UK Needs Higher Daily Vitamin D Supplement Doses To Achieve Immunity Effects

Current UK government guidelines on vitamin D supplementation (400IU or 10mcg vitamin D a day) are too low to achieve immunity boosting effects, says UK expert and University of Birmingham scientist Martin Hewison. 

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Just as things were looking up for British consumers, with the UK’s medicines agency approving the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine, a new highly infectious strain of the coronavirus has plunged the country back into another strict national lockdown.

Predicted to continue at least into March, the new lockdown will make it even harder for people in the UK to get enough sunlight to top up their levels of vitamin D, a much misunderstood hormone that regulates the body’s calcium and

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