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by gojomo 1837 days ago
"I'm betting, not just in this case, but the act of your body making it's own VitaminD creates benefits we are not yet aware - that oral consumption of a pill isn't going to compensate for."

We are already aware of a direct benefit: the skin's production of Vitamin D uses up bodily cholesterol. External supplementation doesn't do that.

(I agree there are likely others we'll document later.)

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Very good information.