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how does the Sun help your body make vitamin D?

  • Written by Robyn Lucas, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Australian National University
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How does the Sun help your body make vitamin D? Wesley, aged 7

how does the Sun help your body make vitamin D?

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...

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