Vitamin D

What is vitamin D?¹

Vitamin D is both a nutrient we eat and a molecule that our bodies produce in response to sunlight.^1,2 The main role of vitamin D is to maintain calcium concentrations within the blood and support bone and muscle function.¹ Other important roles of vitamin D include:¹

• Absorbing and retaining phosphorus
• Reducing cancer growth
• Helping control infection
• Reducing inflammation

Many organs have vitamin D receptors which suggests that vitamin D plays a part of many bodily functions that have yet to be discovered.²

Recommended dietary intake of vitamin D¹

Sunlight

Fatty fish, seafood, mushroom, egg yolk

Vitamin D supplements, fortified milk and oral nutritional supplements