Make Your Own Vitamin D Supplements for Pennies

Vitamin D has incredible health benefits. Try making your own vitamin D supplements at home!

DATA:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6213178/

fungi.com/blogs/articles/place-mushrooms-in-sunlight-to-get-your-vitamin-d

0:00 Introduction: Make your own vitamin D supplements

2:12 Other nutrients in mushrooms

2:30 How to make vitamin D supplements

7:15 Check out my video on the benefits of vitamin D

Today, I will show you how to make your own vitamin D supplements using mushrooms. Mushrooms have insignificant amounts of vitamin D unless they are exposed to ultraviolet B light. There is some interesting research on how exposing mushrooms to ultraviolet B light can boost their vitamin D levels. It may be possible to boost the vitamin B in mushrooms from 5,000 IU to 46,000 IU or more. It’s good to consume your mushrooms with some type of fat, like butter, to help increase vitamin D absorption.

Other nutrients in mushrooms:

• B vitamins

• Selenium

• Zinc

• Copper

• Vitamin C

• Potassium 

Mushrooms I recommend:

• Shitake

• Maitake

• Oyster

• Button 

How to make your own vitamin D supplements:

1. Obtain organic mushrooms
2. Use the sun in the summer or use a UV light year-round. Take the stems off of the mushrooms and place them on a tray with the gills facing upward (slice button mushrooms lengthwise). Put them in the sun or under UV light from 10 am-6 pm. After 6 pm, take them inside and cover the tray.
3. The next day, re-expose the mushrooms to the sun or UV light (keep them in a low-moisture environment). If the mushrooms are still not dried out, put them in a food dehydrator.
4. Store the mushrooms in a sealed glass jar with a small amount of dry rice (to absorb any moisture) and seal the lid. They will last up to one year.

my two cents:

if sunlight is low, you can buy a UV-B lightbulb used in reptile terrariums in place of sunlight

check amazon, eBay, or a pet store