Vitamin D3 Lemon Melts 2000 boosts the prehormone that goes missing in modern life

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This is the simplest way to return your vitamin D level to where it should be. If your working life happens indoors and full body skin exposure to sunlight simply doesn’t happen often enough, then lemon-flavoured melting tablets come to the rescue with each containing 2,000 IU of cholecalciferol (vitamin D3). There are 120 melts in the wee jar, a total of 240,000 IUs.

In the body vitamin D contributes to numerous biological functions including normal function of the immune system, it also plays a role in cell division. Not surprisingly then that vitamin D supports breast health, ovarian health, colon health but also blood sugar regulation and of course bone strength. That is why vitamin D is one part of our approach.

In respect of safety it is useful to keep in mind that your body can produce 10,000 to 25,000 IUs of vitamin D after a bit of full body sun exposure when the sun is high in the sky. The more sun rays reach your skin at a slant, the less they trigger vitamin D production. Vitamin D toxicity, where vitamin D can be harmful, usually happens if you take 40,000 IU a day for a couple of months or longer.

Vitamin D is important because contributes to many very important functions within the body:
• The normal function of the immune system
• The maintenance of normal muscle function
• The maintenance of normal teeth and bones
• Supports the process of cell division which is involved in every single cell in the body
• The normal absorption and utilisation of calcium and phosphorus in the body (the mineral balance within the blood, cells and bone)
• The maintenance of normal blood calcium concentrations

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