Should you be taking Vitamin D?
If you were to ask me, "where does good health come from?" you would almost certainly hear an answer that sounded like "your good health will not come from pills." Even doctors can fall into believing that pills can be the answer to staying well, but time, experience, and good science have told me that our personal choices are so much more important. Good health comes from good food, healthy social connections, physical activity, and adequate sleep. But... Even that core of good health choices may not get you enough vitamin D. Humans were designed to get vitamin D from sunshine exposure on our skin, and unless you work outdoors in a warm climate without much skin covering, you are not going to get enough vitamin D. And most of us are spending too much time indoors, or in artificial light anyway. Why is vitamin D important? You probably have heard that it's good for bo...