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Day 239 - Did You Take Your Vitamin-D Today?
239/365 (August 27, 2010) – Vitamin-D has a pretty cool biological history. It played a critical role in the maintenance of a calcified skeleton in vertebrates as they left their calcium-rich ocean environment for land over 350 million years ago. Because it can only be synthesized via a photochemical process, early vertebrates that ventured onto land either had to ingest foods that contained Vitamin-D or had to be exposed to sunlight to photosynthesize it in their skin to satisfy their body’s vitamin D requirement.
In recent years various studies have linked low levels of Vitamin-D with a number of health issues from cancer to heart disease.
In a nutshell, it is an important vitamin and one worth popping on a daily basis.
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