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ReviewNutrition & metabolism2025

Vitamin D-is the sun enough for us?

Beata M Gruber-Bzura

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Review in Nutrition & metabolism, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Beata M Gruber-BzuraNational Medicines Institute, Chełmska Str. 30/34, 00-725, Warsaw, Poland. b.gruber@nil.gov.pl.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vitamin D is the easiest available of the exogenous vitamins, just to go outside on a sunny day …. This, of course, is a simplification, but it raises some considerations, such as whether enjoying the beautiful weather during summer will provide us with adequate vitamin D during the dark winter, without the need for additional supplementation. Some sites in the organism provide the long-term supply of calcidiol to serum, such as the adipose tissue or muscles. The questions are: are our "internal storage" of vitamin D efficient? For how long will this storage last? Which of the sources-the sun or oral supplementation is better? In this article, the author also tried to raise a subjects as follows: the doses of vitamin D that the sun provide us with and the form of vitamin D appropriate for the possible formation of its storage in the body. The following conclusions can be drawn: skin synthesis as the sole source of cholecalciferol does not guarantee the maintenance even of a minimal recommended serum calcidiol levels throughout the year. The supplemented doses should be correlated with the determined level of calcidiol in serum. The conducted research shows that vitamin D

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25(OH)D serum concentrationCholecalciferolErgocalciferolSkin synthesisVitamin D storageVitamin D supplementation

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PMID40597369
PMCPMC12220666

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