Vitamin D and the immune system
I just listened to your latest premium podcast on respiratory illnesses in the fall and winter and I didn’t hear mention of the low levels of Vitamin D that usually occur when the daylight lessens. Do you believe that this documented fact could also lead to the increased susceptibility to respiratory illnesses?
Domestic Violence and Brain Injury
I recently attended a training on DV and brain injury. It has been a largely neglected intersection that is huge and severely impactful on survivors’ lives, including ability to access resources and care. Rachel Ramirez of the Ohio Domestic Violence Network has provided much training to healthcare professionals and DV advocates to increase awareness of how prevalent it is, how to recognize it, and how to accommodate it for the past 10 years at least. I really think it could be a useful podcast episode, and she would be a great interviewee. There are many special considerations such as the lack of conditions conducive to healing after injury when someone is in an abusive relationship (low stress and rest aren’t possible), the repetitiveness of the head trauma, the presence of strangulation (often over and over) which isn’t common in other areas of violence/brain injury causes (very specific to DV), and how it affects the ability to get away, access resources, etc. I hope you consider reaching out to her. It’s her mission to spread awareness and giving her a platform could really benefit survivors of domestic violence. Her email is rachelr@odvn.org Thanks, Josh Watkins