Nail Your Nutrition Podcast
Nail Your Nutrition Podcast
22: Why is Vitamin D Important for Athletes? What You Need to Know About Performance!
Sarah and Marita answer a listener question about whether overdoing it on fueling can be detrimental to performance and how to know if you are overfueling (hint - it's rare).
They also discuss:
- Why Vitamin D is important for athletes and why where you live may determine your Vitamin D status
- The roles Vitamin D plays in the immune system
- Why Vitamin D deficiency can pose overall health problems
- The relationship between sun exposure, Vitamin D and sunscreen
- How much Vitamin D athletes may need
- How treadmill runners, early morning runners, or athletes who wear many layers may want to get their Vitamin D levels tested
- How to request a Vitamin D test
- The discrepancies over Vitamin D recommendations and how they may differ for athletes
- The supplement we recommend
- How Vitamin D status may impact CO-VID19 severity and symptoms
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