The harbor of Monaco where the people with 10 million dollar yachts feel like peasants compared to the folks with 100 million dollar yachts. When I was researched Monaco for my trip I learned that that this was the most expensive place on the planet!
My previous Vitamin D Posts:
I hope you don’t mind if I just plagiarize myself a bit since it’s also helpful for me to go through some of this stuff:
… Read MoreBasics of Vitamin D
- It is a hormone derived from cholesterol
- It can be made in the skin with exposure to sunlight
- It can also be ingested with food or supplementation
Effects of Vitamin D
- Maintains calcium levels in body which is important for bone health
- Regulates gene expression
- Helps immune function
- May provide anti-cancer effects
- Vitamin D levels need to be in the 50 -70 ng/mL range for thyroid hormone receptors to respond properly
- Low Vitamin D levels are seen in obesity, although I’m not entirely sure if it’s known whether obesity causes low vitamin D levels, or if it’s the other way around.
I recently summarized my personal experience with how the changes in my diet have affected my thyroid in the review on I wrote on Jimmy Moore’s Keto Clarity. If you’d like to read about my history more in detail you can refer to these posts:
Here are my latest numbers:
When looking at all the numbers, it’s interesting to note how similar they are to my numbers from 12/16/2013 after 10 weeks of Carb Nite.… Read More
As you can probably tell with my recent spate of cholesterol focused posts exploring the thoughts of Dr. Dayspring as well as the role of Apo-E and alcohol in high cholesterol… cholesterol has been on my mind of late.
It’s been about 6 months since my last blood test and a lot has happened since then like:
View of the coast line in the city of Menton in the south of France. We spent an unplanned night in this beautiful place because of an unforeseen train strike… which is apparently a common occurrence Europe.
My lovely mother who is a subscriber to this site, and who now wants me to refer to her as the CaveMOM whenever I go home to visit, thought it was important to share the threat of meat glue which she discovered in her journey’s throughout the land of Youtube.
While I don’t know how pervasive the use of meat glue is, it does apparently carry the real risk of infection if a meat-glued-together-steak is ordered from an unscrupulous restaurant and not fully cooked.
It also carries a threat to your pocketbook, since there is the possibility of overpaying for lower quality meat at said unscrupulous restaurant.… Read More