin on their skin, which blocks the sun's UVB radiation.

New evidence also suggests that expecting mothers and their babies can greatly benefit from vitamin D during pregnancy.

If you fall into one of these categories or are simply concerned if you're getting enough of this important nutrient, then it's time to look into other methods to naturally produce Vitamin D.

How Do You Optimize Your Vitamin D Levels?

An option would be to regularly use a tanning bed that uses UVB rays that provide the most health benefits.

If you can't afford a tanning bed, another option is Vitamin D supplementation. The correct type of vitamin D supplement to take is vitamin D3, which is the same type of vitamin D produced through sunlight.

Sunshine Mist Vitamin D Spray is the latest breakthrough in vitamin D3 supplementation brought to you by renowned natural health physician Joseph Mercola and is one of the new additions to the Mercola line of advanced nutritional supplements.

Sunshine Mist Vitamin D Spray uses a patented NanoMist® delivery system that further reduces vitamin D3 molecules to microscopic nanodroplets, providing you with 1000 IU (international units) of vitamin D3 in each dose. It contains no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives, and no sugar, starch, corn, wheat, soy, gluten, eggs, salt or dairy.

There are other vitamin D supplements available, like vitamin D2, which is a synthetic type of vitamin D. Your body needs to convert both vitamin D2 and vitamin D3 to a more active form. Vitamin D3 is converted 500 times faster than vitamin D2.

The tiny vitamin D3 nanodroplets™ in each spray further boosts the efficiency of vitamin D3 by releasing it in a steady, time-controlled manner to ensure a longer-term benefit.

You get the benefits of vitamin D by simply spraying the fine-mist formula into your mouth. No need to take any pills, capsules or gelcaps. What's more, you can take it anywhere with you because it's packed in a convenient non-aerosol container that easily fits into your purse or pocket.

An important reminder from Dr. Mercola: Oral supplementation of vitamin D is not a one-size-fits all approach. Consult your doctor. If you take vitamin D supplements, you need to regularly test your vitamin D levels to ensure that you do not overdose. The correct type of test to use is the 25-hydroxy vitamin D test.

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