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Vitamin D for Bones & More
Posted by Margy Squires on 6/1/2026 to
Vitamin D3
D is not really a vitamin! That’s right. Around 1920 in wintry England, a dog loving researcher concluded that his dogs were developing rickets (bone deformation) due to a missing nutrient because when fed cod liver oil, they recovered. He named the nutrient vitamin D. It wasn’t until a decade later that scientists learned vitamin D could be synthesized in the skin with adequate exposure to sunlight. They thus determined lack of sunlight caused the D deficiency and subsequent rickets. Vitamin D earned the nickname “the sunshine vitamin” but lost its “essential” status since a nutrient is defined as “essential” only if it cannot be produced in our bodies
Read more to discover why D3 is important for your health and why you should get tested for a deficiency!
