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When standing in sunlight, what vitamin does your body synthesize ?

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Vitamin D is what your body synthesizes by the sun.
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There's good reason why vitamin D is called “the sunshine vitamin.” When your skin is exposed to sunlight, it makes vitamin D from cholesterol. The sun's ultraviolet B (UVB) rays hit cholesterol in the skin cells, providing the energy for vitamin D synthesis to occur.

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