Sunlight - Is It Good Or Bad For You



(Compiled by Mike Adams, based on an interview with Dr. Michael Holick, author, The UV Advantage)

Vitamin D prevents osteoporosis, depression, prostate cancer, breast cancer and even effects diabetes and obesity. Vitamin D is perhaps the single most underrated nutrient in the world of nutrition. That's probably because it's free: your body makes it when sunlight touches your skin. Drug companies can't sell you sunlight, so there's no promotion of its health bene€ts. Truth is, most people don't know the real story on vitamin D and health. So here's an overview taken from an interview between Mike Adams and Dr. Michael Holick.

1. Vitamin D is produced by your skin in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation from natural sunlight.

2. The healing rays of natural sunlight (that generate vitamin D in your skin) cannot penetrate glass. So you don't generate vitamin D when sitting in your car or home.

3. It is nearly impossible to get adequate amounts of vitamin D from your diet. Sunlight exposure is the only reliable way to generate vitamin D in your own body.

4. A person would have to drink ten tall glasses of vitamin D forti€ed milk each day just to get minimum levels of vitamin D into their diet.

5. The further you live from the equator, the longer exposure you need to the sun in order to generate vitamin D. Canada, the UK and most U.S. states are far from the equator.

6. People with dark skin pigmentation may need 20 - 30 times as much exposure to sunlight as fair-skinned people to generate the same amount of vitamin D. That's why prostate cancer is epidemic among black men -- it's a simple, but widespread, sunlight de€ciency.

7. Suf€cient levels of vitamin D are crucial for calcium absorption in your intestines. Without suf€cient vitamin D, your body cannot absorb calcium, rendering calcium supplements useless.

8. Chronic vitamin D de€ciency cannot be reversed overnight: it takes months of vitamin D supplementation and sunlight exposure to rebuild the body's bones and nervous system.

9. Even weak sunscreens (SPF=8) block your body's ability to generate vitamin D by 95%. This is how sunscreen products actually cause disease -- by creating a critical vitamin de€ciency in the body.

10. It is impossible to generate too much vitamin D in your body from sunlight exposure: your body will self-regulate and only generate what it needs.

11. If it hurts to press €rmly on your sternum, you may be suffering from chronic vitamin D de€ciency right now.

12. Vitamin D is "activated" in your body by your kidneys and liver before it can be used.

13. Having kidney disease or liver damage can greatly impair your body's ability to activate circulating vitamin D.

14. The sunscreen industry doesn't want you to know that your body actually needs sunlight exposure because that realization would mean lower sales of sunscreen products.

15. Even though vitamin D is one of the most powerful healing chemicals in your body, your body makes it absolutely free. No prescription required.

On the issue of sunlight exposure, by the way, it turns out that super antioxidants greatly boost your body's ability to handle sunlight without burning. Astaxanthin is one of the most powerful "internal sunscreens" and can allow you to stay under the sun twice as long without burning. Other powerful antioxidants with this ability include the superfruits like Acai, Pomegranates (POM Wonderful juice), blueberries, etc.


Diseases and Conditions Caused by Vitamin D De€ciency:

·  Osteoporosis is commonly caused by a lack of vitamin D, which greatly impairs calcium absorption.

·  Suf€cient vitamin D prevents prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, depression, colon cancer and schizophrenia.

·  "Rickets" is the name of a bone-wasting disease caused by vitamin D de€ciency.

·  Vitamin D de€ciency may exacerbate type 2 diabetes and impair insulin production in the pancreas.

·  Obesity impairs vitamin D utilization in the body, meaning obese people need twice as much vitamin D

·  Vitamin D is used around the world to treat Psoriasis.

·  Vitamin D de€ciency causes schizophrenia.

·  Seasonal Affective Disorder is caused by a melatonin imbalance initiated by lack of exposure to sunlight.

·  Chronic vitamin D de€ciency is often misdiagnosed as €bromyalgia because its symptoms are so similar: muscle weakness, aches and pains.

·  Your risk of developing serious diseases like diabetes and cancer is reduced 50% - 80% through simple, sensible exposure to natural sunlight 2-3 times each week.

·  Infants who receive vitamin D supplementation (2000 units daily) have an 80% reduced risk of developing type 1 diabetes over the next twenty years.

Shocking Vitamin D De€ciency Statistics:


·  32% of doctors and med school students are vitamin D de€cient.

·  40% of the U.S. population is vitamin D de€cient.

·  42% of African American women of childbearing age are de€cient in vitamin D.

·  48% of young girls (9-11 years old) are vitamin D de€cient.

·  Up to 60% of all hospital patients are vitamin D de€cient.

·  76% of pregnant mothers are severely vitamin D de€cient, causing widespread vitamin D de€ciencies in their unborn children, which predisposes them to type 1 diabetes, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and

·  schizophrenia later in life. 81% of the children born to these mothers were de€cient.

·  Up to 80% of nursing home patients are vitamin D de€cient.


What You Can Do:
Sensible exposure to natural sunlight is the simplest, easiest and yet one of the most important strategies for improving your health. I urge you to read the book, "The UV Advantage" by Dr. Michael Holick to get the full story on natural sunlight. You can €nd this book at most local bookstores or through BN.com, Amazon.com, etc. Note: This is not a paid endorsement or an af€liate link. I recommend it because of its great importance in preventing chronic disease and enhancing health without drugs or surgery. This may be the single most important book on health you ever read. If more people understood this information, we could drastically reduce the rates of chronic disease in this country and around the world. Sunlight exposure is truly one of the most powerful healing therapies in the world, far surpassing the best efforts of today's so-called "advanced medicine." There is no drug, no surgical procedure, and no high-tech procedure that comes even close to the astonishing healing power of natural sunlight. And you can get it free of charge. That's why nobody's promoting it, of course.

Source: www.naturalnews.com

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Susan commented on 20-Aug-2009 08:56 AM5 out of 5 stars
Thank you for confirming what I've allways felt about the sun... and thanks for your newsletter
Anonymous commented on 21-Jan-2010 12:09 AM5 out of 5 stars
Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly, if the sun causes cancer no one would have lived past Adam and Eve.
Connie Jicha commented on 17-Feb-2010 10:13 PM5 out of 5 stars
I've gone through a tremendous year without knowing what was happening to me (and I'm a nurse)!After researching myself I insisted that my PA draw for Vit D difficiency. A year later I'm being treated for osteoporosis and I'm only 52 and an advid excercise buff. Currently I'm taking 50000 UI of Vit D weekly. Are tanning booths ok? I live in Wisconsin and we go several days with out sunlight.
John commented on 13-Jul-2010 09:08 PM5 out of 5 stars
Seems amazing we have so lost our way that we are asking such questions about the benefit of the sun in our lives. Connie asked about tanning booths, so have attached link to Mike Adams article and video, which will hopefully help.

http://www.naturalnews.com/029146_sun_exposure_skin_cancer.html

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=234


Felix Tam commented on 01-Sep-2010 01:25 PM5 out of 5 stars
Bravo, thanks to mother nature.
deyn commented on 01-Sep-2010 04:14 PM5 out of 5 stars
very good easy to follow lets hope people start taking it in
Anonymous commented on 13-Sep-2010 01:56 AM5 out of 5 stars
OK, but are there any alternative Dvitamin sources? I mean food? I live in a country where sun is max 1 mnth per year - others are just... clouds. So what else could I do? I have psoriasis, so it is quite important for me
Juliann commented on 04-Aug-2011 11:30 PM5 out of 5 stars
What about tanning beds? Can you get vitamin D by tanning in one? Or is it just from the sun? Just curious.
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