How Our Bodies Convert Sunlight Into Vitamin D

It’s thought that a lot of Alzheimer’s disease patients have a vitamin D deficiency, since recent studies have shown that this vitamin can prevent the development and progression of Alzheimer’s. Vitamin D is often called the “sunshine vitamin,” mostly because we can get it naturally when the sun’s UV rays interact with our skin, which triggers the vitamin’s synthesis. The VIP vitamin aids our body’s absorption of calcium to keep our bones strong and encourage healthy cells to grow.

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Vitamin D can be found naturally in foods like egg yolks, oily fish, and mushrooms. Some food products such as milk, orange juice, and breakfast cereals are fortified with it. However, the best source of vitamin D is the sun. In this video from DNews, how our skin converts sunlight into vitamin D is explained–it’s called dermal vitamin synthesis.

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