What is Vitamin D? And what does it have to do with the sun?!

29/02/2024 44 min Episodio 181
What is Vitamin D? And what does it have to do with the sun?!

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Have you heard about Vitamin D? Has someone ever told you that you need it and it's really important? Have you ever wondered why? And have you ever wondered what the heck THE SUN has to do with Vitamin D? Well rise and shine it's time to finally get to the bottom of this.
References from this Episode

https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/shining-a-light-on-vitamin-d/3004782.article
https://www.bcm.edu/news/how-to-get-vitamin-d-without-spending-too-much-time-in-the-sun
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2669834/
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b00208

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