Ep 113 Vitamin D: The D stands for drama

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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There is no shortage of ailments that vitamin D has been claimed to prevent or cure - various types of cancers, heart disease, COVID-19, diabetes, an assortment of autoimmune conditions, just to name a few. What is it about this micronutrient that leads people to behold it as a panacea? In this episode, we sift through what we know about the biology of vitamin D, along with what happens when you don’t have enough of it, in an attempt to discern what might be overhype and what might be underhype when it comes to vitamin D and health claims. And there certainly is ample reason for excitement over this micronutrient, as its deep, deep evolutionary history reveals just how many biological processes in which vitamin D is intimately and vitally involved. The consequences of vitamin D deficiency form a large part of its human history, as soaring rates of rickets during the Industrial Revolution drew the interest of researchers intent on pinpointing the cause of this disease. As is typical for this podcast, the more we know, the more questions we have, like “who decided what counts as deficiency?”, “how much vitamin D should people be getting?”, and “what is vitamin D really telling us?”. Tune in for plenty of sunshine, cod liver oil, and drama over vitamin D.

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0:00.0	I'm Kara Clank.
0:01.0	And I'm Lisa Trigger.
0:02.6	We're comedians and hosts of That's Messed Up, an SVU podcast on exactly right.
0:07.4	Every Tuesday we take you through an episode of Law and Order SVU, the crime it's based
0:11.2	on and chat with celebs guests from the episode.
0:13.7	Listen to That's Messed Up on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
0:18.7	podcasts.
0:19.7	This is Justin from The Generation Why, and we're doing a four-part series unraveling
0:24.2	the story of Khalif Browder, a young boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held
0:29.1	at Rikers Island for three years without trial.
0:32.2	This story is about a young life caught in the middle of the Justice System.
0:36.3	Listen to Generation Why on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:40.1	This particular illness started in late December 2015, and the first thing I noticed was some
0:46.9	unexplained weight loss, which I only noticed because I had had any illness about six years
0:51.6	prior that also started with some weight loss.
0:54.4	And so I was a little bit worried, but I felt fine so far.
0:57.3	But then a few days after that, I started getting really, really thirsty.
1:02.7	And it started with just a really dry throat, but before long, it became a really deep thirst.
1:10.9	And I just returned from a family visit.
1:13.3	So one friend suggested that maybe I was dehydrated from being on the plane, but it didn't go
1:19.0	away no matter how much I drank.
1:21.3	I started keeping track of how much I drank.
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