Ben, we tend to think of vitamin D as simply a vitamin, but you often describe it as more of a hormone or chemical messenger.
Why is that distinction important when we're talking about what vitamin D actually does in the body?
It's kind of weird when you think about it that we actually have hormones in the body that you have to eat that you can't actually, that you can't make.
Imagine if you had, say, thyroid hormone and you couldn't make thyroid hormone and you had to eat it.
Ben, we tend to think of vitamin D as simply a vitamin, but you often describe it as more of a hormone or chemical messenger.
Why is that distinction important when we're talking about what vitamin D actually does in the body?
It's kind of weird when you think about it that we actually have hormones in the body that you have to eat that you can't actually, that you can't make.
Imagine if you had, say, thyroid hormone and you couldn't make thyroid hormone and you had to eat it.
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