![]() ![]() Either way, it’s always been there and we’re the ones coming up with these silly names. ![]() Vitamin D deficiency caused rickets, and replacing the vitamin cured the disease. If we remember our Garden of Lies article, we discussed how most vitamins were discovered (and are best served) by curing diseases of deficiency. The reason we believe it’s a vitamin is because we discovered the compound, the story goes, first from a disease of deficiency. When one organ of the body creates a compound that is transported via the blood to other organs where it acts to increase or decrease that organ’s function, we call that compound a hormone. Specifically, the skin contains a Vitamin D precursor that is activated by sun exposure. It’s a hormone.Ī vitamin is defined as a chemical we need for body processes that come from the diet, since we can’t synthesize it on our own. My favorite thing to tell people about Vitamin D is that Vitamin D isn’t what we think it is. ![]()
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