New guidelines recommend people aged 75 and older consider taking vitamin D supplements. Here’s why.
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Our bodies primarily rely on sunlight to produce vitamin D.
Excessive exposure causes skin cancer, but sun exposure also has benefits. How do you balance the two?
There’s a common perception that supplements are harmless. But they can be dangerous at incorrect dosages.
Vitamin D is essential for good health and particularly for fighting infections and keeping the microbes in the human gut healthy. But in winter it can be difficult to get enough.
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