Stick with me and I'll give you some tips to help you manage seasonal depression. Seasonal depression can be really hard for some people, especially those who live in the northern climates where you go for months where you can't really get outside it's below freezing you can't really take a walk and get a big dose of sun. A lot of seasonal depression has to do with sunlight and this isn't anything new. You probably knew this but there are some tips you can do that you might not know about to help you create vitamin D when there's not much sunlight around. So the first thing I'm going to do is the easiest thing to do is just take vitamin D. Now you can take it from two different sources D2 or D3. I've used both in my practice they both seem to work about equally as well. I know there's a big controversy or whatever but in real practice I didn't notice any difference they both seem to do about the same thing. You know there's there's vegan sources which is good and then there's also sources where they take it off of it's wool. It's a sheep's wool I think they compress it the oil out of wool there's something and it has high amounts of of Dean it. So those are the easiest thing to do and what you want to do is use the liquid kind you put under your tongue a lot of times especially in America people eat the standard American diet they can't digest anything well so you bypass the digestive system by putting liquid under your tongue and it'll it'll hit you really good. So go up the amount of D people take is ridiculously low the recommended starting point for me when I put patients on it's like I usually put about 5,000 which is about a dropper full you know it's pretty hard to overdose on vitamin D and people are massively depleted and it's also excellent for an anti-inflammatory response vitamin D it's I even hate calling it a vitamin because it's really like a hormone it affects how you make other hormones and it affects how other hormones work so when you don't get enough sunlight you don't make enough D you don't make the right kind of hormones you start getting depressed it's this big chain reaction that goes down the cycle so that's an easiest way so you know no brainer take some D but there are some other cool things out there you might not know about I use a light right next to my monitor that's actually shining on me right now I'll show it to you so I'm gonna grab my webcam and spin it around and you will see something called daylight here this is a special light that runs at the same wavelengths as the Sun well at least the ones that make you make vitamin D you can put this light in your house for the winter but put it right where you're gonna be a lot because it takes about 30 minutes to an hour of light to really get a good dose of it you I put it right over my computer screen so when I'm working all afternoon I'm getting a dose of this light and it keeps me in a good mood keeps me producing my D you have to be fairly close to these lights within about three feet for them to work so put it somewhere where you can actually sit around and it gets get you now remember a lot of vitamin D you make is actually through your eyeballs so when you get a lot of sun through your eyes that produces more D than than a hitting on the skin the other thing this is kind of just a side thing that we do for fun is K turned me on to putting prisms all over the house and these prisms throw light everywhere and rainbows all over the house whenever the Sun comes out so we have these on every window now although they're not going to help you produce vitamin D they do put you in a really good mood when you see them you're like oh look at all these rainbows dancing so let me show you a little bit of that now so one way to brighten your room is to hang these little balls well prisms all over and you can have different shape prisms like this one and what this does is it shoots rainbows all over the room and you can kind of see right here and here but but what's more interesting is when you take it over to the the walls and it shoots rainbows all through your house just a really nice thing it puts me in a good mood to see all these cool colors everywhere when I wake up so you can do this pretty easily check it out one other thing you can do is put out these cool sequins pillows look at it throw light and prisms everywhere although not quite as rainbowy but very pretty take a look at the pillow from this angle you can actually see the colors come through pretty neat then I wonder if it changes colors when I do this anyway and you got to be careful because these sequins pillows are very addicting and you'll just sit here and play with them and play with them and play with them it's very studio 54 I love it I hope you try the prisms at home I think you'll like it I mean yes it doesn't produce D3 but it does make my house look like a disco which puts me in a great mood I love it if this is the first time you've watched my channel I run a variety show so I don't always do health stories I do stories on gardening and self-efficiency and how to improve your life uplifting stories I even do some esoteric stuff once in a while but if you're not a fan of YouTube you can find me at any of these other platforms that are decentralized you feel free to come over and say hi at any of those if you're here watching me on YouTube you know I am trying to get off being so dependent on YouTube add money and I'm trying to start a Patreon model so you can support the show for as little as a dollar if you're brand new don't even worry about that just keep watching these stories here also I will put the Amazon links to the products I talked about below in the description so happy watching be nice to that cat