"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 i

"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.)