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VITAMIN D IS HOT. "According to a January 17 press release by Orthomolecular Medicine, " "23,600 medical papers with vitamin D in the title or abstract were published in 2012 alone, bringing the grand total to 33,800." https://lnkd.in/enKX4U6 View in LinkedIn

STEPHEN HAWKINS PREDICTS: "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." His warning came in response to a question about a revamp of the technology he uses to communicate, which involves a basic form of AI." Makes me sit up and take notice. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540 View in LinkedIn

EX MACHINA, the film. "Nathan admits that he surreptitiously used the clout of his company (read Google) to collect audiovisual data from billions of people, accumulating their most intimate experiences, and that he loaded this information to (avanced robot) Ava's sophisticated chemical brain, which is very flexible and advances independently like humans'." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_(film) View in LinkedIn

SERIAL VIEWING. I strongly recommend viewing the following films in the following order: The Imitation Game, directed by Morton Tyldum about Alan Turing's decoding of the Nazi Enigma code. Her, directed by Spike Jonze, about a man's relationship with an Operating System. And finally, Ex Machina, directed by Alex Garland, about AI consciousness. Imagine a living bio-brain within a sophisticated robot. View in LinkedIn

D*ACTION PROJECT. "A robust and growing body of research clearly shows that vitamin D is absolutely critical for good health and disease prevention. This is why I am so excited about the D*Action Project by GrassrootsHealth. It requires two measurements: Vitamin D serum levels, and" "Health status." https://lnkd.in/enKX4U6 View in LinkedIn

"BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS (BV) is a highly prevalent vaginal infection that is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Vitamin D exerts an influence on the immune system and may play a role in BV. There was a dose-response association between 25(OH)D and the prevalence of BV." https://lnkd.in/eP2RwN4 View in LinkedIn

VIT D AS IMMUNOSUPRESSANT. "Supplementation of vitamin D was shown to be therapeutically effective in various animal models such as autoimmune encephalomyelitis, collagen‐induced arthritis, type 1 diabetes mellitus, inflammatory bowel disease, autoimmune thyroiditis and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and in some models of SLE it prevented disease development." https://lnkd.in/e6juFGD View in LinkedIn

REVIEW OF 13 D CLINICAL TRIALS. "On the basis of studies reviewed to date, the strongest evidence supports further research into adjunctive vitamin D therapy for tuberculosis, influenza, and viral upper respiratory tract illnesses." https://lnkd.in/eabVNxv View in LinkedIn

INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND D. "Recent studies have demonstrated that vitamin D regulates the expression of specific endogenous antimicrobial peptides in immune cells; this action leads to a potential role for vitamin D in modulating the immune response to various infectious diseases." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2855046/ View in LinkedIn

TB TREATMENT AND PREVENTION. "The isolation of vitamin D3 from cod liver oil, which was used to treat tuberculosis (TB) in the 1930s, led to its widespread use in TB treatment and prevention, until the introduction of antiinfective chemotherapy in the 1950s." Explains all those mothers in our youth cramming cod liver oil down children's throats. https://lnkd.in/eabVNxv View in LinkedIn