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Your skin automatically adjusts and “turns off” the vitamin D you get from sun when you have enough. > You cannot get too much vitamin D from sunshine because
by Mistletoe 3y ago
Your skin automatically adjusts and “turns off” the vitamin D you get from sun when you have enough.
> You cannot get too much vitamin D from sunshine because your skin limits the amount of vitamin D it makes.
>https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-Consumer https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-Consumer
I was once at a dinner sitting at the table with the head of the USA office of supplements and asked him how much Vitamin D one should take and he said “Get sunshine.”
- Aerroon 3y agoSure, your skin limits it, but I was target getting at that the amounts are so wildly different.
- mint2 3y agoSoo in other words, the official lives in Florida? What was their non-useless recommendation for someone living in Seattle or similar during the winter?
- Aerroon 3y agoI think the official was just being dismissive. It's not exactly a simple answer that fits everyone.