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Vitamin D basically helps your body absorb phospate and calcium.

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Which vitamin can not be made in human body?

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Which is the only vitamin that is manufactured naturally by the human body not through any diet?

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What is the primary active form of vitamin d in the human body?

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What type of light rays make vitamin D in the human body?

ultraviolet


What can the human skin do that the human body can't do?

Human skin produces Vitamin D in presence of sun light but not the other parts of body.


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The importance of vitamin D is diverse in the human body. It helps mainly helps in the absorption and metabolism of calcium and phosphorus. Lack of vitamin D in the body could cause health problems in the body.


Is everything called a vitamin a vitamin?

No, vitamins are by definition an essential nutrient that cannot be made by the body in sufficient quantities. Vitamin D is not really a vitamin. The human body can produce this nutrient and it is actually a hormone, not a vitamin.


Why does the sun play an important role to the human body?

The sun helps the body synthesize vitamin D. This vitamin is very important.Here's a page that fully describes vitamin D: http://dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov/factsheets/vitamind.asp


Does radiation have vitamin D?

Sunlight helps the human body to manufacture vitamin D. In that sense one can say that solar radiation contributes to vitamin D. It does not have vitamin D, though.


How do you reduce vitamin D in body?

The only way to reduce vitamin D in the body is to stop intake of vitamin D.


Why vitamine D called sunsine vitamine?

Vitamin D is called the "sunshine vitamin" because it can produced by the human body when the skin is directly exposed to UV rays from the sun.