5 Myths About Vitamin D You Keep Believing

5 Myths About Vitamin D You Keep Believing

Here's what you probably know about vitamin D: You get it from the sun, it's important for bone health, and low levels can cause rickets, a childhood bone disease that ranks alongside scurvy and the plague as something you're likely to worry about on a daily basis. 

There are probably other things you think you know about vitamin D, thanks to its oft-discussed status in conversations about everything from sunscreen to cancer. But can you tell truth from fiction?

Read on to discover 5 common misconceptions about this vitamin that's certainly enjoying its (ahem) moment in the sun. 

It's true that quality sunscreens block the sun's UVB rays, and that those are the very rays that prompt your skin to produce a version of vitamin D, which is then modified through your liver before becoming available for your body to use. But unless you're covering every nanometer of your skin with sunscreen, at least some UVB is getting into your system. That's right—your naked fingertips are absorbing a D-catalyzing ingredient... (Read More)