[gnicholas]

I thought it was a very helpful article — and it made clear that what happened to this patient will not necessarily happen to everyone. It informed me that vitamin D is a hormone (I did not know that!), and that there are things to monitor if you are taking a bunch of it. I have family members who take calcium and vitamin D, and I will ask them if they monitor these things.

It would be bad if this article pretended this patient's experience was the norm, but it didn't. It provided information about what can happen and advocated for people being more circumspect about a particular vitamin/hormone.