Now if you've been participating in this podcast for some time, you know that I like to mix in popular culture, things about books and movies, even history, and try to relate it to areas of medicine that are currently practiced.

Well, it turns out this episode is no different.

We're going to be talking about Vitamin D deficiency.

And me personally, I think it's kind of interesting.

Because if you think about it,

we have mutant superpowers we have the

ability to produce vitamin D from the sun and that if it's not anything X-Men

related it's pretty awesome.

But if you live in areas like Canada, or even Boston or Maine,

when you get to the winter months,

those patients have absolutely zero production of Vitamin D in their skin.

It's like they were exposed to some form of antidote,

or perhaps their superpowers were removed.

It turns out it's just because there's no sun.

So people from England, if you're listening to this

you definitely are going to need some Vitamin D supplementation. And so with that

ladies and gentlemen brings us to our last fat soluble vitamin in this nutrition

series on Vitamin D. I'm Dr.

Ketslone, your friendly neighborhood internist and

gastrantorologist, so let's jump into this vitamin and

talk about what superpower it is that we have and how to fix it if it's not working. Now when Superman landed in Kansas his body began to become exposed to the sun and developed

powers due to his cells drinking the radiation from the yellow sun,

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