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Welcome, this is Dr. Mercola helping take control of your health and you're in for a real treat because I'm interviewing myself today and going to give it to a solo podcast to go about a very important topic somewhat philosophical philosophical but also very biologically practical.

And it's related to the topic of the sun, one of my passions and one of the reasons I became so interested in

Vitamin D, a quarter of a century ago and been teaching about it and written papers

about it because one of the benefits of the sun of course is to get and optimize your vitamin D levels is the best way to get

vitamin D. Certainly most of us do not have the opportunity to live in

environments where that's possible.

And as a result, most of the year,

or a large portion of the year, many of us have to supplement with vitamin D.

And I think the solicitor of two eagles,

I think it's far inferior to get it from the sun, but many of us,

as I said, don't have that option available to them.

And even if you lived in an environment where it's possible, many of us are

working indoors and have to pay the bills. And that doesn't involve the opportunity to go outside on a regular basis.

But when you do get your vitamin D, you see vitamin D, the levels have been long associated and correlated with longevity and improvement in health.

This was before they were really vitamin D supplementation was popular, which didn't really

become popular from pretty much the last 20 years, but many of these

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