It’s the holiday season and many of us are running on overdrive, rushing from store to store with credit cards in hand—or maybe you’re conveniently ordering from Amazon and staying in your footed pajamas.

Vitamin D is most commonly synthesized by our bodies when exposed to sunlight, hence its nickname – the sunshine vitamin. However, living in Ohio or anywhere above the equator tends to lessen our natural abundance. Vitamin D is very important and must be supplemented into our diets.