
Supplements - Do We Need Them?
Functional Medicine Bitesized
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Genetics of Vitamin D
Vitamin D levels turned up unusually low when he was in lockdown. He probably got gene variations all the way through how we metabolize cholesterol right through it, sort of the inactive aspect of it being developed on the skin. So there's a classic example of personalization as opposed to general population. We've been using genetics for 15 years and there's no doubt if you have some degree of understanding of it,. It just opens up a whole new world as far as personalization which I think is what you were trying to say. The big shift also is not just recent farming methods but this dramatic shift that happened 7 to 10,000 years ago.
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