By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 07 May 2019 17:05:13 +0000

An excellent article on vitamin D. Please remember, however, that sunlight exposure is the most natural way to obtain maximal vitamin D levels. And also be aware that whereas too much vitamin D supplementation can be toxic, sun exposure can never cause vitamin D toxicity, even though it can produce vast amounts of the hormone. The sun exposure also produces many other essential photoproducts such and serotonin, endorphins, nitric oxide and brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF). Here are some facts about the vital necessity of sun exposure to human health:
•Seventy-five percent of melanoma occurs on body areas that are seldom or never exposed to sun.
•Women who sunbathe regularly have half the risk of death during a 20-year period compared to those who stay indoors.
•Sun deprivation leads to approximately the same increase in all-cause death as cigarette smoking.
•Multiple sclerosis (MS) is highest in areas of little sunlight, and virtually disappears in areas of year-round direct sunlight.
•A Spanish study shows that women who seek the sun have one-eleventh the hip-fracture risk as sun avoiders.
•Men who work outdoors have half the risk of melanoma as those who work indoors.
•An Iranian study showed that women who avoid sun have 10-times the risk of breast cancer.
•Regular, non-burning sun exposure can reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease by 98%.
•Sun exposure increases the production of BDNF, essential to nerve function.
•Sun exposure can produce as much as 20,000 IU of vitamin D in 20 minutes of full-body sun exposure.
•For each death caused by diseases associated with sun exposure, there are 328 deaths caused by diseases associated with sun deprivation.
More information: Sunlightinstitute.org, and read Dr. Marc Sorenson’s book, Embrace the Sun.

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