Daily Archives: March 27, 2017

Vitamin D and Cancer: More Evidence of A Protective Effect

Vitamin D is not actually a vitamin, but a steroid hormone. The traditional role for vitamin D was seens as regulating calcium homeostasis, whereby increased circulating levels of the vitamin D metabolite 25-hydroxyvitamin D increased the intestinal absorption of calcium. … Continue reading

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