The benefits of sun & D

Vitamin D is essential for our health, and our bodies naturally synthesize it when our skin is exposed to sunlight.

Vitamin D may be familiar to most people from the side of a milk carton — milk in the US is regularly fortified with Vitamin D because it helps our bodies absorb the calcium in milk and grow strong bones.

But did you know the D does so much more for us?

Vitamin D supports our immune system, helps our bodies fight inflammation, helps regulate cell death and growth, and may help with depression and protecting against dementia.

In addition to helping us synthesize Vitamin D, the sun’s rays can also lower your blood pressure! New research is revealing that the same UV rays that help us create Vitamin D also cause blood vessels to open further, reducing systolic blood pressure.

So what are you waiting for? Get in the sun today and start farming some D.