Since alliteration helps us to remember connections, we're lucky that diabetes, depression, and the D vitamin all start with the same letter. We aren't lucky that diabetes and depression are so closely connected, as I wrote in my essay on "Diabetes and Depression" here a year ago. But we're in luck that vitamin D might treat both conditions, killing two birds with one stone, as our less technologically powerful ancestors used to say.
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