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Same weather in Vermont, USA. My dear husband has replaced all the light bulbs in our home with full-spectrum bulbs—overhead lighting and task lighting. I need to be in them 12 + hours a day to experience a difference in pain and mood but they definitely help. The Wellness Recovery Action Plan https://www.wellnessrecoveryactionplan.com/ is another tool I use which has transformed my life with major depressive disorder. It’s available as an 8-week long workshop but also as a free app. There are also some free downloadable PDFs available online. It’s basically a self-care tool.

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Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) is a wellness tool anyone can use to get well, stay well, and make their life more the way they want it to be.

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Since nutrition guidance over recent decades has recommended cutting back on organ meats and egg yolks we generally don’t consume the daily requirement for a nutrient called choline. Choline is important to liver, lung, and brain health.

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Hello Everyone,

The recommended daily intake for zinc is 8 mg for women and 11 mg for men. The “tolerable upper limit” is 40 mg daily. These are provided by the Institute of Medicine for many nutrients. The recommended daily intakes are the levels needed to avoid overt disease while the upper limit is sometimes an educated guess .  Higher quantities are known to cause harm. For excellent and reliable information about nutrients you can go to the Linus Pauling Micronutrient Institute at Oregon State University. If I weren’t technically challenged I would provide the link but…..! Hoping this is useful.