Tag Archives: Vitamin D

The Uniqueness Of Vitamin D, Why It’s So Important, And Why Most Americans Don’t Get Enough

You may think that if you pop a daily multivitamin you’ve got your vitamin needs covered. Think again. Vitamin D, an essential vitamin and well-known for it’s role in strong bones, is continuously being linked to more vital life functions. … read more »

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Epigenetics – Helping To Explain Positive Outcomes

Dietary supplements, botanicals, counseling, homeopathy, physical medicine and most, if not all, other modalities we use in naturopathic medicine often have an unexplainable component. The mechanism of action, or in ‘reductionist’ thinking, the single element or “magic bullet” is often … read more »

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Vitamin D – The Sunshine Nutrient

Vitamin D is frequently in the news lately. From babies receiving Vitamin D supplements to it being linked to many diseases including diabetes and osteoporosis. Everyone knows that Vitamin D is absorbed from the sun, but how, and why is … read more »

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Tips and Tricks For Building Immunity

The gradual shortening of the days signal a few things: the approach of autumn and its beautiful colors, the fact that Thanksgiving and then the hurried days before Christmas are just around the corner, and…the not so happy news that … read more »

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