Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You don't see them shouting to the press that sunshine is a cure for breast cancer, prostate cancer, osteoporosis, depression, schizophrenia and can even help reduce obesity. All of those things are true, by the way. If sunshine were a prescription drug, it would be heralded as the most miraculous, amazing breakthrough drug ever invented by mankind. But sunshine cannot be bottled and sold to people. No one owns the patent on sunshine. So, instead, you hear about miracle cures from high-priced prescription drugs like Herceptin. Big Pharma hype masters are claiming that a 0. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Sources of Vitamin D
The natural source of vitamin D is from sunshine. As you may recall, just a few minutes of sun on the face and arms a few times a week will provide all the vitamin D that you need, except in high latitudes during winter. It is best to get in the sun even in the winter, although reserves of stored vitamin D normally last through the winter even without sufficient sun to make more.
Sunshine is the healthiest source of vitamin D.
There is no RDA for vitamin D. Instead, there is a daily Adequate Intake (AI). The AI for everyone under 50 years of age is 200 IU (5 meg). |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Fish oil and sunshine are good sources of natural vitamin D, which benefits the development of good teeth and bones. Herbal sources of vitamin D are alfalfa and nettles.
Vitamin D3
Adequate intake (AI):
Pregnant or nursing: 200 IU per day Tolerable upper intake level (UL): Pregnant or nursing: 2,000 IU per day Environmental source: sunshine Food sources: fish Herbal sources: alfalfa, nettles
Vitamin E. Vitamin E declines during pregnancy, creating deficiencies, and fetal vitamin E levels are usually low. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| All of those things are true, by the way. If sunshine were a prescription drug, it would be heralded as the most miraculous, amazing breakthrough drug ever invented by mankind. But sunshine cannot be bottled and sold to people. No one owns the patent on sunshine. So, instead, you hear about miracle cures from high-priced prescription drugs like Herceptin. Big Pharma hype masters are claiming that a 0.6% percent reduction in absolute risk is the best result in the universe. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Or in the 70 m sunshine. (Better yet—spend time with an ani- 1/1 mal in the sunshine!) Meditation is probably the most reliable and proven way to bring down stress hormones, but if that's not your cup of tea try some simple breathing exercises. (There's a reason they tell you to take a deep breath when you're boiling mad—deep breathing and stress are incompatable). If you want a really easy, structured way to reduce stress, try the Relaxation Response (see page 291).
Whatever you choose, do something.
Ultimately the health of your brain depends on it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The discrediting of natural sunlight
This explains the mass discrediting of the healing power of sunshine. sunshine is perhaps the single most potent healing element you can absorb through your skin, and there are a number of chronic diseases that it not only prevents but can actually help reverse, including various cancers, diabetes, osteoporosis, heart disease, and many others. Yet it has been widely discredited by modern medicine because it's freely available. It requires no medical degree to get sunshine. |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 Our bathing suits have become reduced to the very minimum as we are trying to immerse our bodies in the precious sunshine. However, not many people are aware of the sunlights liquefied form, chlorophyll.
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Chlorophyll is as important as sunlight! No life is possible without sunshine and no life is possible without chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is liquefied sun energy. Consuming as much chlorophyll as possible is exactly like bathing our inner organs in sunshine. The molecule of chlorophyll is remarkably similar to the molecule of heme, human blood. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 When clover has a bad year—not enough rain or sunshine, or too much rain or sunshine—it protects itself by limiting the size of the next generation of predators. It increases production of formononetin and prevents the birth of baby grazers by sterilizing their would-be parents.
The next time you're looking for some convenient birth control, you don't have to snack on a field of clover, of course. But if you take many forms of the famous "Pill," you're not doing something all that different. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If sunshine were a prescription drug, it would be heralded as the most miraculous, amazing breakthrough drug ever invented by mankind. But sunshine cannot be bottled and sold to people. No one owns the patent on sunshine. So, instead, you hear about miracle cures from high-priced prescription drugs like Herceptin. Big Pharma hype masters are claiming that a 0.6% percent reduction in absolute risk is the best result in the universe. |
Mark Lynas
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 Solar panels are expensive too, and the vast areas devoted to them would be unusable for anything else; although I can't think of any obvious drawbacks to putting solar panels on roofs, which are largely wasted space anyway
Some people have suggested that covering large areas of the world's deserts with solar photovoltaic panels would be a good way to harvest the brightest sunshine without sacrificing much-needed farmland. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Alternatives to supplemental calcium include more calcium in the diet, more sunshine, keeping protein intake to the RDAs, keeping sodium levels below the upper intake levels, and regular weight-bearing exercise.
Calcium Toxicity
Blood levels of calcium that are abnormally high (hypercalcemia) are rare. Hypercalcemia has not been reported to result from food, only from certain supplement combinations. Hypercalcemia has been documented only with high levels of supplementation over long periods of time, usually combined with antacids and milk. |
| CHAPTER 4
Vitamin D
The sunshine Vitamin
The main function of Vitamin D is regulating calcium and phosphorus to make bones strong. Vitamin D is an unusual vitamin. Vitamin D is necessary in the diet only for people who get too little sun to make their own vitamin D. For the billions of people who do get enough sun, it is not a vitamin because it is not needed in the diet. Vitamin D is also very hard to find in a natural diet as it occurs in only a few foods. Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin. |
| The natural source of vitamin D is:
(a) sunshine.
(b) Spinach.
(c) Apples.
(d) Vitamin D supplements.
4. Vitamin D is metabolized and activated in:
(a) The liver.
(b) The kidneys.
(c) The skin.
(d) All of the above.
5. Blood calcium can come from:
(a) The bones.
(b) The intestines.
(c) The kidneys.
(d) All of the above.
6. The deficiency disease for vitamin D is:
(a) Pellagra.
(b) Rickets.
(c) Scurvy.
(d) Night blindness.
7. The tolerable upper intake level (UL) for vitamin D is:
(a) 200 IU.
(b) 400 IU.
(c) 1000 IU.
(d) 2000 IU.
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Bill Sardi
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 Dark-skinned people have low levels of vitamin D due to melanin in their skin, and that's why they require far more sunshine to produce the same amount of vitamin D as do Caucasians.
There is yet another intriguing link to lung cancer. Smokers comprise most cases, and smoking depletes the body of vitamin C and carotenoids such as beta carotene, lycopene and lutein.
Few smokers ever learn the above facts, which certainly hint at the possibility of prevention or even a cure. |
| Being overweight (postmenopausal women)
• Alcohol consumption (even moderate consumption is troublesome)
• Red meat consumption
• Lack of whole grains in the diet
• Diets containing corn oil (omega-6 oils) rather than fish oil or flax oil (omega-3 oils)
• Overconsumption of fatty foods
• Smoking tobacco
• Lack of sunshine (vitamin D)
• Environmental carcinogens
Source: J Womens Health 12: 183-92, 2003; Nutrition & Cancer 44:23-34, 2002; Cancer Causes Control 13: 883-93, 2002
Weight and cancer
Postmenopausal women who carry excess weight (who weigh more than 175 pounds) are at a 2. |
| Vitamin D
The geographical breast cancer belt in the world is in areas where there is less sunshine. Northern latitudes have the highest breast cancer rates. For over a decade it has been known that the worldwide incidence of breast cancer is higher in geographical areas of less sunlight. [International Journal Epidemiology 19:820-4, 1990] Women living in sunnier areas of the United States experience a relative 35-75% drop in their risk for breast cancer. [Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers Prevention 8: 399-406, 1999] Annual age-adjusted mortality rates for breast cancer varied over a 1. |
| 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. Sun-starved females are at great risk for breast cancer, particularly women living in northern latitudes where wintertime sun exposure produces little vitamin D because of a decline in UV radiation in solar light. |
| Nutrition & Cancer 51:32-6, 2005]
The second study, from Harvard Medical School, announced that vitamin D obtained from sunshine, diet and supplements almost tripled the 5-year survival of patients with lung cancer. The five-year survival rate was 72 percent in the group with the highest vitamin D intake compared to 29 percent with the lowest. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Everyone should get a half hour of sunshine a day.
"People say the cancer rates are increasing, that's all nonsense." To illustrate the point, he showed several slides of declining cancer deaths.2 Natural and synthetic substances have the same cancer "hit rates." A number of natural chemicals in coffee and volatile chemicals in tomatoes are carcinogens. "The idea that science and technology are doing us in and if only we'd go back to nature we'd be fine — people forget that cars are safer than horses," Dr. Ames said. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 The plant prefers moist soil, a humid climate, and plenty of sunshine.
SYRIAN RUE
Botanical Name
Peganum barmala
Family
Nitariaceae (Nitaria Family) Etymology
The genus name, Peganum, is the classical Greek name for a species of rue, which Syrian rue was thought to resemble, although the two are not related. The species name, barmala, derives from that of the Lebanese town Hermel. |
Marshall Editions
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 This is an especially strong remedy to consider where cold sores have developed after exposure to sunshine, or as a consequence of having a heavy head cold. Areas especially vulnerable to develop cold sores include the mouth and lips. There may be an associated tendency for the lips to be dry, sensitive, and to crack very easily.
Sepia: For cold sores that affect the lips and corners of the mouth, Sepia is an especially appropriate remedy. The lower lip may become swollen as well as cracked and dry. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| The plant grows best in moist soil with plenty of sunshine.
WILD YAM
Botanical Name
Dioscorea polystachya (syn. D. batatas), D. bulbifera, D. japonica, D. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Healthy sources: sunshine. Supplementation with vitamin D3 may be needed. Food sources: fortified milk, salmon, sardines, and mackerel. Forms in the body: cholecalciferol, calcidiol, and calcitriol.
Summary for Vitamin E
Main functions: antioxidant protection of cell membranes and LDL. RDA as RRR-alpha-tocopherol: adolescents and adults, 22.5 IU (15 mg); children, 6IUto 16 IU (4-11 mg).
Vitamin E is nontoxic at less than 66 times the RDA. Tolerable upper intake level of 1000 IU daily prevents excess bleeding. Deficiency: one-third of adults get too little to prevent cardiovascular disease. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Vitamin D
Studies show that low levels of the "sunshine vitamin" correlate with increased symptoms of arthritis. People with joint and muscle pain often get some relief with vitamin D supplementation. This nutrient is essential, too, in the prevention of osteoporosis.
Dose: Take 1,000 international units (IU) a day, or more if blood tests show a serious deficiency.
Glucosamine/Chondroitin
Both of these substances are glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), building materials for making cartilage. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 West Palm Beach, FL: sunshine Sentinel Press, 2001.
-. "Aspartame (NutraSweet) Addiction." Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients 198 (2000):
52-57. http://nancymarkle.com/tldaddic.txt. -. Aspartame (NutraSweet): Is It Safe? Philadelphia: Charles Press, 1990.
-. "Section 13—Aspartame Disease." Useful Insights for Diagnosis, Treatment, Public Health:
An Updated Anthology of Original Research. West Palm Beach, FL: Palm Beach Institute for Medical Research, 2002.
Ross, Julia. |
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| It is often described as being like sunshine in a bottle, and has an uplifting, cheerful effect. Do not apply it directly to the skin. Neroli oil has a light, sweet floral fragrance. It has a balancing tonic effect on the nervous system and can be relaxing and uplifting. It is great for treating anxiety, nervous tension, and depression. Jasmine's heady aroma is considered emotionally warming and is very useful for relieving sexual anxiety and fear. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| West Palm Beach (FL): sunshine Sentinel Press, 2001.
The FDA and the USDA are culpable drug agents when you consider they approved the additives for our processed food products. Red Dye #2 and transfatty acids are just two examples of lobbying efforts gone astray. The food police were left with egg on their faces.
Any processed food has been modified to the extent it has increased shelf life because of added preservatives (chemicals). |
| The least we taxpayers should demand is whatever research done at a public institution, even partially supported by our tax dollars, should be conducted "in the sunshine" —a matter of public record.
Here's an interesting bit of "diabetic" history. Early in the 1900s, a group of scientists/researchers noted, while performing surgery on a diabetic dog, that tying off certain ducts extending from the pancreas led to a regeneration of beta cells and insulin production. This isolated report was ignored. (Additional investigation might have led to a cure. |
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