Fatness, and Vitamins

I hope by now you guys are taking vitamin d, and if you’ve heard this suggestion and haven’t started popping it daily, start now.  No seriously, I mean right now, stop reading this and go buy some.  I’ll wait, so will this article.  What follows is something I like to term advanced paleo jutsu, not for white belts who forget to pop their vitamin d. This has been the latest health care push, even MD’s are realizing how important... Read More

Of Gladness and Light

Take off your clothes!  Oh yeah, let’s show some skin. Excuse me, I’m sorry but the excitement is getting to me.  I don’t really mean all your clothes.  It’s just that weekend forecast has got me giddy with anticipation.  Near 80 degrees!  For more than just one day! This is good.  Very good.  Instead of 50 degree chills the sky will be raining down boatloads of love and vitamin D…at least I hope so. Why am I so excited?  Well,... Read More

Here Comes the Sun!

Summer is almost here, all two months of it.  As Washingtonians we need to be careful of our first few sun exposures, after nine months of gray we usually go pretty crazy on the first 80 degree day we have.  For me it’s a tradition to start off the summer, two weeks of painful showers, peeling skin, and a full body shade of lobster red. I mean who doesn’t love sunlight.  We mope around and complain all winter, take vacations for no... Read More

“The Sun is Shining, The Tank is Clean!”

Sun is something we see little of in Washington this time of year. We need the sun to survive, it provides our bodies with Vitamin D. Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin that helps our bodies absorb calcium and phosphorus. Calcium helps our muscles function, in fact it is one of the main electrolytes that contributes to muscle function. The quick and dirty of it is this. There are 5 types, 2 that really matter to humans, Vitamin D2 and D3. We obtain... Read More