(Taiwan English News / Zhu Mingzhu comprehensive foreign report) Sedentary is known as the source of all diseases, so office workers often attribute low back pain, lower back pain or muscle weakness to long-term sedentary, but you know that these discomforts are actually vitamins Typical symptoms of D deficiency.
“Insider” cites a real case of a vitamin D deficiency patient. When the new crown epidemic first broke out 3 years ago, this case had just completed his master’s degree and started his writing career at that time. Because of the epidemic prevention, his chances of going out were greatly reduced, and he spent most of his time at his desk.
I don’t know when it started, he often felt low back pain and lumbago, and even muscle spasms when walking and climbing stairs, but he always thought that these were the side effects of long-term sedentary, until one day he went to the orthopedic doctor, and the doctor suggested After a blood test, it was discovered that the problem was a long-term lack of vitamin D.
On the advice of his doctor, he started taking 60,000 IU of vitamin D per week, and also went to the sun for 15 minutes every morning, while doing a series of stretching exercises to relieve muscle tension in the back, waist and legs, which lasted about After 3 weeks, the pain and cramps in the body finally improved significantly.
What is vitamin D deficiency?
Vitamin D is also nicknamed the “sunshine vitamin” and helps to maintain the health of bones, teeth and muscles. If vitamin D is deficient, it may cause chronic pain, affect skeletal muscles, autoimmunity, skin and other pains, and increase the risk of Risks of various diseases, such as depression, dementia, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, etc.
Generally speaking, the human body can naturally synthesize vitamin D through sufficient sunlight, and it can also be absorbed through diet, such as deep-sea fish, animal liver, egg yolk, dairy products, cod liver oil, yeast, lean meat, etc.
According to a literature analysis study from 2000 to 2022, about 15.7% of people around the world have low vitamin levels. It is inferred that the reasons may be due to long-term work at home or indoors, lack of outdoor sports, and wearing sunscreen when going out.
Common symptoms of vitamin D deficiency:
Bone and muscle pain, fatigue, depression, slow wound healing, etc., but people often mistake these symptoms for other diseases such as aging, thus delaying medical treatment.
In addition, vitamin D deficiency is also known as a “silent epidemic”, because patients may accumulate over the years, many symptoms are not obvious, and are easily overlooked or misdiagnosed, for example, lack of calcium, phosphorus and other minerals It can cause symptoms such as bone headaches and muscle cramps. If the patient does not have a blood test, it is difficult to find out that the vitamin D content in the body is insufficient.
How to improve vitamin deficiency?
If you’ve been diagnosed with low vitamin D levels, your doctor may prescribe vitamin D supplements and recommend getting vitamin D through sun exposure and dietary changes. Since vitamin D mostly exists in animal foods, it is recommended to ingest it from foods such as fish, egg yolks, and animal livers. In addition, black fungus and mushrooms are also rich in vitamin D.
2023-08-16 07:35:51
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