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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We don’t get vitamin from the sun, sun just encourages our body to produce the vitamin. Sun is just energy.

There are other ways to encourage your body, and also just produce something similar in a lab. Vitamin D, for example, is often produced from wool, processed heavily.