In the past decade, a focus of research has been done on how Vitamin D deficiency can contribute to people experiencing chronic musculoskeletal pain symptoms. As opposed to the majority of other vitamins that are primarily supplied by dietary intake, the main source of Vitamin D for humans is sunlight exposure. In some individuals reducing the exposure to sunlight by factors. There in lies the issue on one hand we avoiding sunburn and it may also contributing to keeping some individuals in pain. Certainly, the literature supports the fact that Vitamin D levels are deficient in the general population worldwide. This is referred to as hypovitaminosis (Cashman et al. 2016).
Obviously in our health-conscious society great focus has been placed on taking steps to prevent skin cancer and rightly so. Skin cancer has been directly linked to sun exposure and frequent sunburns, a number of methods have arisen to reduce these factors: high SPF level sunblock, avoiding direct sunlight exposure, etc.
