Vitamin d

... understanding of white-skin origin is that after diverging from african populations, northern populations lost pigment in a selective response to vitamin deficiency. ?? It is also my understanding that "black" people are also a divergence from the evolutionary predecessors, who were ...

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Copper is an element not a complex molecule like a vitamin, and unless you are a star or a fusion nuclear reactor, no synthesis of elements de novo is possible. That is why nobody actually cares to point that out.

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... But why? I think it's just another symptom of what is really wrong. I am now seeing an Endocrinologist. He is testing me for Cushing's, Vitamin D deficiency, and checking for possible allergies to dyes, found in many prescription drugs, foods and juice-like drinks. I am shocked to read ...

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... role in the diet to fibre, making potatoes less fattening than many suppose. Potatoes also contain a whole heap of valuable nutrients, from vitamin C up. The United Nations declared 2008 to be the Year of the Potato, and for good reason. Corn is full of good fibre. Just avoid adding saturated ...

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After checking the link and wikiing the important words, I've found that it is the Vitamin D that does something to the intestines that increases calcium absorption or something along those lines. Would this be accurate? Also, you mentioned a chemical reaction that ...

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