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Can Vitamin D Improve Your Sleep?

Thursday, October 22, 2015
Vitamin D is inversely related to melatonin, your sleep hormone, so it makes sense that taking it at night disrupts sleep. I’ve noticed this effect personally. For this reason, there is no reason to take vitamin D at night. continue reading

A vitamin in beer and Vegemite can prevent skin cancer

Thursday, October 22, 2015
Aussie as ... You’d need to eat a kilo of Vegemite a day to prevent skin cancer. continue reading

You Can’t Overdose Sunny ‘D’

Wednesday, October 21, 2015
You can OD on Vitamin D supplements — but not sunshine-induced vitamin D continue reading

he Human Body Is a Vitamin D Factory: Ramp Up Production With Sun Exposure

Wednesday, October 21, 2015
TORONTO — The importance of natural sunlight to human life cannot be understated. It sustains everything we eat, plant or animal. It helps boost our mood. continue reading

Is it sunshine or vitamin D that helps multiple sclerosis (MS) patients?

Wednesday, October 21, 2015
However, as unintuitive as it sounds, the authors point out that serum 25(OH)D levels are a marker of sun exposure as well as vitamin D levels so it may be a beneficial effect of sun exposure that is causing the benefit for MS, effects that have nothing to do with vitamin D. continue reading

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