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Dr. Eisenstein asks. Where has all the sun gone?

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Uploaded by on Jan 8, 2010

http://homefirst.com/ Imagine a nutrient that could help prevent cancer, heart disease and tuberculosis, preserve bones, and thwart autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile diabetes. Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?

But that's the potential now being attributed to Vitamin D, whose usefulness was once thought to be limited to prevention of rickets in children and severe bone loss in adults. Known as the sunshine vitamin because it is produced when the skin is exposed to ultraviolet light, Vitamin D has been garnering increasing attention recently, because of what it may be able to do and because many people appear to be getting too little of it.


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  • Please keep on keeping on Dr Eisenstein. Peace.

  • o man that better not be an Ed Hardy shirt

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