Oh vitamin D, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
So it's been over a month now since I've started my cod liver oil and vitamin D supplements. First, I have to say, if you ever want your hair to grow at an almost alarming rate, take a tsp or two of cod liver oil daily!!
On to my main point.
The vitamin D!!! Oh the vitamin D! I have to ask, why doesn't anybody teach people this stuff. I guess no one every realized that when we started living and working indoors, kids playing and studying indoors 90% of the time, that we might be missing out on something, evolutionarily speaking, essential. The sun. That "Get up and play, an hour a day" ad campaign that they're running here in the U.S. for kids and families makes more sense than just going outside to get exercise.
I had been wondering why my regular sleeping in the dark thing hadn't retained it's initial magical properties. I was still doing it, but, I couldn't wake up as easily as before, nor feel up to doing anything useful with my day. I later realized the problem. The semester ended and spring turned into a blistering summer. It meant I did my best to hide from the sun instead of enjoying and intentionally taking many walks around in Arizona's perfect winter sun. I started the supplements, because I can't do an hour a day in Arizona sun. I'd look like a burned tomato afterwards. Trust me I've tried. Sunblock really is my skin's best friend. But the vit. D supplements. I swear it's the best thing since sliced bread. I take 2000 I.U. every morning with my cod liver oil, and boy, what a difference in my life that has made. When I took the supplements: Magic is back. I wake up more easily, feel psychologically motivated to start my day and get things done, and actually don't feel depressed and lazy. That's right. Me. Not lazy. Bizarre right?
Lentils!
I know, I'm not the first person you would think of when you wonder who likes lentils. I've so far discovered that I love them in pretty much one form. My "Super Soup". Sprouted and cooked in a soup with a some ground beef/lamb browned in olive oil, water, black pepper, and salt. That's it. It's the simplest thing ever, but I swear it gives me strength and energy. Very nutritious and an excellent sick-person food.
Sprouting is important, it means soaking them in warm-ish water until you see little white roots sticking out of the lentils (or beans, peas, chickpeas, wheat, you name it). It makes them taste so much better, get digested more easily with no *gassy* side effects, and most importantly, it increases the quantity of bio-available nutrients as the seed develops and makes it more easily absorbed by your body. Whatever it is you are cooking, believe me, soaking them till they sprout will turn them from a just okay food to something really good and nutritious.
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