What does Vitamin D help with?
Vitamin D- what does it do and could it help your menopause symptoms? One thing many people don’t know about Vitamin D, otherwise known as the ‘sunshine vitamin’, is that it’s actually a hormone. And it’s an important one when it comes bone health and preventing common menopause symptoms like joint and muscle pain. Its real name is calcitriol or 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol. This is the active form of vitamin D, normally made in the kidney but we need sunshine to make it. It binds to and activates the vitamin D receptor in our cells and helps us control the concentration…