Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, there seems to be a systemic anti-cancer effect provided by sunlight exposure and vitamin D. If you haven't already, be sure to read the free report available for downloading at http://www.truthpublishing.com. It's an interview with Dr. Michael Holick on this very topic. It's a fascinating read. That interview was conducted before this new study was published, but I'm sure this study is bringing a smile to Dr. Michael Holick's face, and hopefully increasing awareness of the importance of sunlight exposure across the U.S. population -- especially in the medical community. |
| Even if you're just looking at vitamin D, there are so many healing benefits of vitamin D that it's worth promoting sunlight exposure for that reason alone. Vitamin D regulates the growth of cancer cells. It impairs the proliferation of cancer tumors in the body, and at the same time it is extremely important for absorption of calcium in the small intestine.
(This, by the way, helps explain why so many senior citizens get osteoporosis today even though they think they're taking plenty of calcium supplements. The reason is they don't have enough vitamin D to actually absorb the calcium. |
| You must cover up your skin, wear sunscreen and avoid any sunlight exposure at all if you want to be healthy, they've said. This is the line of propaganda pushed by the sunscreen industry, and of course the dermatology industry, which has been largely funded by the sunscreen manufacturers. They've been telling people sunlight causes cancer, and you must avoid the sun at all costs.
That’s all hogwash. As I've been saying on this site for quite some time, the human body was designed to live in harmony with sunlight. |
| Michael Holick's face, and hopefully increasing awareness of the importance of sunlight exposure across the U.S. population -- especially in the medical community. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 IU) per day for women at deficiency risk because of inadequate sunlight exposure, such as older, frail, chronically ill, housebound, institutionalized, or those in northern latitudes. Doses as high as 50 pg (2000 IU) are safe.
"To prevent rickets and vitamin D deficiency in healthy infants and children and acknowledging that adequate sunlight exposure is difficult to determine, we reaffirm the adequate intake of 200 IU per day of vitamin D by the National Academy of Sciences and recommend a supplement of 200 IU per day for the following: 1. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Plus, as you age, you hang out inside more or become housebound and experience less sunlight exposure.
Bone remodeling consists of two stages: resorption, when cells called osteoclasts dissolve old bone, creating small cavities; and bone formation, or remodeling, when cells called osteoblasts build new bone by filling those cavities with calcium. Usually, bone resorption and bone formation occur around the same time and are balanced. When they're not balanced, you lose bone mass. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 The casual sunlight exposure of today's urban lifestyle isn't enough to produce adequate amounts of vitamin D, no matter what your latitude. That's why the Vitamin D Cure is essential!
The Diet-Vitamin D Connection
I he vitamin D deficiency picture is a bit more complicated than it seems on the surface. You can correct your vitamin D levels and help yourself immensely with that one easy upgrade. But you can really do worlds of good for your health by taking into account the other missing ingredients in your diet—and fixing those, too. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Cervical cancer is prevented in a hundred other ways, including adequate sunlight exposure and vitamin D consumption, supplementation with probiotics, adequate intake of selenium and zinc, increased consumption of trace minerals and iodine, regular physical exercise and many other safe, natural, non-patented strategies.
America is being hoodwinked over the HPV vaccine. To call this anything resembling genuine public health policy is an absolute joke. It's really just a grand moneymaking scheme that exploits the bodies of young girls, marketed to look like compassionate health care. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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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.
Even though vitamin D is one of the most powerful healing chemicals in your body, your body makes it absolutely free. No prescription required.
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. |
Bill Sardi
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 All Races and Ethnic Groups
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The prostate cancer belt in the world is in northern climates where vitamin D production from sunlight exposure is low, especially during winter months. [Cancer 70:2861-69, 1992]
While it has been said that physical exercise reduces prostate cancer risk, the fact that physical activity often increases hours spent outdoors in the sun may suggest it is vitamin D rather than physical exercise itself that reduces risk for this type of cancer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 D deficiency, yet neither the medical establishment nor the cancer industry currently expresses any interest in urging women to get more vitamin D through sunlight exposure or nutritional supplementation. Recent research has shown that vitamin D halts 77 percent of all cancers from becoming full-blown tumors, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer and leukemia. The vast majority of women in the United States remain chronically vitamin D deficient, putting their bodies in a state of accelerated tumor growth. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The ultra-wealthy ACS non-profit, with all its ties to pharmaceutical companies and mammography machine manufacturers, still refuses to openly urge women to prevent breast cancer by getting more vitamin D through nutritional supplements or sensible sunlight exposure. In fact, the organization continues to warn people away from sunlight, actually contributing to the mass vitamin D deficiency that's now rampant in western nations (including the U.S., Canada and the U.K.).
Vitamin D deficiency greatly reduces the body's ability to halt the growth of cancer tumors. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Recent research shows that vitamin D supplements (or sunlight exposure, which produces vitamin D), slash cancer risk by an astonishing 77% in women (and that includes ALL cancers).
There will never be a chemical cure for cancer, because cancer is not a disease based on germs, an infection, parasite or virus. There is no chemical that can cure cancer, but there are many natural remedies and prevention strategies that very effectively eliminate cancer. Scientists aren't looking for those, however. They're steeped in the world of synthetic chemical medicine.
Where has the real science gone? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Why does the entire cancer industry so strongly dissuade people from using sunlight exposure to dramatically reduce their cancer risk? (Hint: Follow the money to the sunscreen industry...)
#4: Why have all the really good cancer supplements, clinics and naturopaths been banned, arrested or run out of the country? (Look up the FDA's oppression of Lane Labs over MGN-3 for a fascinating review of this...)
#5: The U.S. has poured billions of dollars into the cancer industry over the last three decades. Cancer cures were promised in the 1970's. |
| This research on vitamin D is a huge threat to the cancer industry profit mongers because it reveals a way to prevent cancer for free -- by seeking natural sunlight exposure and letting your skin manufacture your own powerful anti-cancer medicine (vitamin D). The idea that the cancer industry could lose 80% of its patients due to widespread education about vitamin D and sunlight scares the living daylights out of the cancer industry. |
| It means that if you take high-quality calcium supplements and get lots of natural sunlight exposure or take premium vitamin D supplements (such as those made from fish oil), you could easily have a greater reduction than the 77 percent reduction recorded in this study.
American Cancer Society opposes vitamin D
This research on vitamin D is such good news that the American Cancer Society, of course, had to say something against it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Planned sunlight exposure for enhanced creation of vitamin D which prevents gum disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, depression, heart disease, obesity and all kinds of cancers including prostate cancer.
In future articles, we'll examine these areas in more detail, discussing the best nutritional strategies for physical performance, fertility, brain function, stress adaptation, disease prevention, longevity and much more. We'll also look at the most common sources of the chemical contaminants and food additives that are causing the most damage to men's health right now. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Beta-carotene and other carotenoids
Scavenges singlet oxygen molecules (often resulting from sunlight exposure); prevents the oxidation of fats.
Minerals
Components of various antioxidant enzymes (e.g., superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase) that mop up oxygen fragments.
Coenzyme
Qio
Scavenges free radicals, especially in the blood; may recycle vitamin E.
Alpha lipoic acid
Water and fat soluble substance that neutralizes free radicals all over the body; recycles vitamins C and E.
Oxygen is a paradox. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| To prevent rickets and vitamin D deficiency in healthy infants and children and acknowledging that adequate sunlight exposure is difficult to determine, we reaffirm the adequate intake of 200 IU per day of vitamin D by the National Academy of Sciences and recommend a supplement of 200 IU per day for the following: 1. All breastfed infants unless they are weaned to at least 500 mL per day of vitamin D-fortified formula or milk. 2. All non breastfed infants who are ingesting less than 500 mL per day of vitamin D-fortified formula or milk. 3. |
| AMD among people with high levels of sunlight exposure. (This might be due to the difficulty in assessing the amount, type, and timing of sun exposure.) Some studies indicate high risk for AMD among people with cardiovascular disease [100, 101] or its risk factors [102]. Aspects of diet that may explain these risk factors or be independently related are discussed later.
Having a first-degree relative with AMD increases one's risk for the disease as well. |
| Children and adolescents who do not get regular sunlight exposure, do not ingest at least 500 mL per day of vitamin D-fortified milk, or do not take a daily multivitamin supplement containing at least 200 IU of vitamin D."
No health professional group has made recommendations specific to adults. Speculation about the EAR has, however, been published. Using the data presented in Figure 2, it would appear that 12.5 pg (500 IU) could prevent the wintertime drop in 25(OH)D and maintain population levels of 25(OH)D close to 75-80nmol/liter [14]. |
| Levels of oral vitamin D necessary for optimal calcium utilization would undoubtedly be influenced by inputs of vitamin D through both subcutaneous synthesis from sunlight exposure and dietary calcium levels. It is a difficult question to answer.
There have been three RCTs of vitamin D in children with bone outcomes (see Table 5). The results are quite varied among the studies. As with calcium absorption, vitamin D and calcium intakes would be interdependent. |
| Sunlight exposure and risk of lens opacities in a population-based study: the Salisbury Eye Evaluation project. JAMA 280, 714-718.
28. Taylor, H. R., West, S. K., Rosenthal, F. S., et al. (1988). Effect of ultraviolet radiation on cataract formation. N. Engl. J. Med. 319, 1429-1433.
29. McCarty, C. A., and Taylor, H. R. (2002). A review of the epidemiologic evidence linking ultraviolet radiation and cataracts. Dev. Ophthalmol. 35, 21-31.
30. McCarty, C. A. (2002). Cataract in the 21st century: lessons from previous epidemiological research. Clin. Exp. Optom. 85, 91-96.
31. Rowe, N. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Should it not raise doubts among physicians and patients alike when even among palefaces, the most common sites for melanoma (legs in women, torso in men) get significantly less sunlight exposure than other parts of the body? To make a point, based on this and other evidence, your best chance of avoiding melanoma is to move to areas of higher UV-concentration, such as mountainous regions or the equatorial tropics and become a nudist! Since sunlight boosts the immune system, you may find that such a move would also help with many other health issues from which you may be suffering. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 As we consider common mechanisms of action, we might start with sunlight exposure, because this somehow seems linked to the autoimmune diseases. sunlight exposure, which decreases with increasing latitude, could be important—but clearly there are other factors. The consumption of animal-based foods, especially cow's milk, also increases with distance from the equator. In fact, in one of the more extensive studies, cow's milk was found to be as good of a predictor of MS as latitude (i.e., sunshine).51 In Dr. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 The results were as clear as the sky on a cloudless day—there was a near-constant correlation between skin color and sunlight exposure in populations that had remained in the same area for 500 years or more. They even produced an equation to express the relationship between a given population's skin color and its annual exposure to ultraviolet rays. (If you're feeling adventurous, the equation is W= 70 -AUV/10. W represents relative whiteness and
AUVrepresents annual ultraviolet exposure. |
Bill Sardi
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| Lancet 337: 701-02, 1991]
If undergoing cancer treatment, cumulative sunlight exposure in the months preceding treatment is a predictor of subsequent survival. [International Journal Cancer, May 2, 2006 online] Place sunshine or vitamin D pills on your list of preventive or therapeutic measures.
A daily intake of 2,600 units of vitamin D (65 meg) is recommended to attain blood concentrations that will optimally protect against disease. [Journal Nutrition 136: 1123-5, 2006] There is no way the diet can provide this much vitamin D. |
| Indoor work, particularly a basement workplace, would deprive workers of sunlight exposure. Sunlight produces vitamin D in humans. A deficiency of vitamin D is linked with breast cancer. Was the increase in male breast cancer caused by magnetic fields or by lack of vitamin D? These are the types of questions that make it difficult to ascertain if there is a link between EMF exposure and cancer.
To make matters worse, a cell biologist doing work on EMFs for the Department of Energy, faked data linking cancer to electromagnetic fields in order to gain $3. |
| The countries are divided by Northern climate (less vitamin D from sunlight exposure) and equatorial countries (more sunlight and higher
Age-standardized mortality rate (per 100 000 person years) from lung cancer in males in 23 countries, 1971-1995
Country
1971-1995
Northern Nations (lower vitamin D levels)
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Hungary
180.91
Poland
158.34
Belgium
144.87
Netherlands
129.4
Canada
107.71
USA
115.23
Denmark
103.74
England and Wales
101.21
Finland
90.2
Norway
67.36
Sweden
48.21
Equatorial Nations (higher vitamin D levels)
Taiwan
58.44
Portugal
59.48
Japan
59. |
| Archives Internal Medicine 165: 2538, 2005]
Blacks experience much higher rates of prostate cancer than do Caucasians and require 5 times as much sunlight exposure to produce the same amount of vitamin D. About 234 Black males per 100,000 develop prostate cancer compared to 144 Caucasian males. Differences in rates of prostate cancer between Blacks and Caucasians are not explained by dietary differences. |
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