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Vitamin D is also known as calciferol. It’s used in healthy bodies to keep calcium levels in your blood high, protecting the reserves stored in your bones. It’s also needed in your body for creating and maintaining healthy bones and teeth.
Vitamin D is produced by your metabolism when sun’s rays come into contact with your skin. Cod Liver Oil is one supplement – among others – which can help give a boost to Vitamin D levels, although egg yolks, oily fish and dairy products do also contain Vitamin D.
Vitamin D is needed for the development of healthy bones and teeth in childhood and in later years.