Me and all my indian friends are deficient in vitamin D . I dont know how those number were calibrated. surely not on Indian population.
It's when those people go to northern latitudes that the inefficiency starts to matter.
yes in south india
I think it would be somewhat unsurprising if we find that genes that evolved for one climate are not ideal when migrated to another climate. Especially when we live much longer lives and these kinds of issues are much more relevant to our expected quality of life (ie. how would you know you're vitamin D deficient when you're a peasant who is everything deficient?) Which is all me just saying, I wouldn't be surprised if vitamin D deficiency, which is directly related to sunlight exposure, is a prevalant issue now that humans migrate so much more freely than ever before.