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delecti
27 days ago
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Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds ...
And humans aren't dogs.
wongarsu
27 days ago
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Most definitions of the word vitamin are not specific to humans. Wikipedia talks about "organisms", Britannica about "higher animal life", Webster about "most animals and some plants"
lxgr
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What is and isn't a vitamin by definition varies from species to species.
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