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Curious Kids: how does the Sun help your body make vitamin D? – The Conversation AU
A light invisible to humans makes chemicals in our skin very excited. In fact, the chemicals become so excited they change shape and become vitamin D.
How does the Sun help your body make vitamin D? Wesley, aged 7
Thanks for this great question, Wesley.
Vitamin D is created when the chemicals in our skin react to an invisible type of light from the Sun.
In Australia, most of our vitamin D is made in our skin, but we can can also get a little bit of vitamin D from some of the food we eat like fish, eggs and mushrooms.
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