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Vitamin D Deficiency is Cause of Low Sex Drive in Women
Vitamin D deficiency is one of the main causes of low sex drive in women.
Are you been getting enough D? Among other things, Vitamin D impacts your sex
hormones and your mood, which, if you�re like most people, you definitely want
working as well as possible! Vitamin D is so important, it�s one of my top six
biohacks.
Vitamin D deficiency can cause low estrogen in women, which means low sex drive.
It also causes low testosterone in men. So if you tend to feel more frisky
during the summer than the winter, there�s a very good reason for it � increased
vitamin D causes your hormones, and your libido, to peak during summer months.
Studies have shown that men with adequate vitamin D � 30.0 mcg/L or more � have
significantly more testosterone than men whose vitamin D levels fall from
20.0-29.9 mcg/L.
Testosterone and estrogen levels don�t just affect sex drive, they also have
huge impacts on your mood. Low testosterone can cause depression, anxiety, and
irritability.
Similarly, estrogen helps boost serotonin and GABA, critical neurotransmitters,
which help keep you calm and happy.
Vitamin D also has other, more direct, effects on your mood. Vitamin D activates
the genes that release dopamine and serotonin. The lack of these
neurotransmitters is commonly linked to depression.
This connection might help explain Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD
(convenient acronym, right?). People tend to assume that SAD is caused by the
gloomy darkness of the short winter days, but in fact, those short days and more
time indoors doesn�t just mean darker skies; it also means you�re getting less
vitamin D, and therefore less dopamine and serotonin. It�s good to ramp up your
vitamin D supplementation during the winter.
Even though there are all these benefits to adequate vitamin D levels � and
there are plenty more � an estimated 77 percent of Americans don�t get enough of
it. This makes sense, since we are basically giant hairless apes, and we are
supposed to get our vitamin D from our entire body being exposed to the sun for
most of the day, every day, causing endogenous vitamin D to be formed under our
skin. Since we wear clothes, spend way too much time inside, and constantly
slather on sunscreen when we go to the beach, we get only a tiny fraction of the
vitamin D we need.
Fortunately, you can also get the amount of vitamin D (D-3 is the best form to
take) you need by taking a supplement. The only difference is that UV-B rays
have to react with the cholesterol in your skin to become vitamin D-3 (cholecalciferol),
whereas with a supplement, the vitamin has already been formed, so your body can
skip this step. With either method, the D-3 then goes to your liver, where it�s
converted into 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
So don�t feel like you have to be an equatorial nudist to get adequate vitamin
D, but do make sure you take a vitamin D supplement (1,000 IU daily for every 25
pounds of total body weight). And even though �adequate� vitamin D levels are
around 30 ng/mL, aim for around 50-60, because that�s where you get your best
benefits.
Studies in Australia suggest that sexual desire may be increased by increasing
the daily dose of vitamin D.
Vitamin D deficiency is a major problem in America and in northern latitudes in
general because people living in these areas do not absorb enough from
sunshine�the main natural source of vitamin D. Diet is not a main source of
vitamin D, which is mostly gotten from vitamin D-enriched foods, such as
breakfast cereals and dairy products, and fatty fish, such as salmon, tuna and
mackerel. So, what to do about it? For better cardiovascular health and a better
sex life, women should be sure to get their vitamin D levels checked when they
go in for physicals and consider vitamin D supplementation if their D levels are
low.
Women Fitness hope that the above resource shall help the women with Vitamin D
deficiency to bring back spark in their sex life.
Dated 05 November 2015
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