Vitamin D in COVID19 Times

HOW: spend time outside or take Vit-D supplements orally. Daily maintenance of vitamin d is recommended in order to have the optimal protective/preventative effects.

There is mounting clinical evidence showing that Vitamin D prevents the cytokine storm and much of what we already know about this vitamin’s role in our immune system today doesn’t surprise experts.

This video is a great summary of how Vitamin D prevents cytokine storms which is known to be caused by COVID19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd_oGkGJr04

Reference:
Covid-19: Emerging Evidence Suggests Role for Vitamin D in Coronavirus Severity
https://www.physiciansweekly.com/covid-19-emerging-evidence-suggests-role-for-vitamin-d-in-coronavirus-severity/

Is a “Cytokine Storm” Relevant to COVID-19?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2767939#:~:text=A%20critical%20evaluation%20of%20the,chemokines%2C%20and%20several%20other%20mediators.

NIH Study: “Vit D has been widely implicated in enhancing the immune response and suppressing the cytokine storm. It’s deficiency has been linked to increased susceptibility to viral infections”. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7266578/
How: spend 20 minutes under sunlight each day, or take vitamin D orally. Specifically, it is important to consistently regulate your vitamin D levels (sunlight daily

An Illustrated Guide to export Garmin Connect’s Training Calendar to Google Calendar

For those who use Google Calendar as a personal time management tool, you’ll be glad to know that you can export your Garmin Connect training calendar!  Here’s how it is done:

  1. Login to Garmin Connect  (https://connect.garmin.com/).
  2. Select a Training Plan: step1a
  3. Schedule the training schedule in order to add it to your Dashboard: step 1a
  4. Continue reading

San Diego’s Most Important Tweeters!

If you own a mobile phone and know how to access the internets, subscribing to Twitter is hardly something to scoff about.  Twitter is a practical communication tool that combines the best of the web with your cell phone without the need for a mobile data contract.   Whether you have a data plan or not, you are sure to benefit greatly from free service if you “follow” the right “tweeters.”

Tweeters here are chosen for their quality and usefulness of their tweets.  No fluff here! You can subscribe to my local-news twitter list, or simply read more about why you should follow: Continue reading

How to change your Work and Home address in Google Latitude

Google Latitude can now tell you how much time you spend at work and home.  Latitude will set your work and home addresses by default using your location history.  The address will very likely be inaccurate because it is usually based on cell phone tower triangulated location data.

You can let Google Latitude track your time spent at work and home more accurately by updating the work and home addresses.  Here’s how:

Sign into your Google account, and go to the Google Latitude dashboard: https://www.google.com/latitude/b/0/history/dashboard

Click Change next to the Work or Home Address to Change it.Next to your Work or Home address, click “Change” to change the respective address.  That’s it!