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5 vitamin D thieves and how to protect yourself (slideshow)
3. Your age
Research suggests that as you get older, your body’s ability to soak up vitamin D gets less efficient. For example, a person over the age of 70 produces 30 percent less vitamin D than a younger person with the same amount of sun exposure. That’s because older people have lower levels of the substance in their skin that turns the precursor to vitamin D into actual vitamin D your body can use.
So if you’re 65 or older, you’ll want to get more vitamin D than you did when you were younger, because you need even more than ever: insufficient D leads to dementia.
