It's been a well known fact that most people are vit D deficient due to the advent of TV and video games. Adults and kids spend little time in the sun anymore, plus crappy diets, unlike our grandparents, who tended animals and gardens and owned farms. I read a book 20 yrs ago by a doctor who was curing all kinds of people's ills with vit…
It's been a well known fact that most people are vit D deficient due to the advent of TV and video games. Adults and kids spend little time in the sun anymore, plus crappy diets, unlike our grandparents, who tended animals and gardens and owned farms. I read a book 20 yrs ago by a doctor who was curing all kinds of people's ills with vit D. I remember one story that a lady came to him because another doctor wanted to remove her thyroid but she didn't want to take lifelong thyroid drugs. He cured her with vit D (maybe diet, etc, too, but the focus of the book was on Vit D).
Mitochondrial melatonin, which we produce more of in response to Near Infrared light, which we can get from sunlight, fully clothed, in the shade (it reflects off leaves), is also an immune-boosting factor. This hasn't been well-known as long as the benefits of vitamin D.
It *may* be that supplementing with vitamin D will work a lot better if you also step outside every so often, even staying in the shade of trees. That is, the D and the melatonin may be synergistic. More research is needed.
It's been a well known fact that most people are vit D deficient due to the advent of TV and video games. Adults and kids spend little time in the sun anymore, plus crappy diets, unlike our grandparents, who tended animals and gardens and owned farms. I read a book 20 yrs ago by a doctor who was curing all kinds of people's ills with vit D. I remember one story that a lady came to him because another doctor wanted to remove her thyroid but she didn't want to take lifelong thyroid drugs. He cured her with vit D (maybe diet, etc, too, but the focus of the book was on Vit D).
Mitochondrial melatonin, which we produce more of in response to Near Infrared light, which we can get from sunlight, fully clothed, in the shade (it reflects off leaves), is also an immune-boosting factor. This hasn't been well-known as long as the benefits of vitamin D.
It *may* be that supplementing with vitamin D will work a lot better if you also step outside every so often, even staying in the shade of trees. That is, the D and the melatonin may be synergistic. More research is needed.