My name is Darcy Elliott and I’m excited to finally get this blog going! I’ve built and maintained several web sites over the past 10 years. I’ve run a successful on line sports card trading community for the past 9 years and very much enjoy the interaction that type of community forum provides. For the past 2 years I’ve been eagerly studying and dabbling with all of the new communication tools that the “Web 2.0″ has to offer, tools such as this blog, facebook, digg, stumbleupon, etc. I also manage my wife’s health care clinic. Her name is Patricia Elliott ND. In addition, I have a Masters Degree in acupuncture and specialize in treating sports injuries. Truth be told, I spend so much time helping run my wife’s practice, operating my Internet business, and homeschooling our kids, that I do very little acupuncture at this time. That being said, I’ve always had a keen interest in health and fitness so I anticipate this blog being an interesting and rewarding thing to add to my weekly workload. I also spend about 3/4 of the year outside in the sunshine coaching baseball - yet still my own vitamin D levels were low!

So, why a vitamin D blog?

One of the things my wife started doing in early 2007 was encouraging her patients to check their vitamin D levels, the results were eye-opening to say the least. I’d estimate that over 95% of her patients had abnormally low levels of vitamin D! This shocking revelation inspired me to start tracking the news headlines about this problem. As a way to share what I was finding with her patients I started printing out my findings and posting them on the bulletin board in our waiting area. Within a very short time I had to add a second bulletin board (which is now also full), hence the creation of this blog. My objective with this blog is to post news headlines and information about what certainly seems like an epidemic problem, vitamin D deficiency. This blog will help free up some space on our waiting room bulletin board since all of the news articles I find will now be posted here instead. I also plan to post some of the clinical observations my wife is seeing with the vitamin D testing she’s continuing to do in her medical practice at our clinic.

I hope you enjoy this blog!

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