I didn't get a chance to say on the radio today how important vitamin D is to people of color. Vitamin D discriminates racially. Darker-skinned people have a bigger problem because the ultraviolet rays are blocked by melanin in the skin. So African-Americans, for example, really, really need to take vitamin D to be healthy. The other side of this situation is that I, who am almost an albino, have to wear sun block if I go to Africa.

And you see very high rates of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and arthritis in the African-American population of Buffalo. I don't think this is some kind of genetic thing, or some kind of supernatural curse - this is just vitamin D working in its hundred different ways.