SUN + VITAMIN D

It’s widely overused – and loaded with a brew of toxic ingredients that pummel human fertility, impair your neurons and threaten coral reefs.

First off, let me make it very clear that sunscreen is widely overused. There are some circumstances where it is wise and appropriate to use but those cases are few and far between. For the most part, you just need to avoid the sunscreen and rely on sensible sun exposure. Get out of the sun or wear clothing the moment your skin starts to turn light pink.

Throughout my training and practice as a physician, I have come to one very disappointing conclusion:  Western medicine isn’t helping people lead better lives. Now that I’ve realized this, I’ve become obsessed with understanding what makes us healthy or ill. I want to live the best life I can and I want to be able to share this knowledge with others so that they can do the same. This podcast is the result of my relentless search to understand the roots of chronic disease. If you want to know how to live the most radical life possible I hope you’ll join me on this journey.

Health care offi cials’ recommendations to avoid sun exposure unless you’re slathered insunscreen have deprived humans of their fundamental need for sunlight. In the videoabove, Dr. Paul Saladino, author of “The Carnivore Code,” a book on nose-to-tail animal-based eating, and host of the Fundamental Health Podcast, delves into the manyreasons why sunlight is so essential it could even be described as a nutrient.

A PDF source for you on some great Vitamin D information and Resources.

Are you dying in the Dark?  

If you avoid the sun, you may be ruining your health. 

Sun avoidance may be as dangerous to your health as cigarette smoking. 

In the early 1900s the sun was used to cure many ailments. Nurses would roll beds outside so patients could get a healthful dose of sunlight. Why did we stop?

You follow your doctor's recommendations, dutifully putting on sunscreen or staying out of the sun. You take recommended supplements, maybe even vitamin D, but is this truly the best for your health?

Authors Marc B. Sorenson and William B. Grant say, "No." Embrace the Sun presents information from over 1,200 research papers that show regular sun may prolong your life and remarkably reduce your likelihood of disease. What is this research? Why does my doctor not know it? Why has our culture had such an about-face regarding the sun? Is the sun really a demon?

Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to increased risk for many common and serious diseases, including some common cancers, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and osteoporosis. Deficiency is also prevalent in infants who are solely breastfed and who do not receive Vitamin D supplementation. Adults of all ages who have darker skin (increased skin melanin) or who always wear sun protection or limit their outdoor activities, such as homebound elderly persons, are also prone to Vitamin D deficits.

However the sun is central to our well being and health. Did you know that:

• designing and building sunlit houses can help prevent disease, make us feel happier and save energy

• sunlight can help prevent and heal many common and often fatal diseases like breast cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis and osteoporosis

• before antibiotics, sunlight was used successfully to speed up the healing of wounds

• tanning moderately throughout the year is better than avoiding the sun altogether

• sudden bursts of strong solar radiation are unnatural and dangerous, protection needs to be built up slowly

• early morning sunlight in cool temperatures is particularly beneficial to the body

• sunlit hospital rooms provide a better environment for the treatment of clinically depressed people

• prolonged exposure to artificial light puts the body under great stress

• large numbers of people may be compromising their health through sunlight deficiency

• there is a substantial body of historical and contemporary evidence that suggests moderate sunbathing is far more beneficial than we are currently led to believe

Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to increased risk for many common and serious diseases, including some common cancers, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and osteoporosis. Deficiency is also prevalent in infants who are solely breastfed and who do not receive Vitamin D supplementation. Adults of all ages who have darker skin (increased skin melanin) or who always wear sun protection or limit their outdoor activities, such as homebound elderly persons, are also prone to Vitamin D deficits.

If you avoid the sun, you may be ruining your health.

Sun avoidance is as hazardous to your health as smoking.

In the early 1900s, nurses would roll beds outside so patients could get a healthful dose of sunlight. Why did we stop?

You are following your doctor’s recommendations, dutifully putting on sunscreen or staying out of the sun. You take recommended supplements, maybe even vitamin D, but is this truly the best for your health?

GrassrootsHealth is a nonprofit public health research organization dedicated to moving public health messages regarding vitamin D from research into practice. It has a panel of 48 senior vitamin D researchers from around the world contributing to its operations. GrassrootsHealth is currently running the D*action field trial to solve the vitamin D deficiency epidemic worldwide. Under the D*action umbrella, there are also targeted programs for breast cancer prevention and a ‘Protect Our Children NOW!’ program to stop vitamin D deficiency where it starts, in utero.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

Both ultraviolet A (UVA) and the near-infrared light spectrum increase NO. Sunlight also boosts cytochrome c oxidase, serotonin, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and other photoproducts, all of which are produced even in the wintertime when the sunlight is too weak to trigger vitamin D production

Your body is designed to benefit from sun exposure, and if you’re diabetic or have heart disease, it may well be one of the missing factors. Sunlight also lowers your risk for many other conditions, including Type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis and several types of cancer, including melanoma

For every death caused by diseases related to excessive sun exposure — such as melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer — there are 328 deaths caused by diseases of sunlight deprivation

For every skin cancer death in northern Europe, between 60 and 100 people die from stroke or heart disease related to hypertension

If you take supplemental vitamin D3, you also need to be mindful of taking extra vitamin K2 and magnesium

It’s important to increase your vitamin K2 intake when taking high-dose supplemental vitamin D to avoid complications associated with excessive arterial calcification

You need 146% more vitamin D to achieve a blood level of 40 ng/ml (100 nmol/L) if you do not take supplemental magnesium, compared to taking your vitamin D with at least 400 mg of magnesium per day

Vitamin D improves magnesium absorption, but taking large doses of vitamin D can deplete magnesium, as magnesium is required in the conversion of vitamin D into its active form

Combined intake of both supplemental magnesium and vitamin K2 has a greater effect on vitamin D levels than either individually. You need 244% more oral vitamin D if you’re not concomitantly taking magnesium and vitamin K2

Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific, controversial new research suggests—and quite possibly even racist. How did we get it so wrong?

If there was one supplement that seemed sure to survive the rigorous tests, it was vitamin D. People with low levels of vitamin D in their blood have significantly higher rates of virtually every disease and disorder you can think of: cancer, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, heart attack, stroke, depression, cognitive impairment, autoimmune conditions, and more. The vitamin is required for calcium absorption and is thus essential for bone health, but as evidence mounted that lower levels of vitamin D were associated with so many diseases, health experts began suspecting that it was involved in many other biological processes as well.

Ensuring your immune system is robust is crucial, but obtaining enough high-quality Vitamin D through the diet or sunshine alone can be difficult if not impossible. Vitamin D3: High-Potency Liquid is a convenient, high-potency liquid formula to quickly and easily add the benefits of Vitamin D3 to your day. This easy to digest, fat-soluble formulation tastes good and has been proven to enhance absorbtion and utilization in the body.

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Rates of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, have been rising for at least thelast three decades, and this increase has been largely blamed on exposure to ultraviolet(UV) light from the sun.

However, research published in the

British Journal of Dermatology

shows that the sun islikely nothing more than a scapegoat in the development of melanoma, and the sharpincrease may actually be “an artifact caused by diagnostic drift.”