Fwd: [WS-Forum] vitamin D?

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> (from mercola.com)

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> P.S. If you think nephrologists know the difference between vitamin D

> and

> calcitriol, read this month's paper from some nephrologists at the

> University of Texas. They discuss the importance of vitamin D in

> preventing

> and treating heart disease. (I think adequate vitamin D nutrition may

> prevent more cardiovascular deaths than cancer deaths.) However, I

> read the

> Texas paper three times and still don't know if the authors know the

> difference between vitamin D and calcitriol. I hope they know the

> difference

> between cholesterol and testosterone. (Some cholesterol is metabolized

> into

> steroid hormones, vitamin D is a prehormone; testosterone is a steroid

> hormone, calcitriol is the most potent steroid hormone in the human

> body).

>

> Kidney

> <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?

> cmd=Retrieve & db=pubmed & dopt=A

> bstract & list_uids=15882312 & query_hl=6> Int Suppl. 2005

> Jun;(95):S37-42.

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