I took this picture of turtles sunning themselves last summer.  Not sure if you can see it very well, but there's one little turtle who crawled up onto a buddy's back.  It reminds me of my youngest son, who is always climbing on someone or something.  I so wish I was outside sunning like that right now.  But, alas, it's winter, and most of us are spending our days inside.  Winter is when Vitamin D levels are typically at their lowest. The Importance of Vitamin D I was sitting in a waiting room somewhere recently and I stumbled across an issue of the magazine, Natural Awakenings, and found a very interesting article about Vitamin D by Lisa Hogan, M.D.  In the article, entitled "Vitamin D: A Very Important Hormone", Dr. Hogan discusses just … [Read more...]