We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
if we give someone a vitamin B pill they're not gonna go in the Sun they're not going to remember they need to go in the Sun they're not gonna understand that the Sun has benefits independent of a vitamin D pill
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vitamin d pills are not enough yes taking a vitamin d supplement can be beneficial if you live in a place that doesn't get a good amount of sunlight for part of the year but what about all the other benefits of the sun that you can replace with a vitamin d pill
to say that you can simply take sunlight in a pill with vitamin D I believe this is really false you're missing these other benefits of ultraviolet light
So here's an argument to say, well, we're engineered to get out in the sun and there must be benefits from it. And the issue I think that you posed is how much of the benefit is vitamin D? Then the shakiness of that argument is that, well, you supplement vitamin D, you don't seem to get all of the benefit one would think.