Print. Choline is a vitamin-like nutrient, and in health-food stores and on the Internet many claims are made for its potential benefits. The National Academy of Sciences designated choline as âessentialâ and suggested specific daily intakes in 1998.
You see, one of the forms of vitamin D, i.e. vitamin D2 is broken down by the body into different substances. Some of these substances can be very harmful for the body. Vitamin D3 is broken down by the body into a substance called calcitrol, which actually has very important cancer fighting properties.
Hormones need receptors in the body to perform their magic. The receptors for vitamin D3 are called simply vitamin D receptors (VDR). So regardless of how much Vitamin D3 we take in, if it can't find receptors, it just floats around in the blood with deceptively high D3 blood level counts. Cortisol is also a hormone.