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So let's talk about the evolution or the origin of vitamin D. It's quite fascinating.

Vital plankton has been on this planet for about, I don't know, 750 million years.

It's been unchanged and Vital plankton exposed itself to sunlight and makes vitamin D.

Now there's a compound in the environment called squalene.

It's an ancient molecule.

It's an oil that lives between rocks by the seashore, plants make it, animals make it,

but it's a precursor to cholesterol and steroid hormones.

Now I'm not going to get into the complex biochemistry of this,

but all you need to know is that that's like the raw material that eventually turns into

vitamin D because vitamin D comes from cholesterol.

Now originally, Vital plankton uses certain things from the sun's rays

to create different chemicals within the living organism itself.

And one of the problems way back on this planet is that we didn't have an ozone layer.

So back then, without the protection of the ozone layer, there was quite a bit of damage

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