SN 1058: A Gift for the New Year - Vitamin D Revisited
Security Now (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In this special holiday episode, Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte revisit their classic conversation about vitamin D—diving into the science, surprising updates, and practical tips for your health. Whether you've heard it before or are tuning in for the first time, this "blast from the past" is the perfect way to kick off 2026 with wisdom, laughs, and a little bit of eggnog recovery.
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| 0:00.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:03.9 | From people you trust. |
| 0:06.9 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:12.0 | This is Security Now with Steve Gibson, episode 158 for December 30th, 2025. |
| 0:20.2 | A gift for the new year. |
| 0:22.9 | It's time for security now. |
| 0:25.5 | The New Year's Eve edition. |
| 0:27.5 | Hello, I'm Leo Lipport. |
| 0:29.0 | Say hello to Mr. Steve Gibson of gRC.com |
| 0:33.8 | and the host of Security Now. |
| 0:35.5 | Happy New Year, Steve. |
| 0:37.4 | Happy, I can't believe 2025 is gone and we're |
| 0:42.7 | launching into 2026, ready or not? Wow. Now, we figured there probably wasn't a lot of security |
| 0:50.0 | news at the end of the year. Certainly, if there was, we covered it last week. So we thought we |
| 0:56.6 | do something special for our New Year's Eve edition. And we might be recovering from eggnog, |
| 1:01.9 | so, you know. Eggnog poisoning. Is there any vitamin D in eggnog? That's the real question. |
| 1:11.6 | No. Way back when, in the day, this goes back to the cottage days, 2009, when we weren't even doing video, |
| 1:19.6 | Steve surprised me with a security now that was devoted not to cybersecurity, to personal security, to supplements. |
| 1:32.4 | How did you get into this whole thing? |
| 1:35.7 | So shortly after Spinwright 5 was finished and published, it was doing well, and I had a lot of time on my hands. I had, |
| 1:46.2 | I had scaled the company down to just Sue and Greg and me, and I like, well, okay, |
| 1:53.2 | uh, now what? And I, it was before I was 50. I was in my late 40s and I remember |
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