𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞 𝐒.𝐀.𝐃 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐧 𝐠𝐨?🌞

Summer will soon sadly be coming to an end here in the UK, and it won’t be long before the clocks ⏱️ change in October plunging us all into darkness for the next 6 months.

“Will you be S.A.D to see the sun 🌞 go?” and do the winter months have an effect on your mental 😢 and emotional health?

Hopefully, we can help explain as to why you might be feeling less chirpy during the autumn 🍂 and winter ☃️ months, and why exactly the sun 🌞 helps to turn your frown upside down. 😄

Then move on briefly to the importance of vitamin D and your immune 🦠system, and why it has such a pivotal role to play for your overall health and well-being.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞 🌞

Vitamin D or the sunshine 🌞 vitamin, which is actually a hormone has many positive health benefits as it is a key regulator and controls around 900 🧬genes, or 1/24 of your entire genome.

Vitamin D 🌞 also turns on the expression of TPH2 (Tryptophan hydroxylase 2) which is a gene in the brain 🧠 associated with mental health that converts tryptophan found in various foods into serotonin the “happy hormone”.😄

Serotonin has a wide variety of functions, from regulating your mood, happiness 😄 and anxiety 😢, as well as learning skills and memory. It’s also extremely important in appetite control as well as regulating the body’s sleep cycle and internal clock.

This will be one of the main reasons as to why depression and anxiety levels skyrocket during the winter months.

Now, before you can turn tryptophan into serotonin you will need your vitamin D 🌞 to have been converted effectively as vitamin D 🌞 doesn’t exert it effects from being present within the blood.🩸

This is why a blood test 🩸 only tells half the story, as just because a nutrient is present within the blood 🩸 does not mean you are genetically converting it.

We all have specific genes 🧬 that are responsible for various physiological functions such as the journey that vitamin D 🌞 takes before you can actually use it.

Once you know your specific conversion rate of vitamin D 🌞, there are various lifestyle recommendations to improve your genetic 🧬 expression as simply taking more vitamin D 🌞in many instances will not work.

This may help to alleviate S.A.D and improve your general mood and well-being during the autumn 🍂 and winter ☃️ months.

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