By Daniel Brouse A human’s main source of Vitamin D is the synthesis of UVB radiation through your skin. The chemical reaction creates Vitamin D and other photoproducts essential for a healthy immune system. Taking a Vitamin D supplement is NOT the same as your body making Vitamin D. How You Photosynthesize (And Why a […]
Category Archives: Environment
COVID: Vitamin D, Sunlight, the Season, and People of Color
COVID: Treatment?
By Daniel Brouse This is an interview with Ade Wentzel. Ade is a doctor and scientist working with COVID hospitals. I met Ade in a COVID survivors group. Though I did not know it at the time, I survived COVID in February of 2020. It was only months later that I figured out something was […]
COVID, Vitamin D, Health, and Wellness
By Daniel Brouse Vitamin D Essentials Vitamin D helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in the body. These nutrients are needed to keep bones, teeth and muscles healthy.[1] Vitamin D is both a nutrient we eat and a hormone our bodies make. The active form of vitamin D tempers the damaging inflammatory response […]
COVID-19 and Negative Feedback Loops
As more time passes and more information is gathered on the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, there is growing evidence that any infection from COVID-19 may cause chronic damage to your body. Negative Feedback Loops The more often your body suffers damage, than the more severe each additional exposure will become. After you recover from COVID, there […]
Residential Real Estate Flood Risk Information
Do you know if you need flood insurance? Do you know if you have flood insurance? What happens when your house gets flooded? Flood risk information has not been readily available to the average consumer. Climate change is making your flood risk drastically increase. Now, one of the major real estate databases (Realtor.com) is making […]
Greenland Ice Sheet: largest single contributor to rising sea levels.
Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheetdriven by sustained glacier retreat by Michalea D. King, Ian M. Howat, Salvatore G. Candela, Myoung J. Noh, Seonsgu Jeong, Brice P. Y. Noël, Michiel R. van den Broeke3, Bert Wouters, Adelaide Negrete Greenland-Ice-Sheet.pdf The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass at accelerated rates in the 21st century, […]
Methane Emissions Soar to Record High
Methane is one of the most dangerous greenhouse gases… and, is part of an exponential negative feedback loop: Methane in the atmosphere causes the climate to warm A warmer climate causes permafrost to melt… Releasing more methane and CO2… Making the climate warmer… Melting more permafrost… Releasing more methane and CO2… Melting, more permafrost, etc., […]
Far More Properties At Risk: Flood Insurance Exposure
The last link is a map that lets you find flood risk exposed properties by zipcode Far more properties at flood risk than estimated: ” far more U.S. homes — an estimated 14.6 million — face flooding conditions on par with those in FEMA’s 100-year floodplain. In contrast, FEMA’s maps classify 8.7 million homes as […]
Climate Change and Mortgage Change
New York Times By Christopher Flavelle June 19, 2020 Rising Seas Threaten an American Institution: The 30-Year Mortgage Climate change is starting to transform the classic home loan, a fixture of the American experience and financial system that dates back generations. WASHINGTON — Up and down the coastline, rising seas and climate change are transforming […]
Climate Change 2020
Our Infrastructure Is Being Built for a Climate That’s Already Gone Our drain pipes, reservoirs, power lines, roads, sewage systems, and more are all designed based on past climate data. But with the climate crisis comes the uncomfortable realization that the past can’t predict what we’ll need in the future. by Shayla Love Jun 2 […]