It is suggested you can wash Vitamin D off your body after exposure to sunlight and so it should remain long enough for your skin to absorb it.
Vitamin D protects against muscular weakness and is a guardian for your bones. Vitamin D can help to assimilate the calcium you take into your body, and thus help regulate your heart. If you do not have enough calcium in your body, your body will borrow it from your teeth and bones. If your heart begins to flutter (fibrillation) because your calcium level has become too low, calcium can be borrowed from your bones to answer the distress signal from your heart. VITAMIN D MUST BE ON HAND TO HELP IN THIS EMERGENCY BORROWING PROCESS - If Vitamin D is lacking the hearts SOS might not be answered.

Vitamin D is also thought to be a relief for nearsightedness. Arthur A. Knapp, a NY ophthalmologist gave a group of patients large doses of Vitamin D with calcium for 5-28 months. Nearsightedness was decreased in 33% and halted completely in 17%. Same doctor notes that animals on a Vitamin D deficient diet quickly developed cataracts and feels it might also be helpful and prevention and control of those.

not quoted... but information taken from Linda Clark's - Know your Nutrition, Keats Publishing 1984 (original printing 1973 and revised in 1981 by Linda Clark)

Me and the wife just started taking Vit D supplement and we both feel it's had an impact on our personality, in a good way. We've both felt a lot happier and more energetic since starting on it. The coincidence is that my wife's boss started taking it about the same time and said exactly the same thing.

Very Fascinating.

I have a lot of vitamins in my cabinet. Every time I go to the store looking for Vitamin D supplements though, I find those the hardest to come by... I can never find those to purchase.

Fascinating indeedy!

edit to add

It may be just in our general area most people dont request it. It seems like a few people here have the supplements

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I take 5000iu a day during the winter since I live in the Seattle area and we don't get a lot of sun during that time. If the population understood the nutritional deficiencies, need for detoxification in our modern world, and oxidative therapies, there would be no need for 90% of the medical establishment and their PharmaCorp suppliers. What is a doctor without their prescription pad anyway?

Many have cured their own diseases just by going to a more raw food diet. When everything is cooked, it kills all the enzymes in the food, which forces your pancreas to make up the difference in the digestive process. Your body has a limited amount of master enzymes for this purpose. Thus an over worked pancreas and a whole host of issues. Could have something to do with the diabetic epidemic sweeping the country. There are something like 5000 enzymes at work in the body, with something like 80% dedicated to metabolic functions. The 20% for digestion are supposed to come in largely with and from the food we eat. When they don't the body is TAXED.

Then there is the Iodine deficiency. People in Japan take in 12mg a day of Iodine because of their seafood diet. They have many of the best rates for longevity and lack of cancers. Yet we are told that anything over a tiny fraction of that could be bad for our thyroid. Meanwhile, they pump chlorine into your water and put bromine into your bread, both iodine mimics which do nasty things to you. Gee, I wonder why there is so much trouble with peoples thyroids in this country?

Those are just a couple of items that seem self evident after one does the research. Detox and Oxidative therapies are huge, but I don't want to go down a rabbit trail here. Thanks to the OP for bringing this (vit D) to peoples attention.

I have a theory that winter "flu season" has less to do with viruses and useless flu vaccines and more to do with people not getting enough Vitamin D from sunshine.

Which is why I rarely if ever use sunblock and NEVER get flu shots, which I'm convinced are harmful.

I can't remember the last time I was ill.

I asked multiple vitamin stores that carry hundreds of bottles of different things what to take. I said if you could pick only 3 of them to take which ones would they be?
I said I was already taking a basic multi.

They all said vitamin D first, I was really surprised.

Then second mixed oils.
The last one had varied answers, B complex or C complex.

I started taking Vitamin D and haven't had cold or flu since.
I agree in the winter time it seems to be something we all need.

Do your research people! You don't just take vitamins in a pill and all is well. It doesn't work that way........there are food factors and enzymes that are responsible and necessary for your body to assimilate and incorporate Vitamin D. Our food is heated, killed, and otherwise sterilized and there is nothing wholesome or alive about it. i drink tons of raw milk. I'm fine. Raw milk has special phosphatase and other enzymes that are killed off by pasteurization. Our food is dead.....so it's no wonder we are dying as a result.

This amazes me. We are all lacking in one Viatamin or another, I'm sure of it.

We've become lazy. People, Children especially, just are not getting out and about enough these days.

Kids stay inside playing their TV Games. Adults are too busy working than playing. I also think we stay inside more because we don't want to expose ourselves to the sun because we've had it drummed into us that the sun is bad. We don't eat enough of the food we need to get the right doses of vitamins we need.

It is so easy to get the right Vitamins, it's not funny. Why anyone would wan't to pay for Vitamins has me perplexed.

No matter what Vitamin you take you can bet most of it ends up down the Toilet.

Ours bodies are smart enough to take the right dose as long as we don't force too much of one Vitamin down our throats.

Get outside in the Sun more, eat better, more natural foods and Excersise some more.

You'll find yourselves more healthy than a few Tablets from the local store can make you feel..

you dont really believe that 80% of cancers can be prevented with vitamin D do you?
you do know that there are hundred, if not thousands of reasons people get cancer right?
suggesting that 4/5 of this can be prevented by popping a pill is not only bad advice, it can be dangerous to peopel with bad habits looking for a quick fix. i suggest you do soem actuall reseach before spreading lies and half truths all over the net, even if your intentions are good.

I watched the Camelot video and have been taking 6000 IU of D3 every day. It isn't toxic in that form. You could take 6000 three times per day with no danger. It needs to build up in the body. Haven't been sick one time this year. I never get sick more than a few days anyway with all the alternative methods I use. They don't have a strong enough cop that could hold me down for a flu shot.

My moods are much better. People with dark skin need more of it as their skin pigment is designed for more sunny areas.

Very inexpensive at Swansons Health Products.

Vitamin D can't be broken down without Vitamin A, which needs vitamin C, which needs vitamin B complex along with other amino acids and enzymes to be useful.

Think of your body like dominoes. These dominoes exist everywhere in nature. In order to use each domino, you must first have the right tools to break it down and build it back up again inside your body. This goes for everything from iron and calcium, to more dense protein structures like soy or beef.

Take grass for instance. You could get your calcium and fiber from grass, but as humans, we don't have the proper enzyme structures to break down grass far enough, to where we can use it as building blocks with our own body. But grazing animals DO have these enzymes, and we have the proper tools to break down their protein structures, whether they are made from grass, seaweed, plankton, seeds, algae. As long as its made from the right dominoes, and you have the right tools, you can break it down.

You could eat 4 pounds of grass 3 times a day with every meal, or just cheat and have a glass of milk and a steak.


little known fact:
It takes 120 days for the human body to break down pasta.
It takes 30 days or less to break it down, if you eat pasta with olive oil.