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Feeling the Winter Blues? Discover the Simple Connection Between Vitamin D and Beating SAD

Learn how vitamin D, sunlight, and simple strategies can brighten your mood this winter.

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Kathleen Barnes
January 04, 2025

January 4, 2025

A Message from Kathleen:

Dear Friends,

Happy 2025! My most sincere wishes for your health, prosperity and happiness for the coming year.

As you’ll see from this week’s lead article on seasonal depression, you can gird yourself against the blues and even clinical depression with one simple strategy.

And it’s a great time to give yourself a break. Bears hibernate in winter. Why can’t we humans take a cue from our four-legged friends and slow down and bit, curl up on the couch with a cup of tea and a good book, maybe even take a nap?

Be well,

Kathleen

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It’s that time of year. The holidays are over, the decorations packed away. Some of us are experiencing seasonal depression. Try Vitamin D.

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