3 Simple Ways to Increase Your Vitamin D Intake:

1. Take a good quality Vitamin D supplement. Try Vitamin D Ultra 10K (take 1 capsule daily).

Or for maintenance, take cod liver oil which contains Vitamin D. Try Ultimate Cod Liver Oil caps by Pharmax (take 2 caps daily with a meal or 1 tsp. liquid cod oil in smoothies).

2. Eat more more seafood containing Vitamin D.
Great sources of Vitamin D include cold-water fish like herring, mackerel, and salmon, oysters on the half shell, fish roe (fish eggs).

Pork or lard or from healthy pastured hogs can be purchased from farmer's markets and online. Always ask to make sure the hogs were raised free to run around and get sunlight and not in a cage their whole life since this will dramatically impact if the lard or pork contains Vitamin D. Lard is very heat stable so it can be used for high heat cooking.

Side note: don't confuse disease promoting fast food fats with lard from pastured animals. They are very different fats! Real lard is too expensive to use commercially. Junk food and fast foods use cheap liquid corn or vegetable oils, and fats from unhealthy caged animals which are disease-promoting. Read more on health benefits of using healthy animal fats like lard for health from the Weston A Price Foundation.

If pork fat from pastured hogs isn't your thing, you can also get Vitamin D from grassfed meats and liver, egg yolks from pastured chickens, and raw milk dairy foods from healthy cows who eat grass their whole life.

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Keep in touch with us about your Vitamin D levels as you take the challenge, and let us know if you notice a difference in your mood and immune system as your levels go up!