What actually are vitamin supplements? How can a vitamin which we can get from sunlight be recreated or captured in a powdery pill? Are vitamin supplements synthetic, or “real” products from nature?

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What actually are vitamin supplements? How can a vitamin which we can get from sunlight be recreated or captured in a powdery pill? Are vitamin supplements synthetic, or “real” products from nature?

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This varies a lot between different vitamins. They are not all the same. It sounds like you are talking about vitamin D. Humans are not the only ones who make vitamin D, almost all animals do. It is particularly plentiful in fish liver, sheep skin and in some yeast. We can extract the enzymes responsible of synthesizing vitamin D in these places and then feed them the starting compounds and shine bright UV lights at them and they will produce lots of vitamin D.

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