Vitamin D and Bone Health What is Vitamin D? Vitamin D, first identified as a vitamin early in the 20th century, is now recognized as a prohormone. It is a group of fat-soluble secosteroids that is naturally present in very few foods, responsible for increasing intestinal absorption of calcium, magnesium, and phosphate, and many other biological effects. Vitamin D plays an important ro...
How Vitamin D Affects Our Lives Vitamin D is an essential fat-soluble Vitamin for humans and an important regulatory factor in the body. It can be stored in adipose tissue and participates in blood circulation. Vitamin D is widely recognized to have multiple effects on the human body, not only involving calcium and phosphorus metabolism but also influencing muscles, cardiovascular health, m...