10/29/2025
🌦️ Feeling that Fall Funk? It Might Be Low Vitamin D! 🌦️
As the days grow shorter and darker, and rainy weather rolls in, many people start feeling a dip in mood and energy — and one big reason can be low Vitamin D3.
☀️ Vitamin D3 is the sunshine vitamin!
Our bodies naturally make it when our skin is exposed to sunlight. But when we’re bundled up or indoors more during fall and winter, production drops. We can also get some Vitamin D from foods like egg yolks, fatty fish (salmon, sardines), and fortified milk — but it’s still easy to come up short.
🧬 Here’s something fascinating from Dr. Carey Reams’ research:
He found that certain foods can actually block your body’s ability to absorb and use Vitamin D3, contributing to inflammation and low energy. These include:
🚫 Pork and pork products (bacon, sausage, ham, pepperoni, etc.)
🚫 Fish without scales like catfish, tuna, shrimp, crab, eel, and shark...
These foods can interfere with your body’s ability to properly metabolize Vitamin D and can contribute to more pain, inflammation, and sluggishness. And these foods will stay in your system for 6 days affecting your Vit D level. I tell all of my clients to stay away from these foods. It is amazing how much better you feel when you completely get rid of them from your diet.
✨ As we move into the darker months, supporting your body with Vitamin D3 is one of the simplest, most powerful things you can do for your mood, immune system, and overall vitality.
🌞 Consider a quality D3 supplement and give your body that little bit of sunshine it’s missing! I usually recommend a 2,000 IU supplement. I only suggest a 5,000 IU if I know from urine and saliva analysis or blood work that your Vit D level is really low. Some people have a dirty gene that makes their Vit D absorption in the body very inefficient. If you have this gene, you also may need to take 5,000 IU. Remember too much Vit D is not a good thing, either.
