It absolutely blew my mind when you said you experienced anxiety for the first time in your life. I didn't know it was possible to live without it. Anxiety is a daily experience for me 🤯

It's not just the vitamin D. The darkness leads to increased melatonin levels, the sleep hormone, which makes you sleepy and potentially more down and anxious. Daylight increases cortisol levels, which makes you feel more alert and awake. So feeling tired and fatigued during months of darkness is pretty normal I'd say. Some people, including me, find daylight lamps helpful. So you'll get a dose of bright light every day which helps balance your melatonin and cortisol levels.

In my case it is the absolute opposite. When late Autumn / Winter arrives I get so much more energy and feel alive. I love it that most of the time it is dark and getting dark really soon and the rest of the time the sky is grey 99% of the time. I get creative, feel alive and have way more energy. BUT when late Spring / Summer comes around I get tired, feel down, depressed and have literally no energy. I can't sleep well and get headache all the time because of the sun.

I live in Nigeria where it's sunny for most part of the year, and let me tell you, I LOVE the dark. Nights are when I feel energized the most. I can't explain it

I noticed that for a few years after moving out of Scandinavia I was hypersensitive to lack of daylight and would quickly feel down and depressed, but after living further south in Europe, I didn't have mood swings just because I was staying in a basement apartment for a few hours I practically never got mood swings or felt really down after I moved to a tropical country, even though I went through menopause and my diet wasn't so good, and the environment was rather polluted. When I was suffering from winter depression, it was hard to take care of myself and cook healthy food & exercise, to prevent further deterioration. That's why I'd rather live in a poor country that has plenty of sunlight than a more comfortable one if I cannot enjoy it. Of course, I'd rather have both.

My daughter has issues with low vitamin d, and she gets anxiety with it, along with being tired, shortness of breath, brain fog, and other symptoms. The worst symptom she has ever had before we discovered it was low vit d, was a muscular/neurological symptom that caused her body to jerk and spasm. It was frightening.

As an Australian, your experience was so fascinating and far out of my understanding. Thanks for sharing.

Tips for folks with seasonal depression: 1. Keep your curtains shut and turn on smart bulbs on daylight setting if you don’t plan to leave the house. 2. That said, leave the house as much as you can on brighter days. Try to expose your arms and legs to sunlight as that’s how you absorb it from the sun. Doing this first thing after dawn is ideal on clearer days. Sometimes letting the sun’s rays hit the back of your eyeballs is the only way to truly wake up. But don’t look at the sun. For long. 3. Use these same smart bulbs as a kind of “light alarm” by setting schedules or automations. I advise you buy WiZ lights as they have some great options, such as true daylight and warm yellow, as well as RGB hues and dimming. They’re as good as any Phillips smart bulb and are a fraction of the price. When confronted with “daylight” first thing in the morning, you’re less inclined to feel like curling back under the covers. 4. Consume dairy and other high-calcium foods. Calcium assists the absorption of both iron and vitamin D. 5. Get a smart heater for your bedroom and set it so that it turns on shortly before your alarm. It makes getting out of bed more bearable. 6. Exercise daily. Try to do some level of vigorous movement for 15 minutes daily - remember, everyone’s interpretation of “vigorous” is different. Use as much energy as you can, as causing your body to sweat will trick it into thinking it’s warmer, and the release of hormones will give you a great high afterwards! If you typically run outside, invest in some thermal gear or else just join a local gym if possible and use the treadmills there. You may end up finding an awesome podcast to keep you motivated. 7. Don’t be afraid to enjoy a nice warm coffee as soon as you wake up. If you find it gives you energy, go for it! I would advise against having coffee after 1pm in winter though, as it can totally destroy your sleep schedule if you’re not careful. 8. Prepare a selection of citrus jams over the summer to be enjoyed with your autumn and winter bakes. Ginger cookies with homemade marmalade are just delicious, or you may prefer a Madeira cake with lemon jam instead. This is another great way of getting in more vitamin D. The sunny colours and sweet/tart flavours are sure to lift your spirits! 9. Potatoes have a higher vitamin D content (per gram) than any citrus fruit. I implore you to make as many roasts, soups and stews as you can stomach. Seriously. I’m Irish, trust me.

I wonder how early settlers to your area coped with polar night. It would be interesting for you to do an historical perspective of how challenging it must have been.

hi, cecilia. i am by no means a sun-worshipper however, the thought of not seeing the sun for months on end terrifies me. even on cloudy days in the northeast U.S. i have a minor depression and when the sun peaks out of the clouds it's an instantaneous lifting of my mood and overall energy as if a light switch was flipped on. anyway, i'm glad you found answers to your vitamin D dilemma. a toast to your health. my regards to christoffer and grim. take care. cheers!

As someone who has been severely mentally ill for as long as I can remember, I forget not everyone has experienced things like anxiety because it's so normal to me. So yeah, Cecilia, I'm sorry you had to wrestle with some anxiety this past winter and I'm glad you're doing better now; when you said you've never experienced it before and it kind of shocked you, you did make me laugh so thank you for that. :)

Did 2 winters in stockholm, and just got back to london a month ago. The winters were dark in Sweden and yet I feel more lonely here than I ever did in Stockholm. Even with those dark winters I felt fantastic. People I know come up to me here to tell me how good I look after Sweden. Man, I wanna go back lol. Life in Scandinavia is just fantastic even in complete darkness

Cecilia, I started watching you because of how strangely anxiety-free you normally are! LOL You've been an inspiration to me, and I'm so thankful to have found your channel. You, Christoffer, and Grim are such a great family, and the landscape is breathtaking. Thank you for sharing your life and I wish you all good health and safe travels. 💙

I had 11 units in my blood results in August... and didn't feel any negative effects, at least it's what I thought. I took 4000 units every day, and I felt awaken, energized, finally normal. I didn't know I wasn't feeling normal before.

Last winter I started working from home and not going out during daytime as much as I was before. I started to feel more and more tired everyday and that made me want to stay more at home and I spent weeks without even going out. Months went by and I started feeling so low and depressed, at the end, I was diagnosed with depression. I had no idea what caused my depression at that point. Finally I wanted to get a blood work done. I was informed by my doctor that my vitamin D level was so low, it was only 8... He said vitamin D deficiency may cause depression, I was shocked. He prescribed me with vitamin D injections, I got them every day for some time. It's almost a year later now, my level is still not great. I'm not even living up that north guys, we have so many sunny days. But vitamin D levels drop so fast. Beware and take care of yourself :)

This was so interesting! I have chronic anxiety so it was really nice seeing someone have it and then explain it. Also a very good educational video!

thanks for showing the pharmacy, I am a retired pharmacist, and enjoyed visiting the pharmacies in europe, norway, denmark, france, netherlands, germany, etc. thanks again, would love to see more.

I must be wired weird…i love darkness and gloomy cold weather. It makes me so happy. The sun feels like it’s my worst enemy. Summer and warm weather gives me anxiety where as cool and cold fall winter or rainy weather relax me and make me want to go outside more. My vitamin D has been insanely low (13 😅) for as long as I can remember because being in the sun more than a few minutes makes my skin burn and feel horrible😖 So just like some have seasonal affective disorder in winter I have it in summer😅

Moving out of Scandinavia was one of the best mental health decisions I have ever made as seasonal depression wad just so real for me

Going to Svalbard for the first time in January! Nervous, curious and excited at the same time. Let's see how I feel after 24 hours in Svalbard 🙂

A few years ago, I was just feeling SO TIRED (taking naps when I never had before, gained a bit of weight, I’d literally nap in the gym parking lot) and not myself. Finally went to the doctor with what I assumed to be the dumbest reason ever, “I just don’t feel right and I’m really tired.” It turns out my vitamin D was 9! And I live in upstate NY.

In January, I had my Vitamin D level checked pre-surgery. I was at 15! They told me to start taking 5000iu everyday for 6 weeks then drop back to 5000iu three times a week. I’m glad you had this experience so you can be better prepared for next year. Love your channel Cecilia!

As someone who lives with anxiety, this is a constant experience. I'm glad to hear people are willing to put themselves into someone else's shoes and empathize with them.

I like a rotation of seasons but anyone else love the darker, cooler months? Like right when it starts getting colder outside and the clocks go backwards. I don’t know. It gives me comfort. I would be totally fine with darkness for a few months.

I went through the same thing. I was taking naps after being awake just for a few hours, and I was having achy legs. My levels were at 17!! It was so bad but then I got prescribed a high dose of vitamin d and now its back to normal, but it was definitely a shock since I live in California!

I’m currently living in the Pacific Northwest. In February my vitamin D level was at 9 ng/ml! My doctor put me on massive doses of vitamin D, and it is now at 25. They say anything between 30 to 60 is considered optimal.

Can't even imagine living like this during Covid, and the extra anxiety that added to the lack of sun for months.

me, laughing in overnight worker and people avoidance. honestly????? this place sounds like a dream to me. two months of no sunlight is heaven to me.

I grew up in the Northwest Territories and so know about being in darkness for months. I really liked it and kind of miss the dark winters and then 25 hrs daylight summers.

Thank you for helping to fight the stigma attached to mental illness. I have battled anxiety and depression for years. Every little bit helps!

Trying to imagine _never_ having experienced generalized anxiety is impossible to me! Crazy how used to it you can get. I was a pretty happy child but became very anxious as a young teen due to some really shitty experiences, so I can't remember how the absence of it feels anymore. I'm really glad for you though - it should be the norm! General anxiety should never be a given. I live in a Nordic country too and we get long, dark winters (just not 100% darkness) so years ago I got into the habit of taking D vitamin _at least_ during the winter months. Can't imagine surviving as north as you are without it.

Greetings from Finland. We have endless sun in the summer and a long long night in the winter. In Finland Vitamin D is added for example to milk (and plant drink versions, too), but people eat it as a pill too. The winter is long and dark but we survive well 😉 Also, it is a real diagnosis to have "Seasonal depression", when you feel always depressed in the winter time only. Vitamin D can help to it, but it's not a cure. 15-20 minutes in sunlight daily is enough to get vitamin D for your body, so you don't need it if you live in a sunny place.

Cecilia, I have to say I can't even imagine living through such a long period without sunlight. I would so be moving to Portugal if I were you! I live in Wisconsin and we are subject to long period of time with overcast weather without blue sky and sunshine. It affects my mood drastically. You are very lucky to have your parents living in the beautiful country of Portugal. I enjoy your videos even though I hate the cold intensely!

I learned a bit about Seasonal Depression in Abnormal Psychology a few years ago. I think the book said that People living in New Hampshire during the winter had greater drop in mood versus people living in Northern Reykjavik. I guess because Icelanders had dealt with the harshness of hard winters for many more centuries.

I’m so glad you talked about mental health. I suffered from anxiety/panic attacks all my life until the age of 57. I decided I had to get help. The doctor prescribed an anti-depressant which has been the answer for me. I’m now 71 and I know the panic is there, just under the surface, but the medication does hold it at bay. Thank God, and I really mean that. I sympathize and empathize with anyone who has any mental problems. Thanks so much for sharing this with your audience. Love your videos.

I'm sure its more likely that its the effects of lack of sun but I would also strongly suggest getting your Thyroid tested. You listed off a LOT of the main symptoms of Thyroidism. Thank you for posting this video, thoroughly enjoyed seeing what ppl experience there.

I get so embarassingly excited whenever you post 😭

Years ago, I was having pain in my hands that wasn’t related to strain or injury. It was a burning/aching pain. I went to a rheumatologist whose first suggestion was a vitamin D test. It was so low, the dr prescribed vitamin D in 40,000 IUs, one a week for six weeks. It worked. Now I regularly have it checked. Even with living in a southern US town, being outdoors a lot, it would still drop low even in August.

So glad you’re recognizing the problem and addressing it. The greatest mistake people make is thinking that things will get better without actually doing anything to make sure they do. What I noticed is your lighting changed it’s more direct and the festive strings of lights seem to be gone. ”sleepy central” is a great description of that too tired feeling.

Those symptoms I feel every winter here in Alaska. Long dark winters only seem to get harder as I get older too. Mental health declines and about 2-3 suicides happen a week during the winter in just the Matanuska Susitna Valley alone.

Hello from Ireland. Your videos are great. I just wanted to say, if you got all your bloods done you probably got your tyroid checked but if not, you definitely should. I used to sleep all the time and I found out I had an under active thyroid. When I started to take the medication I had never felt so energetic but it levels out after a while. I also suffer from generalised anxiety disorder and anxiety really is not fun so I'm sorry you had to experience it. I hope you enjoy the brighter days to come.

What a beautiful area you live in but the polar nights terrify me personally. Growing up in California and living in Maui and Vegas for a while I’ve realized how the weather affects me in such an impactful way. My mood worsens whenever it’s cloudy/grey for too many days in a row. Thank you for sharing your experience and journey with us. This video was very eye opening. Makes me wonder how many others struggle with their mental health during seasons like this.

Winter darkness kicks my ass, and I am in NYC. I just can’t imagine how you coped at all with a complete polar night!

You know what I find really interesting? Here in Australia, where we certainly aren’t short on sunshine even during winter, there are a lot of us who are Vitamin D deficient, and it’s to do with being so careful not to get sunburnt (for the skin cancer risk), so we do too good of a job covering up haha. Fantastic video, very interesting!!

Something I experienced the one winter I was on Svalbard was migraines with aura. The doctors found no real reason for my migraines, but considering they stopped after the sun came out again and have not appeared since I came back to the mainland, my theory is that it was related to the polar night.

Hello from Portugal. Glad to know that you have visited my country. Hope you enjoyed it, especially the Portuguese sun. Love to watch your videos and to learn about such a different way of life. ❤️

I have seasonal affective disorder, in my case it’s winter depressions. That’s why your experience is so fascinating for me and I’m learning to love winter here with you 🙂

I lived in Scotland from 7 till 22 (there is barely any sun over there) I now moved to Israel where the weather is TOTALLY different... I see the massive difference in how I'm feeling compared to how I was in Scotland.

I would love living here!! I have had so many serious skin cancers I have to stay out of sun and it’s depressing, and I hate being overheated…. Darkness like this, calms my anxiety

I lived in Lapland last winter, and I never met so many depressed people, I don't think the human body is made for no daylight. The constant darkness made me so tired, it's must be even worse in Svalbard. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much for sharing this video! I live in Michigan in the U.S. and even though we have nothing like the polar night- our winters are very long and mostly sunless. From around November to as late as April we have cold temps and very cloudy days with very little sun. Add to that Day Light Savings Time when we push the clocks back an hour and by November it gets dark by 4:30 pm. I also struggle with extreme fatigue, weight gain and some anxiety during this time. I think it is so important to talk about this because it shows others that there are real physical changes that happen for people living in winter climates and it’s not just a lack of will power or being lazy. These are very real metabolic changes and just by being aware and proactive in your self care, it can make a huge difference both physically and mentally.

Very interesting video! I get depressed after a few days of cloudiness. I would probably have to be hospitalized during a polar night! It is amazing how sunlight, and vitamin D, affects our bodies in so many ways, both physically and mentally. Thanks for sharing your results of your study.

Greetings from San Diego Cecilia! 🌊☀️🌴 Thank you for being my favorite channel on KZfaq. ♥️

Thank you for saying experiencing anxiety was an eye opener for you. I suffer from at times severe anxiety and many people who never have think it's not a real issue. I find watching your vlogs very relaxing. Give Grimm hugs for me.

I admire your dedication to your health. It's taken me 65 years to get where you are now. I've found that the darkness helps you rest after a long year. As always it comes down to balance. Light and dark, above and below, inside and out.

I can honestly say I was a bit worried about you, especially after the holidays. I could definitely see a shift in your mood after that video of you throwing the tree out the door. :) I am glad you are feeling better & getting stronger. And you DO look sun-kissed! :) Marianna

I'm from India & I really can't imagine how I'd react to 2 months without sunlight. I really think it would be more of a mental than a physical effect, and its interesting that even Indians suffer from Vitamin D deficiency in a very major population.

My vit. D went down to 9. I live in CO/USA. The normal range is 30-60. They put me on 50, 000iu S&W and the other days10,000iu. It really does make a difference. ❤️🙏❤️

"I feel sun kissed" made me giggle. I live in the US, but am very pale skinned and feel sun kissed with even the slightest sprinkling of color. Lol Thank you for making such an interesting video about your experiences!

Awesome video. I was a bit low on D. My doctor told me to get a little sun. You mentioned in another video that you were taking a higher dose daily so I started to take 5000IU once a week. Much better. I actually thrive in a winter environment. Less pain, less lethargic. Guess we’re all wired differently. Sending you, Christoffer, & Grim lots of hugs and love ❤️❤️❤️

Hi Cecilia. I really enjoy your weekly videos. As a Canadian I too supplement my Vitamin D. Even in the summer I continue to take. Keep the wonderful videos with the amazing scenery coming. Cheers 🇨🇦

Just imagine, US office workers trapped in windowless office spaces (windows are for offices you never go into, for higher ups), who come in to work before the sun rises and don't get out until well after it has set. Most also don't get long enough for lunch to leave the building. Some are not even allowed to leave the building. And this is for longer than 2 months.

💕 thank you for sharing!! I appreciated this as I did something similar for myself living in Arctic Alaska. It’s so important to care for ourselves then share the information to help others! Love you all! Keep sharing these stories. ☕️☕️

This reminds me of growing up in Alaska. Couldn't wait to get to grow up and move to a warm climate!

Cecilia, you are a much stronger person than I would ever be. Thanks for sharing!

I have anxiety. I take medication to help me cope with it. I am doing much better now. I am grateful to have my medication, and to be feeling better.

low vit D is so common, even without a polar night! we spend so much time indoors that we just don't produce enough (and rightfully we should protect ourselves from sun rays because.. cancer.). I live in Italy and go outside everyday...and I had very low vit D. no wonder I was used to feeling like crap all the time! Just do this test folks!

Can you sometime show us the harbour and ships that come in to Longyearbin? Enjoy your videos! You are a wonderful ambassador for Svalbard.

Omg, the idea of perpetual nighttime and snow is so appealing to me, but then again I’m already unhealthy and mentally I’ll lol that footage of what it was like outside in the polar night was like my heaven.

Glad to see you are feeling better. I am Scottish but live in Queensland Australia so it's so interesting to learn about your life. Keep the videos coming. I love watching them. Cheers Lis xx

I live In northern west Michigan for 38 Years. Winters here are really hard. And very little sun light is common most winter days. But this here is another level!!! I would not want to do this!!! Every single year when the seasons start changing around September/October I get so many different physical and mental health changes! It definitely plays a huge role in ones body! And more so I’ve found since I turned 30, 8 years ago. Progressively harder every year! Time to move SOUTH soon! Lol

Cecilia, I’m SO glad you did this video!! I’ve been anxiously awaiting your lab results since you had them done, lol. Wow, so enlightening. I’m going to get mine checked now. I’m in Cali, but stay out of the sun. Anyway, I’m so happy you and Christoffer are feeling better! Kisses to Grim 😃☀️

Floridian here, I lived in Stockholm for 10 years and that was enough "no sun" for me. I can't imagine an entire winter on beautiful Svalbard. I'd eat cinnamon buns (Kanelbullar) every day too!

It is truly fascinating what a low Vit D level can do to the body and the psyche. So glad you and Christoffer got it checked and are on the road to feeling better. ❤️❤️

Love you and your vlogs and Svalbard. I missed Grim and Christopher I hope they are both good. Take care of yourself x

Love your content Cecilia :) :) Stunning visuals as usual !

I'm Indonesian, tropical country with 24/7 sun light. But I always in my room almost all the time. Thanks to your video because motivate me to go outside and get the sun light.

Sharing to you guys, I have MDD and anxiety. I literally don't go out of my house. I don't have any friends or any activities/hobbies to be done outside the house. Groceries, bills, and my job are done remotely. At one point I experienced having joint pains every night before sleep and my teeth were easily chipped (happened 3x in 1 month). I found out in my lab tests that my ionized calcium were at a low level, so I had to take calcium supplements for a couple of months and other meds. It was awful.

I’d like to experience zero anxiety for the first time. My body always feels like I’m about to be killed by something horrible. I don’t remember a time I’ve not felt that way, tbh. Perhaps a trip to Scandinavia might help?

I moved to Copenhagen in October 2021, this winter was SO hard. It was absolutely linked to the darker evenings and the fact that it was sooo gloomy each day. I tried to remember to take Vitamin D supplements as well as normal multivitamins. I'm not a fan of fish so I think I might need to start Omega 3 supplements too to make sure I handle "this" winter that bit better.

May I just mention how amazing your English is? As a non-native speaker of English myself-kudos to you, it’s a pleasure listening to you speak.

Be sure to take Vitamin D before afternoon each day. It helps your body produce melatonin when you're ready for bed! Also make sure you're getting K2 vitamin & the fish oil with it as well.

My levels were at 9 and it took 3.5 months of daily 5000iu doses to get to a level of 54. It’s now a daily supplement for me. I’m from NE US.

I truly want to experience this at least once in my life! Might have to make this a reality because the concept of not seeing daylight for months is truly remarkable

I live in central Sweden and I definitely get seasonal depression during winter. I mean, I have depression all year round, but my mood absolutely lifts during summer. I think the best thing for my mental health would be to move somewhere sunnier, but I'm scared of losing my social security. I have such crippling depression that I can't hold down a job... :/

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Thought I would throw this in, its not something I talk about that much. Lymphoma was found in me roughly 15 months ago with the results of me end up going onto chemotherapy for six treatments, three weeks apart. The results of the chemo are brutal, deep brain fog (among the cancer crowd the slang is "chemo brain.") very very weak, shaking hands, woozy with very poor balance, tiredness. My last chemo treatment was 1 September 2021 and so I am in recovery which is very long, I was warned by doctors and nurses, expect at least a year in recovery. Of course I didn't believe them, they were right and I was wrong - long recovery. And part of my diversion from physical ailments has been your videos. So you have been doing more good than you realize - important good. By the way, Canada also has socialized medicine so fortunately everything was free with exceptions of portions of drugs. One drug I took was $200 a pill to reduce or halt nausea as I underwent treatments. I took six pills, one for every treatment, on the day of treatment with, I'm happy to report, no nausea. And I am beginning to wonder if taking 4000 - 8000 units of vitamin D would have sped up recovery, at least in the weakness category, I will be talking to my oncologist about this. Cheers from Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

We have watched your channel for several months, my wife, daughter, and myself. Commenting first on the Vit. 3 segment. We, as a family, all take 15.000 i.u.'s (international units) daily, and have done so for about 20 years, after my endocrinologist identified low d-level as a cause for several life situations, including reduced bone-mass. No problems after about 6 weeks of use. We get all possible sun, but still need the addition. We run somewhere between 60 and 100 on the scale. It was improved when we were informed to take Vit. K2 with the d3. Make sure you get gel caps or liquid as tablets have less than 59 % absorption. Additionally, I want to share with you that I spent a lot of time around Jan Mayen and Svalbard back in the 1970's. including ice breaking for the coal shipments that occasionally got frozen in in the late season. Back then there was no airport there, but we used to load up on taxfree cigatettes to bring back to Norway. I am leaving in NY state and have lived here for over 40 years now, and my wife and I often talked about spending a few season up there in earlier days. We enjoy your videos. Keep it up.

I have vitamin D deficiency living in Switzerland with 8 hours of daylight during winter and spending much time in the sun. My doctor says I can take 8000-10’000 U.I a week without problems during winter. Mine is on oil base.

True. You are like sunshine with your mood always. Even 2.5 months of darkness couldn’t take you down.

Your videos are so enjoyable to watch💛

Your videos always relax and ground me, something I’ve especially needed this past year or so. Thank you for your beautiful content, I hope you know how much it helps. 🙏🏼

I live in Canada, seasonal depression is very real and rampant in Canada, especially the East coast and central Canada. This winter was rough (22'23 winter) we went well over 45 days without seeing the sun. One thing I was sujrprised to not here you talk about is the fact that when taking vitamin D it is imparative to also take k2. taking D alone is definitly not optimal. 4000 Iu of D3 + k2 is ideally taken in the am or lunch time. I could not take going so long in total darkness, my husband is jsut two years away from retirement and when he does we will be gone from the cold HARSH Canadian winters which are so hard on us as we age. When I was younger they definitly did not impact me as greatly as they do today, I am 55. This was an interesting video.

I feel your pain with the skin colour comments. I remember being at a party after living in the middle East for about a year and felt I looked the healthiest I'd ever looked, and someone came up to me and said 'your skin is so pale it glows'. charmed!

Do you think having had covid affected your overall health and vitamin D during polar nights?

Without light I'm sluggish, sure, but without dark I actually go insane. The constant light during northern summers is TORTURE.

I love your English. As a non native speaker I’m improving my listening 👂 skills. And I’m proud to say that I can understand around a 90% of what you said. Is so easy and nice hear you. There is a lot native speakers that i can’t even understand.

Our low vitiman D level is 30 in the US!! I like your scale much better! I have been down to 9 a few years ago. Yes, 9. What really helped is when I stopped eating all carbs and sugar for 2 weeks. I think it starved off the bad microbiome that was using up my vitamin D. It also really helped me with my overactive bladder. Really great video! Thank you!

My vitamin d levels went down this winter as well. I'm from Eau Claire Wisconsin USA. As I have gotten older I have a harder time keeping them up. So I supplement with vitamin d as well. I loved the view. Absolutely stunning.💗

Any idea how it affected Grim? I would assume dogs don’t get away unscathed. Perhaps the animals that are from the North Pole are different though. Yeah Cecelia you didn’t seem yourself this winter. Please take good care of you and the fam!!!! Love from Long Island, New York.