TIME.CO, Jakarta – One way to prevent that from happening vitamin D deficiency is to get food sunlight enough for the skin. Even so, Indonesia, a country very rich in sunlight, lacks it vitamin D they remain vulnerable to the community. Because?
Indonesia is a tropical country located near the equator. This causes the sun as the center of the solar system to often stop in Indonesia. When the sun is at the equator, the temperature around it rises.
Quoted from the study titled Vitamin D as prevention of degenerative and malignant diseases: a literature review Published in the Medula Journal, studies conducted in Bekasi and Jakarta on vitamin D deficiency suggest that there is a prevalence of vitamin D deficiency of 50% in women aged 45 to 55 years.
Research published in 2019 showed that the proximity of a place to live to the equator does not promise to be free from vitamin D deficiency. The status of a tropical country is in line with the possibility that its population is vitamin D deficient .
Lack of sunlight exposure is indeed one of the factors that cause a vitamin D deficiency. So how can Indonesians be vitamin D deficient?
Causes of Vitamin D Deficiency
Again cited from the same source, here are the factors that make Indonesians still suffer from vitamin D deficiency:
1. Use of sunscreen
Sunscreen is a skin care product that can absorb both UVA and UVB rays. As a result, the UVB radiation in the skin is blocked and blocks the process of changing 7-dehydrocholesterol to become more active vitamin D. It is known that sunscreen counteracts the process up to 98%.
2. Skin pigmentation
The darker the color, the higher the melanin content in the skin. Melanin is a substance that has the same function as sunscreen, blocking UVB radiation. For this reason, dark-skinned people need a longer time to be exposed to sunlight to get the most vitamin D.
3. Closed clothing
In Indonesia, most people, especially women, cover their body parts with long clothes for the sake of decency. This actually makes it difficult for the parts of the skin covered by clothing to receive UVB radiation. Consequently, the levels of vitamin D contained in these parts are also different from those exposed to direct sunlight.
The previously mentioned research also explains that at least 20 percent of the body needs to be exposed to the sun, in order for the vitamin D in the body to be satisfied.
4. He has kidney problems
Damaged kidneys inhibit the process of vitamin D metabolism. This is because the kidneys are organs that play an important role in the formation of vitamin D.
Patients with chronic kidney disease may be increasingly deficient in vitamin D as they require hemodialysis. This tool will cause the patient to experience an inability to take enough 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D. The effect is to inhibit the parathyroid hormone.
5. Obesity
Overweight or obese people are more likely to have lower serum vitamin D3 levels than those of ideal weight. The amount of vitamin D that obese people get from food and skin synthesis will be reduced during production.
This occurs because large amounts of vitamin D cannot be released into the circulation due to reduced bioavailability. Therefore, take care of yourself body weight remaining normal is important to avoid the occurrence of vitamin D differentiation.
PRINCESS SAFIRA PITALOKA
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