how does the Sun help your body make vitamin D?
- Written by Robyn Lucas, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Australian National University
ShutterstockHow does the Sun help your body make vitamin D? Wesley, aged 7
Thanks for this great question, Wesley.
Vitamin D is created when the chemicals in our skin react to an invisible type of light from the Sun.
In Australia, most of our vitamin D is made in our skin, but we can can also get a little bit of vitamin D from some of the food we...






