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Melanin is the pigment that provides skin color, and individuals with darker skin have more of it than those with lighter skin. Having more melanin reduces your ability to synthesize vitamin D from the sun, resulting in lower 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, according to the ODS. Further compounding that can be age, clothing that covers up your skin, sunscreen, and seasonal variations in sunlight exposure.
Another factor affecting the amount of vitamin D in your body and how it is used is the presence of vitamin D binding proteins, which carry the nutrient through your bloodstream to various organs...
Melanin is the pigment that provides skin color, and individuals with darker skin have more of it than those with lighter skin. Having more melanin reduces your ability to synthesize vitamin D from the sun, resulting in lower 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, according to the ODS. Further compounding that can be age, clothing that covers up your skin, sunscreen, and seasonal variations in sunlight exposure.
Another factor affecting the amount of vitamin D in your body and how it is used is the presence of vitamin D binding proteins, which carry the nutrient through your bloodstream to various organs, according to the FNB. “There are reasons to believe that African Americans not only need more sun to produce vitamin D, but they could well have different vitamin D binding proteins that might make them more vulnerable to variations in sunlight,” says Meltzer.
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Does Vitamin D Deficiency Pose a Special Risk for Black People?
It's possible, scientific research shows. More melanin in the skin may impede vitamin D synthesis in the body. Here's what you need to know if you are a Black person concerned about low vitamin D.www.everydayhealth.com
Drink Sunny D and rum, yum yum.The Tranny Doctor will recommend you 3 things:
1. Drink Sunny D
2. Take gummies and pills
3. Cock
Ma'am, we don't tolerate misgendering around here.No Ds until you've had your A, B, Cs, young lady.