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Vitamin D has been shown to effect endothelial tissue and low vitamin D status has been linked to endothelial dysfunction in several studies. Endothelial dysfunction is thought to be the major cause of Erectile Dysfunction (ED). Last month a paper originally published in August of this year by Dr. Alessandra Barassi and colleagues over at the San Paolo Hospital, University of Milan, Italy, appeared in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. They looked at Vitamin D status in a cohort of 143 men diagnosed with clinical ED. Diagnosis and severity of ED was based upon the IEFF-5 assessment score system and men were classified as either arteriogeinc, borderline aretriogenic or non-nrteriogenic using Echo Color Doppler. Doppler readings were take while flaccid and after a single Prostaglandin 1E injection to cause spontaneous erection. This allowed for the Doppler to view a blood-engorged Corpus Cavernosum and classify the men. Both serum 25-OH-D and Parathyroid hormone...

So what ever it is.. it's working. Monsanto's 4th quarter earning showed a narrow loss for their end of year report. Their Fiscal Year ended in August.  But don't interpret that as "we are winning". Not at all! According to Reuters News Service:    "Quarterly revenue totaled $2.6 billion, up from $2.2 billion a year ago. Its fourth quarter loss narrowed to $156 million, or 31 cents a share, from $249 million, or 47 cents a share, a year earlier. The most recent quarter included a charge of 4 cents per share related to an environmental settlement. The loss on an ongoing basis was 27 cents a share, slightly worse than the 24 cent loss that analysts expected, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S." This isn't all rosey for those of us who want to see Monsanto sucumb to the pressures of a society who do not want more FrankenFood!...

The United States and Canada are still allowing air travel from the nations of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia where the Ebola epidemic is centered. About 150 people each day fly from those three countries to the US. Meanwhile South Africa and a host of other African countries have closed off flights from the three West African countries, but the United States and Canada have not. What's wrong with this picture? If our government really wanted to protect its people why are we still allowing these passengers in? Why hasn't the CDC ordered a lock-down?  As I write this is was just announced that a Sudanese man just died in Germany of Ebola. Government better move fast to block passengers arriving from known hotbeds of the Ebola virus before they put more of thew world at risk. Its the minimum they can do to protect the citizens they were hired to...