Vitamin D[own] – The Weird Side of the Internet
By Staff on May 28, 2025
Vitamin D[own] – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.
Beauty makes us do crazy things. Medically, I mean: medically crazy things. Think of the wild west snake oil salesmen just raiding garbage, distilling it, and selling it for a face cream. Or drops to make a woman’s corneas bright. And by no means is it just women. Piles of protein powder in health food stores taunt men who were long on the mouth on January 1st, but short on recollection come February.
But some things, you just shouldn’t do for vanity.
A 48 year-old Chinese woman was rushed to XinDu Traditional Medicine Hospital in ChengDu with a bone fracture. This doesn’t normally lead to rushing to the hospital, but she did it rolling in bed. And when they got her there, they found her Vitamin D levels hitting the floor. The reason was actually too much of a good thing.
Sunscreen is an amazing invention that has saved countless people from melanoma as a result of exposure to the sun’s radiation. But we do need the sun in order to produce Vitamin D, which, if you slather all of your exposed body in sunscreen, you won’t get. And this woman apparently was not getting any sun at all.
This could have been just an accidental exposure. Maybe the woman had never been outside before, and didn’t know how to prepare. But we all go outside every day; it’s not a big learning curve. Just walk around, get street corn and don’t paint yourself in SPF 120. So long story short, I’m not seeing an ordinary reason to end up breaking bones in bed.
So, beauty? Ivory skin. Vanity? I’m not sure how die-hard people in China are about making one thing your whole personality, but if it’s anything like here, ivory skin is probably some huge viral thing, and this woman’s not even the worst case.
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