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The Best Time of Day to Take Your Vitamins, According to Experts

The older I get, the more supplements there are taking up space on my kitchen counter: vitamin D for immunity, B12 for energy, a multivitamin for, well, you name it, the list goes on.

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The Best Time of Day to Take Your Vitamins, According to Experts
The older I get, the more supplements there are taking up space on my kitchen counter: vitamin D for immunity, B12 for energy, a multivitamin for, well, you name it, the list goes on. For many of us, vitamin-taking has always been a morning thing, starting with our mothers handing them over with breakfast before school. Most days, I remember to take them with my coffee. Other days, I don't think about them until I'm cleaning up the kitchen before bed, and then spot the bottles, practically shaming me for having forgotten them. And that's when I wonder: If I take them before I go to sleep, will it make me sick? Does it affect their absorption? To find out, I asked the pros, and here's what they said we need to know to get the most out of our daily vitamins.
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Why You Should Care About Your Skin Barrier
Most of us think of aging skin simply as the emergence of deep-rooted wrinkles. In reality, the process begins much closer to the surface. Long before those lines appear, the outermost layers of your skin start to lose the ability to stay hydrated, resilient, and even-toned. As we age, skin naturally becomes thinner, produces less oil, and loses elasticity. These changes weaken the skin barrier, making it more vulnerable to everyday stressors like sun exposure, pollution, dry air, and harsh skincare ingredients. When the barrier struggles, skin doesn't just look older, it often feels more reactive, dry, and uneven, too.
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5 Vegetables You Should Never Buy Frozen
Frozen vegetables are tasty to eat, and can be even better for you than fresh. But there are some veggies you shouldn't buy frozen. If you grow them at home, don't attempt to freeze them yourself, either. Most of these veggies have the same root issue: they're high in water content and end up mushy or slimy after you thaw them.
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How hot is lightning?

"Hot" is an understatement.

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Lightning can heat the air to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

"How hot is lightning?" is a bit of a trick question. Lightning itself doesn't have a temperature, because it's just the movement of electrical charges in the atmosphere. But that doesn't stop lightning from heating up whatever it passes through — in this case, air. Air is a poor conductor of electricity, so it heats up tremendously when lightning strikes. In fact, "tremendously" might be an understatement.

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Why Getting Up From Your Chair Becomes More Difficult as You Age

Some people in their 70s, 80s, even 90s are active and mobile. Others their same age struggle just to get out of a chair. Research from Harvard University found out why: it's "Joint Drought," an underlying condition that dries out your joints from within. When you address the "drought," your joints feel younger and you become more mobile than you've been in years.

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Lightning never strikes the same spot twice.

__ experiences the most lightning per square mile of any U.S. state.

 

People used to think that ringing church bells repelled lightning.

There's a good reason why some church bells still have the words "fulgura frango" inscribed on them. The phrase, Latin for "I break up lightning," is evidence of a superstition dating back to the medieval era: that ringing church bells prevented lightning strikes. You might be able to guess how the superstition was proved to be just that — a great many bell-ringers were struck by lightning — but the belief persisted until the late 18th century. It's far from the only way people once tried to repel lightning, of course. Europeans used to plant Sempervivum tectorum, also called houseleek or hens and chicks, on the roofs of houses and churches in the belief that it somehow prevented lightning and fire.

Today's edition of Interesting Facts was written by Michael Nordine and edited by Bess Lovejoy.

 
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