Understanding Vitamin D

The high rate of natural production of vitamin D in the skin is the single most important fact every person should know about vitamin D because it has such profound implications for the natural human condition.

Why all this excitement about vitamin D? We all know that vitamin D (cholecalciferol) is crucial to health. But is vitamin D really a vitamin? Is it in the foods humans normally consume? Please explore this web site and discover the amazing answers to these questions.

Did you know:

If you totally avoid the sun, recent research indicates you need about 4,000 units of vitamin D a day! So you can't get enough vitamin D from milk (unless you drink 40 glasses a day) or from a multivitamin (unless you take about 10 tablets a day), neither of which is recommended.

Most of us make about 20,000 units of vitamin D after about 20 minutes of summer sun. This is about 100 times more vitamin D than the government says you need every day.

If you don't get vitamin D the way Mother Nature intended, from sunshine, you need to take vitamin D supplements. As most of us get a lot more vitamin D from sunshine than we think, most of us need about 2,000 units a day extra.

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