#vitamin-d

#vitamin-d

Let's talk about something nobody warned us about: watching our mothers navigate their sixties with medicine cabinets that look like small pharmacies. Mine started complaining about joint pain last year, then fatigue, then that her doctor kept mentioning bone density. Every visit seemed to add another supplement to her routine, but half the time she wasn't sure if they were actually helping or just expensive placebos.

Living in a place where it's cold and dark for several months at a time can take a toll on even the toughest person. During Alaska winters, I'd go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. Summers bring almost 24 hours of daylight, but that doesn't necessarily mean sunshine, as Alaskan summers can also be quite rainy. The light made sleep extremely difficult, too.

Snibbe takes creatine to help build muscle: a link backed by thousands of high-quality studies. The supplement du-jour has long been popular among gym bros, but is becoming more mainstream amid growing evidence of other benefits, such as preserving brain function. The body naturally produces creatine, a building block of the molecule ATP, which gives our cells energy. We can also get it from eating proteins, like red meat and seafood.

Vitamin D supplementation was 60% effective against COVID-19 incidence and 70% effective in preventing severe cases requiring ICU care, far surpassing the risk-laden pharmaceutical solutions pushed by captured institutions.