Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today

we're in for a real treat because we're going to talk about what of my favorite topics,

Vitamin D, and you're going to learn a lot of insights that you probably didn't realize before and I certainly didn't before I read our authors book Dr Mark Sorensen who who wrote the book, Embrace the Sun. In fact, the book is so good

then did all the lectures I'd given for the last six months and the ones coming up for

this year I've embedded a copy of the cover of his book and

encourage all the people attending my presentation to get a copy because it's

really good and Vitamin D is at the core is absolutely foundational core of

optimizing your health. If you don't get that right, so many other things are just

not going to fall into place and it's not it is absolutely not and I've said this before going to repeat it because it's worthwhile

not about swallowing a pill it's about getting it from the sun the way all of our ancient

answers were designed to do yeah so I could go on for like an hour on this Mark

but I I want to have you in because there's so much good stuff here.

So welcome and thank you for joining us and perhaps begin by discussing the motivation

for writing this great book.

Well, you know, when I was a young man I was running a

world-class health resort we were getting all kinds of wonderful things

happening like we had an average of 11.7 days to have two of every three diabetics off of all medication.

Heart disease reverse to where people did not have to have operations, bypass operations that was scheduled for.

And I chalked it up all to good nutrition and a lot of exercise and so forth.

After I actually sold that business and they retired for a while I began to realize

that a lot of what was happening was due to the sunlight and I got interested in

Vitamin D at that time wrote a book in 2004 on Vitamin D and updated a couple years later, and you began to sell that book on your side at that time.

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