Dr Shivani
Sachdev Gour, Gynaecologist and IVF Expert, SCI Healthacare shares her views on
how despite being sun abundant in India, Vitamin D deficiency is found in the
country especially in women. She discusses the sources by which one can get
Vitamin D, consequences and signs of deficiency and how one can measurement it.
She further discusses the importance of Vitamin D for women. Vitamin D
increases fertility, prevents breast cancer, make bones healthy and strong, prevents
PCOD and support immune system. She suggests that one could obtain Vitamin D
from three sources namely sun exposure, fortification of staple foods with
Vitamin D and Vitamin D supplementation.
Inspite of
India being a country of abandoned sunshine, it is estimated that more than 80%
of healthy Indians especially women are Vitamin D deficient. Indian women both
in urban and rural settings and of all socio economic strata are Vitamin D
deficient and are not even aware of this deficiency and its consequences.
Vitamin D deficiency is associated
with high prevalence of
• Type2 Diabetes – Vitamin D is
required to balance sugar levels in the blood by regulating the secretion of
insulin. Hence, Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of developing Type2
Diabetes later in life.
• Tuberculosis
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Osteoporosis, osteopenia (thinning of
bones) – as Vitamin D helps in absorption of Calcium from the food we eat in
the intestine. Therefore, Vitamin D deficiency will lead to calcium deficiency
as well which will lead to weak and achy bones causing osteoporosis and
increased risk of fractures.
• Cancer
• Asthma
• Flu – as Vitamin D plays an important
role in activating the cells of the immune system which helps to fight
infections. Therefore, if deficiency leads to risk of recurrent infections.
• Anaemia
• Infertility – a daily morning walk of
20 minutes under the sun can help in boosting the reproductive system as
Vitamin D stimulates the production of female hormone progesterone.
Know more
here Why
Vitamin D is important for women?
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