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At a checkup a few years ago, a doctor told me I was deficient in vitamin D. But he wouldn’t write me a prescription for supplements, simply because, as he put it, everyone in the UK is deficient.

Vitamin D appears to influence our immune health, too. Studies have found a link between low vitamin D levels and incidence ...