Optimal Over Ok - Don't settle for a Vitamin D level that is below optimal. You deserve optimal health.

A Vitamin D level that is just "OK" might put your health and future at risk. There is an essential difference between a Vitamin D level that was once considered sufficient or "OK" in the past and a Vitamin D level that is considered optimal.

Our understanding of Vitamin D has come a long way over the past century. Decades ago, we believed that Vitamin D was only significant for maintaining strong bones. Researchers determined over 50 years ago that a Vitamin D level of around 18 or 20 ng/ml was sufficient to prevent the bone-weakening disease of Rickets. For many years, that was all your doctor cared about. If you had enough Vitamin D in your blood to prevent rickets and osteoporosis, you were "OK"!

We now know that Vitamin D is more critical than just strong bones! It is important for mental health, brain function, a healthy immune system, inflammation regulation, and much more! There are over 25,000 scientific studies about Vitamin D. There is a consensus among hundreds of experts worldwide that an optimal Vitamin D level is between 40 and 60 ng/ml. Anthropological evidence also supports this idea because experts believe that our ancestors would have lived and worked outdoors and naturally achieved a Vitamin D level in this range.

Experts in human performance and human optimization are latching on to this data and advising their patients and clients to seek optimal Vitamin D levels through a combination of healthy sunlight exposure and supplementation.

The good people at GrassRootsHealth.net put together an incredible chart (seen above) demonstrating evidence that we should strive to have a Vitamin D level between 40 and 60 ng/ml. You can see that this chart lists about ten different diseases that could be impacted by a Vitamin D level between 40 and 60 ng/ml. Interestingly, the Vitamin D needed to prevent Rickets is roughly half optimal. If you settle for a Vitamin D level that's just enough to prevent Rickets, you're leaving yourself vulnerable.