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Not everyone can afford getting half naked under the sun on a daily basis. It's easier to be deficient than you think. Do a blood test. You may get an unpleasant surprise. I think about half of the population is either insufficient or deficient without supplementation.


It really depends on what counts as insufficient. There is enough debate in the scientific literature on what constitutes a "sufficient" level of Vit D for most healthy adults. If we set the sufficiency level of 25(OH)D of 20 ng/mL (50 nmol/L), most of the world's adult population would be in the healthy range. These levels can be achieved in a healthy Caucasian adult in a northern latitude in summer (eg, Edinburgh, Scotland) with as little as, say, two sessions of 10 minutes each in a week, exposing just the arms and legs.

Serum levels of Vitamin D also do not plummet with the winter months - it's more of a slow dip, and the seasonal low levels do not seem to negatively effect most adults.




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