There are some things you, as a family member of a band flight Airman, will need to know when you come to Lackland AFB for graduation week. We have listed a summary of how some ceremonies may be different for you and your Airman during graduation events.
Active vitamin D works by entering cells and attaching to a protein called the vitamin D receptor, located in the nucleus of cells, where the genetic material is located. This combination of calcitriol and its receptor stimulates the cell to make proteins that regulate the way the body works.
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.