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‘Sun Scare’ Purveyors Sizzling Over Bacon?

Saturday, April 27, 2024
By Joseph Levy American Suntanning Association There’s a $64,000 question in the science of indoor tanning, and it has nothing to do with anything you’d ever find in a sunbed salon. Look no further than your kitchen. The World Health Organization years ago shocked many in the public health community by adding “processed meat” – yes, that includes bacon – to its list of substances it considers carcinogenic to humans.… continue reading

How Vitamin D Acts as a Key to Unlocking Your DNA Library

Friday, April 26, 2024
Published on April 25, 2024
 

15% Off for DNA Day! Help protect your DNA and improve its utilization by ensuring adequate concentrations of vitamin D, magnesium and omega 3s

Key Points

  • One of the most important functions of vitamin D is to enable access to the information stored within DNA for a cell’s proper response to routine signals and stimuli, processes that occur constantly within every body tissue; adequate concentrations of vitamin D are necessary to enable a full and proper response
  • Immune cells can become activated with vitamin D and vitamin D can inhibit cancer cell growth, just a few examples of processes that are turned on or off by the action(s) that vitamin D has on specific genes within those cells
  • A significant “dose-dependent” effect was observed for gene expression at all levels of vitamin D intake, meaning the higher the dose the more genes that were affected
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Vitamin D plays a key role in the expression of our genes, and therefore, in the many complex cellular pathways involved in all systems throughout the body.
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How the Immune System Relies on Vitamin D

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

How the Immune System Relies on Vitamin D

Monday, April 22nd, 2024
From GrassrootsHealth

What is Vitamin D Good For? (Part 9: Immune Health) – Vitamin D is needed by virtually every cell in the body, and is essential for hundreds of processes each and every day

As part of our What is Vitamin D Good For?
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BDC – 5 mistakes to avoid when determining a company’s value

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

5 mistakes to avoid when determining a company’s value

Avoid these valuation mistakes to give yourself the best odds for a successful transaction
5-minute read
Whether you want to buy a business, sell yours or offer shares, assessing the value of the company in question will be inevitable.
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New Sunshine – Webinars for May

Monday, April 22, 2024
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