Real Vitamin D 🐟

Real Vitamin D 🐟

Sardines are a good move in the winter when you are not getting enough sunlight.

Most people think Vitamin D comes only from pills or rays, but that's just lazy thinking.

A small can gives you a solid 200 IU or so—nothing flashy, but reliable, bioavailable, and loaded with extras like omega-3s, protein and calcium.

You can make them taste good with some olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and some pickled peppers (also rich in Vitamin C).

Forget the hype around taking mega doses of 4,000 IU. They function more like a bioidentical hormone steroid than a vitamin, and it could be argued that they are not adequately absorbed.

Certainly not as absorbable as something like Sardines which also come packed with healthy fats (EPA and DHA) to help transport and utilize the Vitamin D in them.

Sardines capture the sun in an edible form, and are a long proven and practiced form of nutrition by ancient long lived cultures.

They are easily found in stores as “wild caught” and don't pretend to be anything they're not.

Eat them a couple times a week, handle the deficiency, and let nature do what supplements try and fail to imitate.

Simple as that. 🐟

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