I didn’t see the baby put them in there, but imagining it makes me teary eyed. So sweet and cute. #toddlermom #preciousmoments #theygrowupsofast #goldfishcracker #abiiehighchair

THANK YOU for sending them out anyway! I don’t care if you’re running behind—I’m happy to hear from you anytime of the year! #christmascards #holidaycards #momchaos #momstress #momoverwhelm

Replying to @InedibleArrangementsMary . Vitamin D deficiency comes from: 1. Being indoors: Early humans spent much more time in the sun, but many of us are in homes, offices, and cars. . 2. High melanin: Humans who left sunny, equatorial areas of Africa lost melanin to make sure they would still get enough sunlight, but many highly melanated people now live in Europe, USA, and other non-equatorial areas that get less sunlight. 3. High fat %: Fat cells pull Vitamin D out of the bloodstream, so having a high body fat % can reduce a person’s circulating Vitamin D. 4. Aging: As we get older our kidneys aren’t as good at changing Vitamin D into its active form. 5. Disorders: Digestive and hormonal disorders like celiac or PCOS can interfere with Vitamin D levels. PCOS and Low Vitamin D Scientists don’t know why over two-thirds of women with PCOS also have Vitamin D deficiency. However, I noticed that black and latino women are much more likely to have PCOS than white women. So perhaps melanin is reducing vitamin D levels, not the PCOS itself. I also noticed that PCOS can cause weight gain, which might provide more fat cells to pull Vitamin D out of circulation. I speculate that the disproportionate representation of highly melanated and higher fat % people might explain the correlation between PCOS and Vitamin D. We won’t know for sure until more research is available. Increasing Vitamin D 1. More sunlight Around 90% of our Vitamin D comes from sunlight, specifically intense, high noon sunlight. Consider standing in the high noon sunlight for short periods each day. Spend less than the amount of time it takes to get a sunburn, say 5 minutes, every day around noon. You can increase your tolerance over time by, say, adding one minute each week. Keep in mind that you might need to shorten the time as summer brightens. Do NOT get a sunburn. The risk of skin cancer should not increase unless sun exposure is suddenly intense, especially if it causes sunburns. For example, an office worker who regularly gets little sunlight should not lay in the sun on the beach for 8 hours on a vacation. However a person who works in the sun for 8 hours everyday doesn’t have the increased risk of skin cancer from the same vacation that the office worker has. 2. Supplements: These might not be as absorbable as the Vitamin D in whole foods. 3. Diet: Salmon, tuna, sardines, milk, butter, cheese, eggs, and shiitake mushrooms are all high in Vitamin D. 4. Fortified foods: Some cereals, orange juice, and other foods have Vitamin D added to them. Similar to a supplement. Ask your doctor before making any medical decisions. Copyright 2024 Tutor Tori, Inc. All rights reserved. Tutor Tori TM is a trademark of Tutor Tori, Inc. #tutortorimoms #motherhoodscience #householdscience #asktutortori #torisparentingtips #tutortoriparents #momscience #vitamind #vitamins #sunscreen #skincancer #sunburn #melanin #pcos #blackwoman

#duet with @Joy #fyp Eldest Daughter Syndrome is a social phenomenon in which the oldest child has lifelong positive and negative effects from being given additional responsibilities during childhood. We tend to take more responsibilities for people around them in adulthood, have better organizational skills, more anxiety, more codependency, and more burnout. We may also be overbearing toward others, especially our siblings, which may interfere with their ability to form healthy interdependent relationships. This disproportionately affects girls because we are more likely than boys to be assigned additional domestic and caretaking duties. #eldestdaughtersyndrome #parentification #parentifiedchild #overbearing

Replying to @Motherhood Science Host Let’s start with the periodic table and build our way up to Vitamin D and sunlight. The periodic table shows us the basic elements or atoms everything in the universe is made of, like Lego pieces. Our universe has 92 Legos that occur naturally. For example, water has three atoms of two types, two elements, which are two hydrogens and one oxygen. Groups of atoms are called molecules, so this is one water molecule. Your whole body is made of molecules and your body is constantly making countless types of molecules to keep you alive. But there are thirteen molecules you need to stay alive that your body can’t make by itself. Those are vitamins. That’s what a vitamin is. Vitamins are molecules, groups of atoms from the periodic table, that your body needs to stay alive, that it can’t make by itself. So you have to eat them! Like for Vitamin A, you could eat carrots. For Vitamin D, you could eat salmon But you can also can make it using sunlight. So light is a form of energy. And when intense high frequency light from the high noon sun hits your skin, it literally punches through your skin and smashes the molecules inside your skin. Too much smashing is a sunburn. Smashing DNA molecules can be cancer. Smashing a special type of cholesterol molecule, turns that molecule into Vitamin D. ===== Periodic table image: R.A. Dragoset, A. Musgrove, C.W. Clark, and W.C. Martin — NIST. Public Domain per US gov. Lego image: Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC Copyright 2024 Tutor Tori, Inc. All rights reserved. Tutor Tori TM is a trademark of Tutor Tori, Inc. #tutortorimoms #motherhoodscience #householdscience #asktutortori #torisparentingtips #tutortoriparents #momscience #vitamind #vitamins #sunscreen #skincancer #sunburn #periodictableofelements #atoms