The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
It's really more a hormone than a vitamin. But it's a steroid hormone, just like estrogen. And the nice thing about these steroid hormones is they bind to a receptor, which goes to the DNA and recognizes 12 bases in the DNA, the 6 bases, 3 base spacer, and then another 6 bases.
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if you look at the structure of vitamin D, it is very similar to the structure of cortisol, of the structure of testosterone, of estrogen, of progesterone.
so so nuclear hormones you know we have steroid hormones nuclear steroid hormones I should say sorry so we have estrogen testosterone vitamin D is one so these are these are binding to a receptor that you know in some cases the receptor complexes with other ones it goes into the nucleus of a cell which is where all the DNA is and it goes down to the level of genes and it regul recognizes a little sequence of genes