| ▲ | PaulHoule 4 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
It's arguable whether Vitamin D is really a vitamin or a hormone, see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33549285/ Look at the molecular structure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D that's a freakin' steroid with one of the bonds in the rings deleted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | brandonb 4 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
It's pretty well-established science now that vitamin D is a hormone, not a true vitamin. Vitamin D binds a nuclear receptor that regulates roughly 1,000 to 2,000 genes (5-10% of the human genome). The "Vitamin D" moniker has just stuck around since it was named in 1922. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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