{"id":409861,"date":"2026-03-29T10:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/409861\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T10:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:48:08","slug":"how-to-get-vitamin-d-from-sunlight-food-supplements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/409861\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Get Vitamin D From Sunlight, Food &#038; Supplements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vitamin D is an essential nutrient. But it&#8217;s rare to get enough of it from food and sunshine alone without being very intentional. In fact, research has shown that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5579642\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5579642\/\" data-citation-link=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">93<\/a><a href=\"#citations\" data-citation-number=\"1\">1<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3174857\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3174857\/\" data-citation-link=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">100%<\/a><a href=\"#citations\" data-citation-number=\"2\">2<\/a> of Americans fail to consume just 400 IU from their diet each day, and many experts say 5,000 IU per day is needed for optimal health. Further, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/29644951\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/29644951\/\" data-citation-link=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">almost half the population<\/a><a href=\"#citations\" data-citation-number=\"3\">3<\/a> in the U.S. is insufficient in the sunshine vitamin (considering all inputs from sun, diet, etc.!), which just really isn&#8217;t great news for our overall health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vitamin D is an essential nutrient. But it&#8217;s rare to get enough of it from food and sunshine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[277],"tags":[18,135,19,17,38951,508,11699],"class_list":["post-409861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mbgsupplements","tag-nutrition","tag-vitamin-d"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}