Vitamin D and Weight Loss

If you were unsure how maintaining the correct levels of vitamin D in your body correlates to weight loss and health maintenance, this article provides the information you may need.

There are many different ways to improve your chances of losing weight from being careful about what you eat and drink and by getting plenty of exercise every day. But there are also other factors that can affect your weight in both a positive and a negative way.

It helps to know about these things as you could be trying to diet really hard but not be seeing the results you are expecting to see.

What Your Body Needs

One of the ways that really helps is to make sure you maintain the correct levels of vitamin D in your body. There are a number of ways you can do this, although on of the best ways is to help your body manufacture its own, which it is able to do. So now you know that vitamin D helps weight loss, how do you go about manufacturing the vitamin?

Well, the best way of doing this is to get yourself out of the house and into the fresh air and sunlight. That's because sunlight triggers the body's natural process that causes it to start manufacturing the vitamin naturally.

This is actually the best way of getting it and it is of course totally free! Just be aware that too much exposure to the sun can bring more problems than it solves such as skin cancer at the most dangerous end of the spectrum, to more rapidly aging skin at the more cosmetic end.

The good news is that by getting just 20 minutes sun exposure per day is enough for your body to manufacture all the vitamin D that it needs.

How it Helps You Lose Weight

One of the ways the body maintains a natural, healthy physical size and mass is by metabolizing the food we eat and processing it into the energy our muscles need for activity. It is designed to process a certain amount of food each day and if we stay within the bounds of our individual makeup, we stay at the weight and size we are supposed to be.

One of the ways our bodies maximize the metabolism process is by having access to the right levels of vitamins and minerals, with vitamin D playing an important role in metabolizing calcium and other minerals responsible for the most efficient processing of the food we consume.

It is when we eat and/or drink too much while having unnaturally low levels of this important element that we gain weight. That happens because we have more energy-providing glucose in our bloodstreams than our muscles can use unless we resort to higher levels of activity (exercise) and the excess gets stored as fat.

By making sure our bodies produce the right amount of this vitamin by getting exposure to the right amount of sunlight each day, we ensure it has the right tools to work with in keeping is at the right size.

The upshot of getting out more is that you also get more natural daylight which improves your mood thanks to the stimulation of serotonin production, which is the body's natural feel good hormone that helps to reduce stress. Getting yourself outside also helps to improve your metabolism and if you are overweight, can also help you to gradually reduce your weight.

That is because when people get out doors, they tend to be more active which all goes to combine together to improve your ability to better maintain a healthy body weight and reduce your chances of getting overweight. More importantly, if you are already overweight, it helps with the process of reducing it.