Vitamins play a crucial role in the human body’s metabolism and these exotic molecules are essential for the proper functioning of cells in the body.  Vitamins are organic chemicals that must be obtained from dietary sources, as the body does not make vitamins.  Theory has it that somewhere along the process of evolution, our bodies have lost the ability to make vitamins, so instead we need to obtain them from our diet.  Of course there would be one exception to prove the rule, and in the case of vitamins, it is Vitamin D, which our cells in the skin can make if there is enough sunlight.  No wonder it is referred to as the “sunshine vitamin”. The epidermal layer of

Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to more severe illness and an increased fatality rate due to COVID-19, the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Observational studies at the AZ Delta General Hospital in Roeselare, Belgium, at the Hospital Universitario Marquis de Valdecilla in Spain, as well as at the M L B Medical College in India, have found that a significant number of COVID-19 patients presented with vitamin D deficiency at admission. In Spain over 80% of 216 COVID-19 patients, in Belgium 59% of 186 patients, and in India 58% of 154 patients included in the observational studies were vitamin D deficient.  In Belgium, the admission of COVID-19 patients with vitamin D deficiency (below

More and more research papers are supporting the vital role of Vitamin D in optimal health and disease prevention.  Vitamin D affects your DNA through vitamin D receptors, which bind to specific locations on the human genome – nearly 3000 genes in the human body are influenced by your vitamin D level –  hence the very wide involvement of this vitamin in many functions and overall health of the human body. The well established role of vitamin D is that it is responsible for the absorption of calcium from the human gut.  However, we know today that vitamin D plays even a wider role in the human body.  Many receptors for vitamin D have been found in the human brain,