Why do we need Vitamin D?
Sunshine's Secret Work
Why do we need Vitamin D?
You step outside on a sunny morning, and something invisible happens. Your skin starts making something your body desperately needs — something you can't see, smell, or feel being made. It's called Vitamin D, and without it, your whole body would start falling apart in the strangest ways.
Here's the weird part: Vitamin D isn't really a vitamin at all. It's a hormone — a chemical messenger your body makes itself when sunlight hits your skin. The UV rays trigger cells in your skin to transform a type of cholesterol into Vitamin D, which then travels through your bloodstream like a delivery truck carrying instructions to nearly every part of your body.
