Are you getting enough Vitamin A?!
Could your constant suffering from Night blindness, Excessive dry skin, total blindness, poor growth, or impaired Immune system be due to a deficiency in vitamin A?
Ancient Greek and Egyptian physician Hippocrates recommended the consumption of Beef liver as a preventive and cure for Night blindness, a cure that still works up till today!
90% of body Vitamin A is found in the beef liver.
Although vitamins per se, was not discovered until the 20th century, Vitamin A was known for more than 3500 years as a factor NEEDED TO PREVENT NIGHT BLINDNESS.
As far back as the 1920s, researchers recognized that Vitamin A (mostly known as retinoic acid) was important for immune system functions.
They recognized that increased incidence of Infections was one of the first symptoms of Vitamin A deficiency.
This may be due, in part, because Vitamin A helps maintain the Epithelium, a barrier that protects the body against the entry of disease pathogens.
Vitamin A refers to preformed retinoids and provitamin A carotenoids, that can be converted to Vitamin A activity.
Kidney disease also increases the risk of its toxicity.
Therefore, it is advised you reduce Vit A intakes or supplements if you have kidney disease.
Although Vit A is mostly excreted in the urine if it reaches toxic levels in the body. Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for Vit A is 900πg for men and 700πg for women daily.
Carotene found in most Orange fleshed fruits e.g plums, carrots, orange, yellow yams, sweet potatoes, etc, is a good source of provitamin A.
Take a plate full Vitamin A rich foods today, boost your immune system to prevent the risk of viruses, Pathogens, and all forms Infections.
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