| ▲ | brandonb 4 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
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. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | infinite_spin 4 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Yeah, it's just a holdover, the term "vitamin" originated from "vital amine", and vitamin D doesn't even have an amine group | |||||||||||||||||
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