Wednesday 4 July 2012

Fifteen facts you very certainly seldom knew about vitamin D & sunlight exposure.

Fifteen facts you very certainly seldom knew about vitamin D & sunlight exposure.
       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 is probably because it is free: your body makes it when sunlight touches your skin. Drug companies cannot sell you sunlight, so there is no promotion of its health benefits. Truth is, most people don't know the actual 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 automobile or home.
 3- It is  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 must drink0 tall glasses of vitamin D fortified milk each day to get maximum levels of vitamin D in to 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 United Kingdom and most U.S. states are far from the equator.
6-  People with dark skin pigmentation may need twenty - 30 times as much exposure to sunlight as fair-skinned people to generate the same amount of vitamin D. That is why prostate cancer is epidemic among black men -- it is a simple, but widespread, sunlight deficiency.
  7-Sufficient levels of vitamin D are crucial for calcium absorption in your intestines. Without sufficient vitamin D, your body cannot absorb calcium, rendering calcium supplements useless.
 8- Chronic vitamin D deficiency cannot be reversed overnight: it takes months of vitamin D supplementation and sunlight exposure to rebuild the body's bones and nervous method.
9-  Even weak sunscreens (SPF=8) block your body's ability to generate vitamin D by 95%. This is how sunscreen products actually cause illness -- by making a critical vitamin deficiency in the body.
10-  It is impossible to generate 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 firmly on your sternum, you may be suffering from chronic vitamin D deficiency right now.
12-  Vitamin D is "activated" in your body by your kidneys and liver before it can be used.
13-  Having kidney illness or liver damage can greatly weaken your body's ability to activate circulating vitamin D.
14-  The sunscreen industry doesn't require you to know that your body actually needs sunlight exposure because that realization would mean lower sales of sunscreen products.
  15-Although vitamin D is of the most powerful healing chemicals in your body, your body makes it absolutely free. No prescription necessary.

On the issue of sunlight exposure, incidentally, it turns out that tremendous antioxidants greatly boost your body's ability to handle sunlight without burning. Astaxanthin is of the most powerful "internal sunscreens" and can let you stay under the sun two times as long without burning. Other powerful antioxidants with this ability include the super fruits like Acai, Pomegranates (POM Brilliant juice), blueberries, etc.

Diseases and conditions cause by vitamin D deficiency:

1-Osteoporosis is often caused by a lack of vitamin D, which greatly impairs calcium absorption.
 2- Sufficient vitamin D prevents prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, depression, colon cancer & schizophrenia.
  3-"Rickets" is the name of a bone-wasting disease caused by vitamin D deficiency.
 4- Vitamin D deficiency may exacerbate type two diabetes & weaken insulin production in the pancreas.
  5-Obesity impairs vitamin D utilization in the body, meaning fat people require two times as much vitamin D.
 6- Vitamin D is used around the globe to treat Psoriasis.
  7-Vitamin D deficiency causes schizophrenia.
8-  Seasonal Affective Disorder is caused by a melatonin imbalance initiated by lack of exposure to sunlight.
9-  Chronic vitamin D deficiency is often misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia because its signs are so similar: muscle weakness, aches & pains.
10-  Your risk of developing serious diseases like diabetes & cancer is reduced 50% - 80% through simple, sensible exposure to natural sunlight 2-3 times each week.
 11- Kids who get vitamin D supplementation (2000 units every day) have an 80% reduced risk of developing type one diabetes over the next0 years.

SHOCKING VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY

1-32% of doctors & med school students are vitamin D deficient.
 2-40% of the U.S. population is vitamin D deficient.
3-  42% of African American females of childbearing age are deficient in vitamin D.
4-  48% of young girls (9-11 years elderly) are vitamin D deficient.
5-  Up to 60% of all hospital patients are vitamin D deficient.
6-  76% of pregnant mothers are severely vitamin D deficient, causing widespread vitamin D deficiencies in    their unborn babies, which predisposes them to type one diabetes, arthritis, multiple sclerosis & 7-schizophrenia later in life. 81% of the babies born to these mothers were deficient.
  Up to 80% of nursing home patients are vitamin D deficient.


WHAT YOU CAN DO?

Sensible exposure to natural sunlight is the simplest, simplest & yet 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 find this book at most local bookstores or through BN.com, Amazon.com, etc. Note: This is not a paid endorsement or an affiliate link. I recommend it because of its great importance in stopping chronic illness & enhancing health without drugs or surgical procedure. This may be the single most important book on health you ever read. If more people understood this information, they could drastically reduce the rates of chronic illness in this country & around the globe. Sunlight exposure is truly 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, & no high-tech procedure that comes even close to the astonishing healing power of natural sunlight.


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