Vitamin D: What It Does & What Happens If You’re Deficient

The ‘sunshine’ vitamin is a hot topic that has attracted attention over the past decades, specially that a considerable proportion of the worldwide population are deficient in this essential nutrient. Vitamin D was primarily acknowledged for its importance in bone formation, however; increasing evidence point to its interference with the proper function of nearly every tissue in our bodies including brain, heart, muscles, immune system and skin.