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Protect your brain: Get some sunshine and Vitamin D

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Two new medical studies suggest that spending a little time in the sun every day and a supplemental vitamin might keep our brains sharper longer. Hello sunshine Vitamin D continues to shine as the darling nutrient of the decade as researchers learn more about its seemingly endless benefits to our health. Our bodies manufacture vitamin [...]

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Fighting the Warm Weather Blues

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Caught by the Calendar Most of the articles you read on Seasonal Affective Disorder confidently state that SAD disappears with the onset of spring. And what if it doesn’t? It is now mid June in Michigan and I’m not sure I can say I’ve shaken off all of the spring depression I had this season. [...]

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Surprise of Spring Depression

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We Can’t Trust the Calendar Springtime is not an automatically light-filled and easy season for many people. The official start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere was March 20. But based on the Google searches that are finding this blog, lots of people are still struggling with seasonal depression and the whack to their body [...]

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Winter’s Quiet Starts to Fade

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The sun is shining for the sixth consecutive day (the longest stretch we’ve had all winter), the temperatures have been dancing into the 40s and 50s°F and much of the snow has melted. It looks like spring might truly arrive. And one of the things I love about winter will fade away, too. The quiet.

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Sunless Days Mean January Struggles

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In the Northern Hemisphere we’ve gained about 1 minute per day of sunlight since the winter solstice, the official start of winter, on Dec. 21. Have you noticed? I haven’t. Other than a couple of afternoons when it still seemed to be a bit lighter when I left work, January has been almost a continual [...]

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Most of Us Are Light Deprived

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This is the second article in the Bright Light series. Most of us live most of our lives indoors. That means most of us, even in sunnier climates, are “light deprived.” Since I learned I have seasonal affective disorder, I fantasize about living in a more temperate, sunny place like San Diego. Get this: Even [...]

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