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To: grundle

Vitamin D is made from sub cutaneous 7-Dehydrocholesterol a cholesterol metabolite from the cholesterol humans make naturally internally. Humans (all skin pigmented types) exposed to sunlight biochemically convert this cholesterol metabolite into Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Dehydrocholesterol

The symptoms of severe prolonged sunlight (sunburn) have excessive Vitamin D production (overdose) in the description— severe headaches from the excess D (which is a fat soluble Vitamin and takes a long time to be cleared from the body— through the liver and gall bladder).


19 posted on 05/15/2020 9:29:08 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

Can Vit. D deficiency be caused by wearing sunscreen while outdoors? A generation ago, prior to widespread sunscreen use, one didn’t hear about Vit D deficiency.


47 posted on 05/15/2020 10:40:44 AM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and forests!)
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