Vitamin D and skin colour Triggering of vitamin D production in the skin by ultraviolet (UV) rays in sunlight, marked limitation at high latitudes, and a key rôle for human skin colour are ...

Sunlight streams through your window, casting a warm glow across your living room. It’s inviting, life-giving and, according to mounting scientific evidence, essential for your health. Yet the ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My blood work showed that I was slightly low in vitamin D, so my doctor recommended that I take a supplement. My pharmacist was concerned and told me that vitamin D does not get ...

My previous blog post ("Vitamin D Is Essential for Human Reproduction") discussed the “sunshine vitamin” and emphasized the impacts of deficiency on reproductive health. But this topic is too big for ...