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Of course some believe that Vitamin D is a substance only required to prevent rickets, while others have assigned it all kinds of different roles so they would
by jrumbut 6y ago
Of course some believe that Vitamin D is a substance only required to prevent rickets, while others have assigned it all kinds of different roles so they would be unlikely to accept absence of rickets as a standard.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> Of course some believe that Vitamin D is a substance only required to prevent rickets, while others have assigned it all kinds of different roles The phrasing there is a little weird. Conceptually you wouldn't expect Vitamin D to have the function "preventing rickets", in the same way that the function of Vitamin C is not "preventing scurvy". Vitamin C does several things, and the different failures of those different things manifest as different symptoms of scurvy. Scurvy is what happens when you don't have enough Vitamin C, as rickets is what happens when you don't have enough Vitamin D.
- VMG 6y agoRickets is one of the things that can happen if you don't have enough Vitamin D. Other less obvious things can happen as well.
- treeman79 6y agoMigraines and autoimmune issues are related heavily to Vit D.
- hanslub42 6y ago> [...] the function of Vitamin C is not "preventing scurvy" Ironically, its scientific name, "ascorbic acid" means precisely that: no-scurvy (a-scorbic) acid