I am going to take this directly off the Vitamin D Council’s website, and I’m sure they’ll let me know if that’s not okay.

* If you totally avoid the sun, recent research indicates you need about 4,000 units of vitamin D a day. Which means you can’t get enough vitamin D from milk (unless you drink 40 glasses a day) or from a multivitamin (unless you take about 10 tablets a day), neither of which is recommended.

* Most of us make about 20,000 units of vitamin D after about 20 minutes of summer sun. This is about 100 times more vitamin D than the government says you need every day.

* The only way to be sure you have adequate levels of vitamin D in your blood is to regularly go into the sun, use a sun bed (avoiding sunburn), or have your physician administer a 25‑hydroxyvitamin D test. Optimal levels are around 50 ng/mL (125 nM/L).

* If you don’t get vitamin D the way Mother Nature intended, from sunshine, you need to take supplemental vitamin D3 cholecalciferol. Since most of us get a lot more vitamin D from sunshine than we realize, most of us need about 2,000 units a day extra.

Please visit the VitaminDCouncil.org to learn more.

Here are three easy ways to get your Vitamin D level tested.

If I had a MRSA infection, this is what I’d do:

1. I would see my doctor immediately and follow his advice.

2. Until the infection was gone, I’d quit eating/drinking all sugar and refined carbohydrates. MRSA bacteria, like most bad bacteria, fungus, etc., eat (live on) sugar.  I would not feed the infection.

If you Google MRSA and sugar, I’m sure you’ll find all the science.

3. I would sunbathe daily in order to get the full natural dose of Vitamin D3 every day, along with all the other healing benefits of the sun (antibacterial and immune boosting), which modern science is only scratching the surface of understanding. If I could not sunbathe, (impossible today here in New England), I would visit a tanning salon 3x weekly.

(I would never let myself burn. The full natural dose of Vitamin D is produced by UVB exposure in a fraction of the time that it takes your skin to even turn slightly pink.)

Visit: vitamindcouncil.org
Read: the UV Advantage pages 153-159.  and/or Vitamin D3 and Solar Power for Optimal Health pages 31, 32 and 195-198.

4. I would shine blue light on the spots as much of the rest of the time as practical. Blue light has been proven to kill MRSA bacteria in vitro, and that’s good enough for me.

See: Blue Light Kills MRSA Superbug

I am not a doctor, and this is not medical advice.  If you think you have a MRSA infection, you should see your doctor immediately.