Vitamin D Deficiency
By Melissa Brandon | March 11, 2020
Vitamin D is not like the other vitamins. It is actually a steroid hormone that our bodies manufacture via exposure to the sun’s UV-B rays. It takes about 10 minutes of midday sun exposure (no sunscreen) for a fair skinned person to produce 10,000 IU’s which keeps your levels of Vitamin D high. Darker skin pigmentation may require as much as 20 minutes of sunlight. Unfortunately, there are a few things getting in the way of us getting the Vitamin D our bodies need, including seasonal disruptions (no UV-B rays), sunscreen and decreased outdoor activity.