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Loading ...According to Boston University researchers, between 30 to 50% of children and adults in the United States are at high risk for vitamin D deficiency. Experts believe that sensible exposure to sun may be the best way to deal with this preventable medical condition. Learn what 6 serious health conditions are helped by sunlight and vitamin D.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...In this article Dr. Soram Khalsa states “As a board certified internist, I have chosen, for the last 30 years, to take a personalized approach in my practice of integrative medicine. I have worked with literally hundreds of herbs, vitamins and dietary supplements, to help my patients, often when drugs did not work. In all this time, I have not seen one nutritional supplement that has the power to affect human health as much as vitamin D. This is because Vitamin D is not actually a vitamin – it is a hormone that has the ability to interact and affect more than 2,000 genes in the body.”
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...We’ve heard countless times that sunlight causes skin cancer. We’ve also seen that there is little or even no scientific evidence to support the claim that sunlight causes skin cancer. It appears to be a rather clever marketing pitch for sunscreen. In this article by the University of California, San Francisco, we learn that sunlight actually helps to prevent skin cancer. The scientific evidence is in: “the sun may not be entirely the enemy some people think it is…vitamin D that sunlight helps the body create may help prevent a number of cancers, including skin cancer.”
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Health Ranger Mike Adams presents a shocking report. Despite widespread scientific studies proving that sunlight and vitamin D reduce risk of cancer, the American Cancer Society refuses to recommend sunlight or vitamin D supplements in their fight against cancer. The American Cancer Society is America’s largest “non-profit” corporation, yet has ties to major pharmaceutical companies. Let Health Ranger Mike Adams educate you about the benefits of sunlight and vitamin D.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...With all of the remarkable health benefits of sunlight and vitamin D, why haven’t governments and federal health organizations been supporting the sunlight vitamin? Studies keep piling up that prove vitamin D’s amazing health benefits in nearly every area of human health. An still vitamin D receives little or no media attention. Why is this?
In this in-depth article by Sam Apple, we learn the reason why governments are unlikely to support a vitamin gotten from the sun. Could it be greed for money? Inability to regulate and control something as natural as sunlight? Is it lack of research or funding? Or perhaps upsetting the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry? Learn how deep the rabbit hole goes in this article by Sam Apple.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This article by “The Health Correlator” examines the effects of sunlight and vitamin D has on age, body toxicity, and disease. Most interestingly, natural sunlight vitamin D does not show signs of toxicity at any level. However artificial vitamin D in the form of dietary supplements does shows sign of toxicity at high dosages.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Responding to research indicating that vitamin D may slow the progression of breast, colon and other common cancers, some doctors have begun adding Vitamin D supplements to their list of cancer therapies. This article by the Health Freedom Alliance takes a look at the new Vitamin D trend emerging in modern medicine.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...This article by Dr. Mercola – the Internet’s largest alternative health educator -shares important new science that shows how vitamin D deficiency is link to many diseases including heart diseaser, cancer, diabetes, depression, autoimmune disease and many others. Let how you can get more sunlight in your body, increasing vitamin D levels and keeping you healthy.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The amounts of vitamin D generated by the sun are much higher than we can get from foods – reaching 20,000 International Units (IU) in about 20 minutes. With recent research affirming the ability of higher levels of vitamin D to prevent cancer and improve bone health, many experts have been calling for the US government to raise the recommended daily allowance (RDA) dramatically, from 400 IU to 1,000 IU or even 2,000 IU. Read the rest of this entry »
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Research published by the British Medical Journal confirms that low vitamin D levels obtained in the past are a risk factor for developing colon cancer in the future. Even more significant is that vitamin A, even in relatively low amounts, can reduce vitamin D’s reduced rates of colon cancer. This is the largest study to date showing that vitamin A blocks the benefits of vitamin D.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Despite the Cancer Society’s claims that skin cancer is caused by sun exposure, increasing evidence shows that sun exposure reduces the risk of all forms of cancer and that skin cancer is more likely caused by a diet lacking omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. Further more, no evidence exists that show that sunblock or sunscreen lotions prevent skin cancer.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Does sunscreen really prevent cancer? Get the facts in this 46 minute lecture by Dr. Edward Gorham of the University of California Sand Diego.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Life Extension is a global authority on nutrition, health and wellness as well as a provider of scientific information on anti-aging supplements and therapies. In this Life Extension magazine article, LE Magazine presents a plethora of scientific evidence on the effectiveness of Vitamin D in the body. Read the newest research that proves the effectiveness of Vitamin D.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland is involved in research showing how Vitamin D is necessary for the brain development and mental health. “In addition to its role in maintaining bone health, vitamin D is involved in differentiation of tissues during development and in proper functioning of the immune system. In fact, over 900 different genes are now known to be able to bind the vitamin D receptor, through which vitamin D mediates its effects. Vitamin D’s ability to affect proteins in the brain known to be directly involved in learning and memory, motor control, and possibly even maternal and social behavior.”
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...It is very clear that modern science has proven that sunlight exposure is necessary for human health. However how much sunlight exposure may not be. M. Nathaneil Mead discusses how much sunlight exposure people should get in Part 6 of his article the Beneftis of Sunlight: A Bright Spot for Human Health.
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