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Sunday, April 19, 2009

The health benefits of the sun

It was interesting being downtown two days before the Boston Marathon. We could easily pick out some of the runners--the serious ones have that unmistakable look to them. Perhaps it's the nice weather, or maybe people are inspired by the race on Monday, but we have been seeing quite a few additional runners out and about the past couple days. We are betting that in 2-4 weeks the novelty will wear off and the numbers will reduce.

This morning I could feel that I am starting to come down with a cold. I don't get them very often (maybe two a year), but I am going to try an experiment with Vitamin D. My very sweet Nutrition professor (Dr. Hayes) is a big advocate of Vit. D, and a few months ago when he started to develop a cold he took extra supplements, which dramatically reduced the duration of his cold. In light of this I will try increasing my own dose from 2000IU to 4000IU/day and see what happens...

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