Not every culture reveres the sun as Americans do. In our recent trip to Chengdu, China with a stopover in Hong Kong, we saw hundreds of people, women especially, blocking light on a daily basis.

We’re not sure if these people are supplementing with vitamin D (there is certainly no vitamin D added to the food chain!) but they’re certainly not getting a lot of sun.

The Vitamin D Council insists that people must expose themselves to sunlight and eat vitamin D-fortified products, yet these people are going about their daily lives without any apparent ill effect.

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If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants a pile of driftwood.

Hello readers!  Suffice it to say I’ve been missing in action for several months.  For much of the time I’ve been traveling.  Some of you may know that I just got back from China where I gave a speech at the International Congress of Antibodies. That will be the subject of my next post when the video of my speech is ready. In the meantime, I finally have time to give you an update of what I was up to before I left for Beijing…just to keep things in chronological order.

Several months ago I travelled to Vancouver Island to stay with Paul’s brother and his wife. It was wonderful to be surrounded by nature again! We took hikes through 200 year old forests and climbed gnarled driftwood on the beach. It was the first time I’ve sat around a bonfire since getting sick. I even got to take a horseback riding lesson and stayed on the horse!

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