The lack of vitamins and minerals that many Russians face has nothing to do with the spring season. This was told by the Fomin Clinic pediatrician Emilia Gavrilova to socialbites.ca Children’s network.
In other words, according to him, we are primarily talking about iron and vitamin D deficiency.
“Iron deficiency has nothing to do with the season. “Vitamin D levels can also be lowered at any time of the year.”
The pediatrician explained that vitamin D levels drop after winter due to lack of sun, but its development and iron deficiency can be prevented with proper nutrition before spring comes.
“These deficiencies are better not to wait, but to prevent: eat meat products every day, do not consume more than 400 ml of dairy and sour-milk products per day, and take vitamin D prophylactically – all year or from September to May,” he said.
With increased fatigue or frequent acute respiratory viral infections, he recommended seeing a doctor who will recommend checking the level of iron and vitamin D in the blood.
According to Emilia Gavrilova, iodine and fluorine deficiencies are common in parts of Russia.
“But it also has nothing to do with the time of year,” he said.
The energy surge that occurs in people who take vitamins in the spring, linked the pediatrician to the placebo effect.
“Vitamins do a great job of being a placebo – a pacifier that can be up to 50% effective. So almost half of the people who take the vitamins help cope with the feeling of tiredness and never-ending SARS! the doctor explained.
He added that the lack of energy in the spring, which is often associated with spring beriberi, is actually caused by the emotional exhaustion that comes from winter.
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