You were probably wondering when I would address something that directly affects you. If you are like most people, you haven’t slept well in years, and maybe decades. If you watch TV, you see that businessmen have figured this out as a huge percentage of the ads promote substances to Read more…
So far, we have covered some of the basics of vitamin D3 and one of the three primary areas it affects us is sleep. Another effect is on metabolism. As a hormone, when vitamin D3 is low it signals to the body that food is scarce and we need to Read more…
Topical media speaks about the recent findings of male sperm counts dropping in westernized countries to half of what they were a decade ago. The implication is the reduced fertility rates which are more important as they too have been dropping. What does this mean? People who are trying to Read more…
What is the Madison-HannaH Effect? It is the name I have given to all the processes that the body activates once there is an optimal blood level of vitamin D3. It’s when there is more than enough to meet the body’s needs to assure adequate blood calcium levels to prevent Read more…
In a previous post I explained how vitamin D3 is a hormone. However, it is grouped with other substances called fat-soluble vitamins and this has caused many people to avoid it. In medical school during the minimal time (two minutes!) that professors dedicated to teaching us about vitamins they lumped Read more…