Health advocate Gary Null has provided an unintentional educational lesson for those of us using dietary supplements. Taking one of his own products, he developed vitamin D toxicity. As there have been only a few cases of vitamin D toxicity ever reported, there is an inevitably interesting story behind this announcement. The story is that […]
Take That With a Grain of Salt Please
You may have noticed that there is a campaign underway to get Americans to drop their salt intake. This has included discussion of measures as radical as creating a legal limit on salt (sodium) in processed food. Although there is a lot that is good about this, it can also create confusion. I have had […]
How Vitamin D Helps Asthma
Although we have lots of evidence showing that vitamin D lowers the risk of many diseases, the lingering concern is that vitamin D levels might simply tell us who was healthier to begin with. In other words, healthy people go outside more often because they are healthy not the other way around. With the passage […]