Vitamin D, a panoply for health defense

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Vitamin D, a panoply for health defense

Dr. Frixos O. Goussis

Special to The National Herald

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Dr. Frixos O. Goussis MD,FACP,FACE. A Professor of medicine and Senior Attending physician at St Francis Hospital Heart center in Great Neck, NY, Dr. Goussis explains about the health benefits of Vitamin D in this special article for TNH

Vit D is a collection of fat soluble steroids, the 2 dominant forms of which are vitamins D2(ergo calciferol) and D3(cholecalciferol). Vitamin D2 is manufactured by invertebrates and plants after exposure to ultraviolet radiation. Vitamin D3 is naturally present in a small range of foods and is also made endogenously in the skin when 7-dehydrochol