Vitamin D prevents cognitive decline too....….

Today's post: Thursday, 2-5-2009

There still is a book called SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life by Steven G. Pratt. MD et al.

Other than the soy foods section which is likely quite wrong according to many sources, this is otherwise a great book with superb advice. There are also other legitimate SuperFood candidates he leaves out.

But these foods either support your health so well OR in so many important ways all at once, it’s clear they deserve to be called SuperFoods.

It now looks as if vitamin D3 not only deserves the title of SuperNutrient, it may even qualify to be Number ONE in that category!

Yesterday, Weds, 2-4-2009, in the Early to Rise email, for its health article of the day, they had an article that listed just a few of the documented benefits we now know an intake of 2,000 iu a day or a bit more of vitamin D3 each day has and then added the incredibly good news that this intake of Vitamin D3 help prevent mental decline too!

Here’s the article.: (I’ll add my comments after it as I often do.)

“This article appears courtesy of Early To Rise, a free newsletter dedicated to making money, improving health and secrets to success. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com .”

“Keep Your Brain Young with This Vitamin

By Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS

If you've been reading ETR for any length of time, you probably already know at least a half-dozen reasons why you should be taking a vitamin D supplement. Bone health. Mood improvement. Physical performance. Vitamin D's demonstrated anti-cancer effects. And if all that weren't enough, a new study adds another benefit: cognitive performance.

In the study, to be published in the Journal of Geriatric Psychology and Neurology, researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Michigan report an association between the risk of cognitive impairment in older folks and low levels of vitamin D.

More than 1,750 men and women 65 years or older were given neurocognitive tests. The testing revealed that 212 of the participants had cognitive impairment. The researchers then compared the vitamin D levels of those without cognitive impairment to those with cognitive impairment - and found that the risk of impairment significantly increased as vitamin D levels declined.

In fact, participants whose vitamin D levels were in the lowest 25 percent of the group had a whopping 2.28 times greater risk of cognitive impairment than those whose levels were in the top 25 percent. Since cognitive impairment is a major risk factor for developing dementia, anything you can do to lower your risk can help protect your brain for the long haul.

The best way to get adequate levels of vitamin D is through sun exposure. That means getting outside for about 10 to 20 minutes a day, three times a week - more often in the winter. I also personally recommend vitamin D supplements, about 1,000 to 2,000 IU daily. You can find vitamin D supplements at any health food store, even at Walmart.

[Ed. Note: For more information about natural methods that can improve your health - and help keep your weight down - check out nutrition expert Jonny Bowden's website, JonnyBowden.com.

Sunshine and vitamin D not only contribute to keeping your brain young, they can have a positive effect on everything from cancer and diabetes to athletic performance and neonatal health…..]”

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I found that www.JonnyBowden.com did get to his website OK.

I’ve only a few points to add.

1. In case you didn’t know it already, the mood improvement of taking vitamin D3 (or taking even 20 minute walks near Noon time if you have time and a safe place to walk) in the winter is to combat the lack of vitamin D from sun exposure during the rest of the day. Taking 2,000 iu or 3,000 iu or a bit more vitamin D3 daily seems to help prevent or nearly eliminate SAD, a kind of depression cause by this lack of sunlight. So taking vitamin D3 for mood improvement works best during the darker days in Winter.

2. Second, since the old RDA for vitamin D was 400 iu, if that’s all you knew, you’d think that 2,000 to 3,000 or even 5,000 iu of vitamin D3 is a lot. So it’s extremely important to know that it’s been found that your body will use 2,000 to 3,000 iu of vitamin D each day if it’s available and that your body will make something like 15,000 to 20,000 iu a day from sun exposure during the summer if you are outside much at all. That means that 2,000 to 5,000 iu of vitamin D3 daily as a supplement, particularly in the 2,000 to 3,600 iu range is actually quite reasonable. In addition, you might well wonder if your body prefers to use 2,000 to 3,000 iu vitamin D each day if it’s available if your body might not be a bit short on less. The research is in fact beginning to show that for best health, on multiple factors, your body very probably DOES need 2,000 to 3,000 iu of D3 a day. To put it bluntly, that means any RDA, for vitamin D of less than 2,000 iu a day is too low and based on outdated information.

3. Third, the same immune system boost from vitamin D that is thought to be responsible for it helping to prevent ALL cancers also will help you avoid getting colds and flu in the winter and from getting worse things such as pneumonia, secondary chest infections from colds or flu, and, even according to one study I saw, tuberculosis if you are exposed to it.

So to me that means that anyone who knows the current info on vitamin D and who wants to be and to stay in good health should be taking at least 2,000 iu a day of vitamin D3. When a bottle of 100 capsules of 1,000 iu of vitamin D3 only costs about $6, it is easily affordable.

4. Lastly, it IS possible that some of the good effects attributed to vitamin D are from the fact that being outside in pleasant natural surroundings or exercising regularly while outside.

So, don’t stop at just taking vitamin D. Regular exercise has an even longer and overlapping health benefits list than vitamin D. As we’ve posted on not that long ago, regular exercise prevents mental and cognitive decline too and in multiple ways. By all means do regular exercise too – even if it’s inside.

Lastly, there was a study that found that even in less affluent neighborhoods, people who live near parks live longer and have better health than people who don’t. So if you live near a park that is safe to visit, go walk around it occasionally. You’ll get some exercise, may relive some stress, and if you do it in daylight, you’ll get some extra vitamin D too.

Natural antidepressants new & old....

Today's post: Friday, 2-22-2008

Here are the three new ones:

Recently, I did a post with the information that short sessions of vigorous exercise and taking 2,000 to 3,000 iu or a bit more each day of vitamin D have each been shown to be effective in fighting the winter blues, also known as SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder.

I really think well of these two methods as natural antidepressants. In today’s times many people get very little exercise & not much sunlight, even in the summer for some of us.

So these two methods clearly cure deficiencies for many people -- which may explain their effectiveness.

1. I particularly like the one that a short session of vigorous exercise works to make you feel better.

The most important reason is that it’s fast. You can do a session in 5 to 10 minutes which makes it a LOT easier to do in a busy life than an hour walk. I’ve taken an hour walk as exercise when I was depressed which may have made me feel better later; but it felt boring and didn’t do much at all for my mood right then.

But of most importance, the promise of doing a short session of vigorous exercise is that you can literally feel better in 10 minutes from when you start.

To make it vigorous, you have to focus on doing it enough to shut off or turn down stressful or depressing thoughts. You sharply increase circulation & oxygen flow to your brain. You increase certain neurotransmitters. And, you feel the effects enough as you recover afterwards to also help distract you from bad thoughts.

2. Taking 2,000 to 3,000 iu or a bit more each day of vitamin D is also a favorite of mine as it is really inexpensive to do. It only costs $5 to $7 for 100 capsules of 1000 iu of vitamin D3, the effective form. And, it’s now established that it helps prevent colds and other illnesses by boosting your immune system. Plus, that same immune system boost apparently helps prevent autoimmune diseases & all kinds of cancer.

Valuewise, taking vitamin D is like getting top of the line luxury car value for five or six dollars a month.

So, I really think well of these two ways to shut down depression or just feeling a bit blue.

They’ve always worked. But it’s only recently become generally known that they do. Even better, they both have abundant health benefits in addition to helping you feel better.

3. However, what if you are depressed enough it’s really severe? For mild depression or even moderate depression, you may do well with just the first two methods.

But if you clearly need more, wouldn’t it be nice to have a natural way to feel better that worked as well as the drugs doctors now tend to prescribe but without the side-effects and addictive qualities?


Much to my great shock, this week I found out there IS one.:

I found the article below in my Early to Rise email earlier this week.:

(It appeared on Tuesday, 2-19-2008.)
This article appears courtesy of Early To Rise, the Internet’s most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com.

“The Spice That Makes You Smile

By Kelley Herring

The gentle waft of simmering bouillabaisse certainly puts a smile on my face. But the delightful aroma and taste isn't the only reason this dish can make you feel happy. In fact, one key ingredient could have as much mood-boosting benefits as a common anti-depressant.

Earlier research pointed to saffron, an ingredient in bouillabaisse, as a potential anti-depressant. And new research published in the journal Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry confirms this pricey spice's ability to alleviate the doldrums.

In the eight-week study, researchers compared saffron's anti-depressant activity to fluoxetine (the generic name for Prozac). Forty adults, meeting the criteria for major despair, participated. Group 1 patients received a capsule filled with 15 mg of saffron (C. sativus) morning and evening. Group 2 received 10 mg of fluoxetine morning and evening. At the end of the trial, researchers found that saffron had the same mood-boosting benefits as the drug.

So how much is 15 mg of saffron, anyway? That's less than a tenth of a teaspoon. Most saffron is sold by the gram, at about $15.

While you can season your paella or bouillabaisse with saffron, a good way to make this spice a mood-lifting mainstay in your diet is to mix it right into your favorite organic, chicken-based pre-made soups. Or brew a cup of Spicy Saffron Tea. Just add one teaspoon of saffron, four crushed cardamom pods, and three teaspoons of erythritol to four cups of boiling water. Steep for 20 minutes. Enjoy.

[Ed. Note: Kelley Herring is the founder and CEO of Healing Gourmet (www.healinggourmet.com), and is editor-in-chief of the Healing Gourmet book series..”

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Saffron is not cheap. But you clearly need very little to get the effect. So it might be doable.

Here are some natural ways to turn off depression that have been around for sometime.
1. Martin Seligman, PhD discovered something he called learned helplessness. He then decided to study the opposite.

The results were spectacular. And you can use his research to feel better. His book on it is called, “Learned Optimism.”

What he found is that people who are effective, sane, & proactive and are quite resistant to learned helplessness do is:

A) They tend to be very analytical, precisely accurate, and specific in thinking about bad things that happen. They look for the specific causes. They do NOT over-generalize that bad events will always happen or keep happening even if these specific causes are absent. Even better, they realize the causes are temporary and that it may be quite possible to cause the situation to improve. Their thinking about bad events is dramatically more accurate than the thinking of pessimists for these reasons. Educated people tend to be strong on this part of optimistic thinking.

B) They tend to take action to solve problems & to think of themselves as effective in solving problems. They think of good things as permanent and all encompassing & within their control to make happen. Interestingly, they do this even more than the facts of a situation would indicate. Often the people who are best at this are doers and street smart people.

The odds may be against them initially. And the solution they try first (or even second or third, etc) may not work. But they learn from what they try and often manage to achieve things that would otherwise be impossible. Their willingness to take action & be experimentally persistent, literally overcomes the statistical odds against them.

It’s worth learning to be good at these two factors. The depressions you feel will be rare and tend to be mild and of short duration if you do. And, research has established that people high in both factors also tend to be in better health, live longer, have more friends, & make more money than people who are low in them.

2. Early to Rise has spun off a weekly email called, Total Health Breakthroughs. It has additional & different health articles from those in Early to Rise.
Their email from this past Tuesday, 2-19-2008 had this Title:

Stop Suffering! How to Fight Depression Safely and Naturally

This lists many of the effective natural antidepressants that we’ve known about for a bit.

"This article appears courtesy of Early to Rise's Total Health Breakthroughs, offering alternative solutions for mind, body and soul. For a complimentary subscription,

visit http://www.totalhealthbreakthroughs.com"

Dealing with Depression? Try the Natural Route First


Consider this: You're lying on the couch, unable to motivate yourself enough to get up and get dressed. Everything seems pointless, hopeless, and dark. All you want to do is stare into space. There's a pill sitting on the coffee table a few feet in front of you that promises to make you feel 100 percent better and take your depression away.

And you can't muster the enthusiasm or energy to get up and get it.
That's the best -- and truest -- description of severe depression I've ever heard.
Depression is no picnic. Not only is it one of the greatest problems of our time, it's also potentially life threatening. Severe depression needs to be medically treated.

That said, many of us are suffering with what's called mild or moderate depression -- anything from "the blues" to a general feeling that some of the sparkle is gone from everyday life. For mild or even moderate depression, there are a number of natural remedies that are worth trying before going the pharmaceutical route. One of the best of those natural substances is 5-HTP.

The term 5-HTP stands for 5-hydroxytryptophan. It's the stuff out of which your body makes serotonin, one of the major players in a group of chemicals called neurotransmitters. These are chemicals that transmit information in the brain. Serotonin is known as a "feel-good" neurotransmitter -- low levels are associated with depression.

In fact, the biggest class of anti-depressant pharmaceuticals (SSRIs like Prozac) works by keeping serotonin hanging around the brain longer. In your body, the amino acid L-tryptophan converts to 5-HTP which then, with a little help from vitamin B6, turns it into serotonin.

Try 50 mg of 5-HTP three times a day and increase if necessary. A common dose for depression is 300 mg a day. Make sure you're getting enough vitamin B6 in your diet -- some of the better 5-HTP supplements (like 5-HTP Synergy) have some B6 built in.
St. John's Wort is a perennial herb with a long and honorable history of use for mild (or moderate) depression. It got some bad press in a loaded study1 back in 2002 which had the media gleefully proclaiming "St. Johns Wort is Ineffective." But what they didn't tell you was that the study tested the herb on people with severe depression who also didn't respond to even the strongest pharmaceutical drugs.
It's quite effective for mild depression. A meta-analysis in the British Medical
Journal2 reviewed 23 published trials on St. John's Wort involving more than 1,700 patients and found it effective for the treatment of mild and moderate depression.
The best preparations of St. John's Wort are standardized to contain 0.3 percent hypericin, and the recommended dose is 300 mg taken 3 times a day.

Then there's SAMe, arguably the most effective "natural" anti-depressant around, albeit one of the more pricey ones. About 70 percent of people with depression respond to SAMe according to Richard Brown, MD, author of Stop Depression Now. The best thing about it is that you'll know whether it's working within a week.

A common dose of SAMe for depression is 400 mg taken twice a day, though some people have taken up to 1600 mg. SAMe should be taken with B vitamins, and is not -- repeat not -- for people with bipolar disorder. SAMe usually comes in blister packs since it is highly sensitive to light and air.

Two other nutrients are also helpful for depression: fish oil and folic acid. Fish oil is currently being studied for its effects on mood. High doses (up to 10 grams a day) may produce a real effect, though many people will notice an improvement with as little as 2 to 3 grams a day.

Folic acid is also involved in mood, and high doses (5 grams or more) are absolutely worth a try. Since both folic acid and fish oil have other multiple benefits and are absolutely safe, they're worth adding to whatever natural treatment you're going to try.

If you're currently on an anti-depressant drug, do not just stop and switch to one of the "natural" treatments. Most antidepressants should be discontinued gradually and under the eye of a health-care provider. But if you haven't started on a drug yet, it makes a lot of sense to try the natural route first.

References

1. Hypericum Depression Trial Study Group. JAMA, 2002; 287:1807-1814.
2. British Medical Journal 1996 (Aug 3);313 (7052):253-258.

[Ed. note: Dr. Bowden is a nationally known expert on weight loss, nutrition and health. He's a board certified nutrition specialist with a Master's degree in psychology. Dr. Bowden is also a life coach, motivational speaker, former personal trainer and author of the award-winning book, Living the Low Carb Life.

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SAMe is expensive. I personally would try the other things first. And, St Johns Wort can reduce the effective dose of some drugs. But if you aren't taking drugs, it can be good. And, it's not expensive. 5htp can make you feel mellow and help you to go to sleep or get back to sleep. However, it might be less desirable to use in apart of your day when you need to be most alert and mentally vigorous.

I sincerely hope any of these methods you try work well for you.

Superb new way to beat the blues, winter or not…..

Today's post: Tuesday, 1-22-2008

Researchers have found that exercising regularly has all kinds of incredible benefits including turning off or turning down the blues or even moderate depression.

And, last Friday’s health article in the Early to Rise email has really powerful good news.

Doing even a few minutes almost every day of exercise where you periodically do several shorter bursts of considerably more vigorous or faster exercise works best to make you feel better.

Here’s why that’s such incredibly good news.

Walking for an hour is great exercise; but few people can manage to take the time to do that more often than once or twice a week. And, if you are depressed or feeling blue & find the walk boring, in my experience, that tends to blunt any positive effects on your mood.

But what this new finding means is that if you would like to feel a bit better, you can get the job done & done well in just 5 or 10 minutes.

You benefit 3 ways.

1. Most people can fit 5 minutes into their morning or take a 5 minute break later in the day & many can manage 10 minutes as well. That makes it doable.

2. When you have to focus mentally to manage the intensity or speed of your exercise & do bursts of faster or more vigorous exercise alternated with easier or slower & repeat several times, it’s easy to STOP focusing on how you feel or any reasons you have to feel bad. That alone temporarily shuts off feeling bad.

You brain has to help you set up & do moderately easy for a bit & then pretty hard or fast for a shorter time & repeat several times or do moderately easy for a bit & then pretty hard or fast for a shorter time & then a brief rest to recover & repeat several times. That means your mind is too busy to feel bad.

I’ve also noticed that this kind of exercise tends to make you feel able & capable when you do it. And, it tends to get your heart rate up without over-straining yourself since you get to go slower or take a few seconds break every so often.

3. Once you experience that this does help you feel better, you realize that you can & will feel better at least some in just a few minutes every time you do this kind of exercise.

That’s a nice combination indeed !!

Even better, separate research shows that doing this kind of exercise gets you into good aerobic shape faster than steady pace exercise; AND it also works better for fat loss than steady pace exercise.

Here’s where I found this new info myself that this kind of exercise also works better to make you feel better & brighten your mood.:

It was in last Friday’s, 1-21-2008, Early to Rise email & on their website.

This article appears courtesy of Early To Rise, the Internet’s most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com.

“Does Feeling Good Make You Exercise?

By Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., CNS

It's been established that exercise can enhance your mood. But does being in a good mood increase the likelihood that you'll exercise in the first place?

Researchers at Bowling Green University designed a study to answer that question. Thirty-six obese participants in a behavioral weight-loss program recorded their morning, evening, and pre- and post-exercise moods. They also recorded the type, duration, and intensity of their exercise. The findings were clear. People who recorded better moods in the morning were more likely to exercise that day.

If you find yourself feeling positive in the morning, grab the opportunity to exercise right then. It'll make you feel better for the rest of the day.

And while you're at it, up the intensity - even if just for 15 seconds every couple of minutes.

The researchers found that those who exercised more frequently and at greater intensity had the greatest increases in mood.

The highest mood ratings came from those participants who exercised the longest and at the highest intensities.

[Ed. Note: Dr. Jonny Bowden is a nationally known expert on weight loss, nutrition, and health. He's the author of the new book The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth. For more information, go to www.jonnybowden.com .”

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I put what I see as the two most important statements in bold for emphasis.

Here are my other comments.:

That that does mean that 10 or 15 minutes may do more for you than five.

But, remember these two things. They also found that the people who did this almost every day got the best results. And, it’s a lot easier to do a bit more once you get in the habit of doing even 5 minutes of this kind of exercise than it is to start off doing more. Even more importantly, knowing that even 5 minutes will help & doing it instead of waiting until you have 10 or more minutes makes it enormously more likely you’ll do it at all.

The other thing is that if you make doing it at home first thing in the morning a habit, you’ll start feeling better at the start of each day. You do NOT have to feel tip top to do the exercise when you begin. And, this research shows you will feel better when you are done.

Doing this will make you feel better & in more control of your life. And, separate studies have found that feeling in more control helps people feel better also.

Strength training with even light weights can work well for this. (If you lift a weight you can do 8 or 9 times, the first 3 or 4 are easy. Then, breathe out harder & focus increasing your effort a good bit on the last 3 or 4. That makes those last few seem easier. And, it also makes it easier to get to 10 or 11 times & make progress.

Doing a martial arts pattern exercise routine also can work well. Simply vary between moderately slow trying to do the form really well with just doing it as fast as you can for a few seconds once you know the patterns reasonably well.

You can also do this with walking. Simply walk at a normal pace for two minutes & then walk as fast as you can for 15 to 30 seconds. Then repeat the process for a total of 5 minutes (once more) or do four of these if you have 10 minutes, etc.

Another way is to use squats or knee bends as long as you only go down to where your thighs are parallel to the ground. (Going farther is too hard on your knees.) Because this one uses gravity, if you do 20 at moderate speed & then 7 really fast & repeat (with short rest breaks if you need them at first), you can begin to burn a good bit of calories in just 5 minutes.

Important note, with any of these be sure to start a little easier than your hardest effort until you have been doing the exercise for a couple of weeks.

And, if you get out of breath, stop for 5 or 10 seconds before you do the next round.

It’s safer that way. And, it also makes it easier to keep doing since you perceive that your effort is more under your control; & it doesn’t feel as hard. Paradoxically, that means you’ll actually make the fastest progress that way.

Lastly, in case you missed it in our earlier post, be sure to take at least 2,000 iu of vitamin D3 each day in the winter or if you rarely go outside in the summer. That has now been shown to turn off the winter blues as well as the light therapy or better.

Why not do both taking the vitamin D3 AND this kind of exercise? The research suggests strongly you’ll feel a lot better if you do.

Stop the winter blues (aka SAD)…..

Today's post: Thursday, 12-27-2007

1. In an earlier post, I wrote that a surprisingly effective way to stop the winter blues or turn down the winter blues is to take as little as a 10 minute walk at lunch time – or near Solar Noon.

The physical cause is lack of sunlight. And, even though our eyes may make cloudy or rainy, overcast weather look like there’s very little sun since they adjust to the light levels, light meters show there is many times more light outside on such days than it looks like they could possibly have to offer.

One man the writer Dale Carnegie wrote about went on a cruise where it rained every day. He took a short lunchtime walk anyway every day he was on the cruise. Everyone else got depressed. He did NOT.

The readings on the light meter show why it worked for him.

Walking has also been shown to turn down depression & bad moods even in the summertime as well. So you get a double effect.

So, if it’s safe for you to take such a walk where you live, give it a try.

2. But if it’s so cold or icy on the pavement it wouldn’t be safe – or – for even stronger protection, there’s a newly known & astoundingly easy thing you can add !!

Simply taking enough vitamin D not only works better to turn off the winter blues than the light box therapy that doctors have been prescribing, it offers many other health benefits.

One study estimates that taking 2,000 to 5,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 will prevent
77 % of all cancers. And, the immune system boost that likely does that for you also makes it less likely you’ll get colds, cases of the flu, & pneumonia. Not bad !!

It also helps that 1,000 iu supplements of D3 are quite inexpensive. Each capsule will cost you less than 6 or 7 cents.

Here’s an article on the subject that I wanted to pass along to you.:

Here’s a direct quote.: “In clinical trials, vitamin D has been shown to relieve depression more effectively than broad-spectrum light exposure.”

“ Got the Winter Blues? The Sun Will Make You Shine!

By Jon Herring

Do you get a little sadder in the winter, when darkness falls early and the sun is hidden in the clouds? If so, you're not alone. Seasonal changes cause more than 25 percent of the population to get the "winter blues" - technically known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

The symptoms include increased cravings for sweets and carbohydrates, longer sleep patterns, lethargy, fatigue, irritability, weight gain, insomnia, lowered motivation, and decreased sociability. In some cases, the long dark winter can even bring on full-blown clinical depression.

But there are several ways to prevent and treat this common condition:

• The best way to conquer SAD is to spend time outside in bright, natural sunlight. It's especially good to go out and play in the snow. There is a lower incidence of SAD in regions that get regular amounts of snow, probably because the snow reflects light.

• Phototherapy can also help lift your spirits in the winter. It involves exposing yourself to a light box that approximates the spectrum of daylight for 30 minutes to two hours a day.

• Most important, be sure to take a vitamin D supplement during the winter months. In clinical trials, vitamin D has been shown to relieve depression more effectively than broad-spectrum light exposure. In fact, in one study that compared vitamin D supplementation with the daily use of a light box for two hours, the symptoms of depression in the vitamin D group were resolved completely. Meanwhile, the phototherapy group saw no significant improvement.

If you're not able to spend time in the sun during the winter, you will need a good bit more vitamin D than the government's recommended daily allowance of 400 IU. Dr. John Cannell of the Vitamin D Council suggests 5,000 IU per day for adults during the winter months, and 1,000 to 2,000 IU per day for children. I don't know of any multivitamins that contain this much vitamin D, but Carlson's makes a convenient 2,000 IU soft gel that you can find …”

“By being proactive, you can fight back against seasonal depression and enjoy winter... and the holidays... just like you did when you were young.

[Ed. Note: Jon Herring, a copywriter for Early to Rise, is co-author, with Dr. Al Sears, of the book Your Best Health Under the Sun. ….]”

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