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As we're heading into fall, kids are going back to school, they're going to get exposed to each other and all kinds of things they're going to pass around, whatever. So I want you to be prepared for what to do, what to have on hand if and when the kids are exposed. So I'm going to start with a couple things to do in preparation for this and hopefully you're not watching this too late. Vitamin D is very important just like it is for adults. It's difficult to know what the kid's level of vitamin D is. I mean it's easy to do a blood test on an adult. You can do a blood test on a child, but you can reason with some children better than others and I certainly understand that. So if you can get your child to sit for a vitamin D blood test, ask your pediatrician for it or call us, we'll put in an order at Lab Corp.

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You can go by and get it done, but then you would know their numbers just like an adult. You want the child's vitamin D level number one to be above...

Hey there. So another installment obviously today I want to talk to you about kind of heading into the fall. Kids are going back to school. That means that they're going to be bringing junk home to the parents that they've all shared with each other at school. Parents are going to bring that to work. Then we all share with each other. So I wanted to take a minute and remind you, this is mid-August, but as we get into September and closer into October, we're going to be getting into bronchitis and sore throat and sinus kind of season. We'll have a whole round of allergies in the fall as well. So let's go ahead and talk about what to do to kind of prime your immune system and get it ready for this first, a couple of preventative things. Number one, make sure your vitamin D is where it needs to be.

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Vitamin D is hugely important for how your immune system functions, especially in its role of an initial response, anti-inflammatory, anti autoimmune, kind of ad...