Comments on: Daylight Saving Time and SAD http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2009/03/10/daylight-saving-time-and-sad/ A blog about mental health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:55:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John M. http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2009/03/10/daylight-saving-time-and-sad/comment-page-1/#comment-4576 John M. Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:41:15 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/?p=2839#comment-4576 I was doing some political walking (door-to-door campaigning) with a buddy two weekends ago, and he mentioned that his wife had an auto-immune disorder - and she was from MA. This is California, BTW. I said that my (Pennsylvania) dad had MS, and we both posited that we exchanged higher risk of skin cancer for more vitamin D. The "very next day" (trite), Dr. Whositz from Parade magazine said that vitamin D had been shown to prevent auto-immune disorder. Could it also, if taken in large enough doses, help with SAD? The vitamin D (400 I.U.) in milk is probably not enough to ward off auto-immune conditions. We get 320 days of sunlight a year compared with your under 200...it makes a difference. Of course, as we generate vitamin D, we prematurely age our skin and set ourselves up for carcinomas and melanomas. Interesting trade-off for me, who has had two close relatives with MS. I was doing some political walking (door-to-door campaigning) with a buddy two weekends ago, and he mentioned that his wife had an auto-immune disorder – and she was from MA. This is California, BTW. I said that my (Pennsylvania) dad had MS, and we both posited that we exchanged higher risk of skin cancer for more vitamin D.

The “very next day” (trite), Dr. Whositz from Parade magazine said that vitamin D had been shown to prevent auto-immune disorder. Could it also, if taken in large enough doses, help with SAD? The vitamin D (400 I.U.) in milk is probably not enough to ward off auto-immune conditions.

We get 320 days of sunlight a year compared with your under 200…it makes a difference. Of course, as we generate vitamin D, we prematurely age our skin and set ourselves up for carcinomas and melanomas. Interesting trade-off for me, who has had two close relatives with MS.

]]> By: erin http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2009/03/10/daylight-saving-time-and-sad/comment-page-1/#comment-4575 erin Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:06:42 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/?p=2839#comment-4575 i think companies should adapt to DST so we don't have to suffer from SAD...ya know, like, start work later...mmm hmmm. i think companies should adapt to DST so we don’t have to suffer from SAD…ya know, like, start work later…mmm hmmm.

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