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The science behind vitamin D
How does your body make vitamin D? We start with a molecule called 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC). This is made in your skin on the pathway to cholesterol. When your body needs vitamin D, it uses 7-DHC and on the vitamin D pathway. Energy from the sun reaches us as ultraviolet (UV) radiation, mostly UVA or UVB.…
Nicola Wade 