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When Vitamin D Isn't Sunshine in a Bottle
When Vitamin D Isn’t Sunshine in a Bottle
Vitamin D is sold as bottled sunshine. Social media says it boosts immunity, prevents cancer, and makes you live longer. But science says something very different — and megadoses pushed by influencers like Dr. Eric Berg can do more harm than good. Here’s what you need to know.
☀️ The Sunshine Vitamin — and the Myth That Follows
Vitamin D has been called the sunshine vitamin for over a century.
We discovered it when children in industrial cities developed rickets — bones so soft they bent like rubber.
The cure wasn’t pills. It was sunlight and milk…
The skinny
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