Pocket Healers: Vitamin D

"Pocket Healers" is a series of 12 pocket-sized paperbacks, each taking a popular herbal or vitamin supplement and detailing its healing properties. There is advice on recommended dosages for specific conditions and remedies you can make at home.

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Vitamin D helps the body absorb and utilize calcium and is essential for the development of bones and teeth. It is in this capacity that vitamin D helps prevent two calcium-defieciency diseases: osteoprosis and rickets. Indirectly vitamin D promotes nerve function protects against muscle weakness fosters normal muscle contractions and helps and helps regulate the heartbeat. The vitamin also enhances immune-system function by prompting the thymus glad to create immune-system cells which in turn destroy bacteria viruses and other illness-causing microbes.