Another story linking vitamin D deficiencies to all sorts of medical conditions, this time in babies and young children: Call for Vitamin D infant death probe. It says “Vitamin D is actually a hormone” – is it? Or a hormone precursor? It is closely involved in the regulation of calcium in the body, which accounts for the bone effects, but what else does calcium do? My exceptionally rusty undergraduate physiology is now 15 years old and fading fast.
I’m going to be eating more oily fish, eggs and dairy, and running around in the sunshine a bit more. I’m still curious as to whether synthetic vitamin D, as found in fortified cereals, is the same as vitamin D found in food. Which is more effective, or is there no difference?
