Are you blissfully happy to soak in the sun through the rolled up window of your car and think that the warm, peeking sun is blessing you with glorious beams of vitamin D?
Sorry to pop your bubble but you’re highly mistaken.
For starters, the sun doesn’t give you vitamin D; your body manufactures it when certain wavelengths of sunlight, the ultraviolet-B rays (UVB) activate a chemical called 7-dehydrocholesterol within your skin.
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that behind all aches and pains there is a deficiency. Well, mostly. Several studies have proved that in our metropolitan cities vitamin D deficiency is the latest epidemic - nearly 85% people in urban India have this deficiency and most of them don’t even realise it.
So if you’ve been waking up tired, have knees that creak and dealing with unexplained aches, are always PMS-ing but soaking up the rays of the sun through a glass window - you might feel the warmth of sunlight but it’s totally deceiving. The component of sunlight needed to produce vitamin D is getting blocked through the glass.