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Episode: #102 - The "Vitamin D" Conundrum: When a Vitamin Is Actually a Hormone (Part I) | Dr. Stasha Gominak (Grüner Veltliner)
Description: Send a textWhy don’t the clinical trials agree with the science?During the COVID epidemic “vitamin” D became front-page news. Because low “vitamin” D levels were associated with poor COVID outcomes most of us now recognize that D is not just a ‘’bone vitamin” but plays an important role in many parts of our body, especially our immune systems. This increased interest in D has also revealed an important mismatch between 80 years of scientific study of ‘’hormone’’ D and D’s use in routine medical practice. Over the last 50 years “vitamin” D deficienc...