General

Here's something that doesn't make sense: The United Arab Emirates gets roughly 3,500 hours of sunshine every year. That's nearly ten hours of brilliant, unfiltered sunlight every single day. And yet, studies suggest that somewhere between 60 to 80 percent of people living in the Gulf region are vitamin D deficient. In a place where the sun is so relentless that construction workers are legally required to stop at midday, where summer temperatures routinely breach 45 degrees Celsius, we have a vitamin D crisis. How is this possible? The answer, it turns out, tells us something profound about the gap between what seems obvious and what's actually true and about how modern life in the Middle East has created a peculiar biological problem that almost nobody sees coming...

Discover why vitamin D deficiency is common in the UAE, how it affects energy, immunity, and bone health, and when and how to take vitamin D3 safely (evidence-based recommendations).