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Are you one of the types of people who need more vitamin D?

Well first of all, it's important for you to know that vitamin D is one, if not the

most, essential vitamins for good health.

In fact, vitamin D is actually not a vitamin at all.

It's a hormone that has effects on almost everything that happens in you and to you.

Interestingly enough, we know that people who have the highest levels of vitamin D in their

bloodstream have the longest telomeres, those little end caps on chromosomes.

And if you like the telomere theory of longevity, then long telomeres are much better for

you than short telomeres.

And vitamin D level correlates with telomere length.

Interestingly enough, all five of the blue zones are in high sun exposure areas, including

my blue zone, Lomolinda, where I spent half my career as a professor.

The other thing that's fascinating is that vitamin D is essential to activate the differentiation

of stem cells in your gut to provide gut cell lining.

And without vitamin D, the stem cells that repopulate your gut lining, which is damaged every

day by all the things you eat, by all the things we do, by all the toxins in our food and

by glyphosate, the active ingredient in roundup, we are very deficient in replacing the

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