What is Vitamin D3?

Vitamin D3, an animal extract, also known as cholecalciferol, is a fat-soluble vitamin with a chemical formula of C27H44O. It is a naturally occurring form of vitamin D and is usually found as an off-white powder.

Vitamin D3 plays a vital role in the human body and is one of the key elements in maintaining bone health. The human body can synthesize vitamin D3, but modern lifestyles and environmental factors, such as air pollution and reduced ultraviolet radiation, lead to insufficient synthesis of vitamin D3, so it needs to be obtained through food or supplements. Foods rich in vitamin D3 include animal foods, especially cod liver oil extracted from fish liver in seafood.

What are the effects?

1. Protect bone health: Vitamin D3 is an important promoter of calcium absorption, which helps build and maintain strong bones and prevent bone diseases such as osteoporosis.
2. Enhance immunity: It can participate in the regulation of immune cells, enhance the body's defense capabilities, and reduce the risk of infection, which is essential for maintaining overall health.
3. Regulate the nervous system: It has a positive effect on the brain and nervous system, helps to stabilize emotions and clear thinking, and improves the quality of life.
4. Reduce the risk of disease: Supplementing with vitamin D3 may reduce the risk of cancer, multiple sclerosis, atopic dermatitis, type I and II diabetes, the risk of heart disease, the possibility of influenza, etc., and help improve the health of people of all ages.
5. Help relieve depression: Taking vitamin D supplements can improve the symptoms of patients with depression.

What are the uses?

1. Pharmaceutical raw materials: Mainly used in nutritional health products and pharmaceutical chemicals, used to treat rickets, rickets, osteoporosis and other diseases caused by vitamin D deficiency.
2. Feed additives: Among feed additives, vitamin D3 is a necessary nutrient element to meet the nutritional needs of livestock and poultry.
3. Food additives: Among food additives, the main function of vitamin D3 is to supplement the vitamins lost during processing and the vitamins lacking in the raw materials, and improve the nutritional value of food.
4. Health care material: Vitamin D3 is also widely used as a health care product, especially among residents in areas with insufficient sunlight or high latitudes, for the prevention and treatment of vitamin D deficiency.