Our skin makes Vitamin D, an important molecule in our body particularly for maintaining calcium balance, when UVB, or ultraviolet B light, from the sun reaches our skin. UVB turns on the skin’s machinery to make vitamin D. But the darker our skin is, the less vitamin D it can make, because melanin, the darkContinue reading “Vitamin D and the Sun”
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Did you know?
Did you know that 5 minutes of sun exposure every day, walking to the mailbox, walking the dog, walking to the car, adds up to 35 minutes a week of incidental sun exposure? So what, you say. Well, those 5 minutes accumulate to 30 hours of incidental sun exposure every year! Most people don’t thinkContinue reading “Did you know?”