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…
Influenza, the flu, is a seasonal viral disease. Its seasonal nature has been inaccurately attributed primarily to: 1) People are in closer contact in the winter because they are inside more, and 2) It is colder. Colder winters is a reason that has been disproved. We have heaters in our Read more…
I define the Winter Syndrome as: The diseases caused by the inadequate and prolonged deficiency of vitamin D3 that most of us are or were experiencing. Vitamin D3 acts in three main areas: • Metabolism • Immune function • Sleep The current recommended blood levels of 30 ng/ml are inadequate. Read more…
Most people know vitamin D as the vitamin food producers put in our milk that is important for bone health. Why? Its primary function is to maintain blood calcium levels and contribute to bone health. This is especially true for children. It was the lack of adequate blood levels of Read more…
Today is the first blog post in the new series The Two-minute Health Fact*, discussing vitamin D3, a substance that is critical to our health but missing in many of us. It is called a vitamin, but is a hormone. The reason it is not a vitamin is the body Read more…