- 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 benefits. 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.
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- Vitamin D is produced by your skin in response to exposure
to ultraviolet radiation from natural sunlight.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- A person would have to drink ten tall glasses of vitamin
D fortified milk each day just to get minimum levels of vitamin D into
their diet.
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- 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.
- 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 deficiency.
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- 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.
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- 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 system.
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- 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 deficiency in the body.
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- 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.
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- If it hurts to press firmly on your sternum, you may
be suffering from chronic vitamin D deficiency right now.
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- Vitamin D is "activated" in your body by your
kidneys and liver before it can be used.
- Having kidney disease or liver damage can greatly impair
your body's ability to activate circulating vitamin D.
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- 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.
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- Even though vitamin D is one of the most powerful healing
chemicals in your body, your body makes it absolutely free. No prescription
required.
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- 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
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- without burning. Other powerful antioxidants with this
ability include the superfruits like Acai, Pomegranates (POM Wonderful
juice), blueberries, etc.
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- Diseases and conditions cause by vitamin D deficiency:
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- Osteoporosis is commonly caused by a lack of vitamin
D, which greatly impairs calcium absorption.
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- Sufficient vitamin D prevents prostate cancer, breast
cancer, ovarian cancer, depression, colon cancer and schizophrenia.
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- "Rickets" is the name of a bone-wasting disease
caused by vitamin D deficiency.
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- Vitamin D deficiency may exacerbate type 2 diabetes and
impair insulin production in the pancreas.
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- Obesity impairs vitamin D utilization in the body, meaning
obese people need twice as much vitamin D.
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- Vitamin D is used around the world to treat Psoriasis.
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- Vitamin D deficiency causes schizophrenia.
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- Seasonal Affective Disorder is caused by a melatonin
imbalance initiated by lack of exposure to sunlight.
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- Chronic vitamin D deficiency is often misdiagnosed as
fibromyalgia because its symptoms are so similar: muscle weakness, aches
and pains.
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- 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.
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- Infants who receive vitamin D supplementation (2000 units
daily) have an 80% reduced risk of developing type 1 diabetes over the
next twenty years.
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- Shocking Vitamin D deficiency statistics:
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- 32% of doctors and med school students are vitamin D
deficient.
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- 40% of the U.S. population is vitamin D deficient.
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- 42% of African American women of childbearing age are
deficient in vitamin D.
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- 48% of young girls (9-11 years old) are vitamin D deficient.
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- Up to 60% of all hospital patients are vitamin D deficient.
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- 76% of pregnant mothers are severely vitamin D deficient,
causing widespread vitamin D deficiencies 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 deficient.
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- Up to 80% of nursing home patients are vitamin D deficient.
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- What you can do
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- 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 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.
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- 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.
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- And you can get it free of charge. That's why nobody's
promoting it, of course.
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