Dr. Steve Blake
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 However, ultraviolet light and other forms of irradiation including visible light destroy riboflavin, as shown in Figure 1-8.
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Figure 1-8 Riboflavin is destroyed by light and UV light.
Vitamin B3—Niacin, Feel the Burn
The disease pellagra has been known since the introduction of corn to Europe in the 1700s. The connection between pellagra and niacin was confirmed in 1937 by an American scientist who was searching for the cause of pellagra. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 In fact, doctors have traditionally treated psoriasis patients with ultraviolet light therapy and topical steroids.
In the past two decades, researchers have seen that activated vitamin D and vitamin D analogs applied as ointments can reduce or eliminate psoriasis—and enhance the effectiveness of ultraviolet light therapy. Activated vitamin D combined with a vitamin A compound is even more effective.
For centuries people have sunbathed in the Dead Sea as a remedy for skin diseases. The high magnesium content of Dead Sea water is the healing factor. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 He also found that exposing rabbits to ultraviolet light decreased their cholesterol levels. Altschul wanted to try ultraviolet light treatment on people, but could not find any doctor in Saskatoon willing to work with him until Dr Hoffer agreed to provide subjects in one of the provincial mental hospitals. Since the treatment was safe and patients could not be harmed by it, he considered that it would be good for these mental patients to mix with healthy young people who would be conducting the research.
At that time, Hoffer himself had been suffering from bleeding gums. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Lycopene may play a role in preventing oxidative damage in skin produced by exposure to ultraviolet light. The volar forearm of 16 healthy Caucasian women was exposed to 3x their minimal erythema dose (determined previously) of ultraviolet light. This produced a 31% to 46% reduction in skin concentrations of lycopene. This same dose of light did not appreciably affect the concentration of skin beta-carotene, another carotenoid. Three days after the ultraviolet exposure a 6-mm skin biopsy was obtained and levels of lycopene and beta-carotene determined (Ribaya-Mercado et al, 1995). |
Andreas Moritz
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 Niels Finsen, who won a Nobel Prize in 1903 for his treatment of TB using ultraviolet light. Rollier found that sunbathing early in the morning, in conjunction with a nutritious diet, produced the best effects.
The miraculous complete cures of tuberculosis and other diseases facilitated by these doctors made headlines at the time. What surprised the medical community most was the fact that the sun's healing rays remained ineffective if the patients wore sunglasses. [Sunglasses block out important rays of the light spectrum which the body requires for essential biological functions. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 SKIN DISORDERS: Figs contain a substance called Psoralens that, when combined with exposure to ultraviolet light, has shown success in treating several skin diseases and certain forms of lymphoma in some studies.
DIGESTION: Figs are naturally high in fiber and contain digestive enzymes that promote regularity and can aid in digestion.
WEIGHT MANAGEMENT: Fiber may play a role in making people feel full faster and slowing absorption of calories. |
Bill Sardi
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 Exposure to ultraviolet light, heat or oxygen may accelerate isomerization to cis resveratrol which is less biologically active. [Journal Agriculture Food Chemistry 44: 1253-57, 1996; Electrophoresis 22: 2574-79, 2001; J Agriculture Food Chemistry 51:1653-7, 2003] To make raw extracted resveratrol into a reliable and effective dietary supplement, it would need to be adequately preserved following extraction and then placed in an opaque, airtight capsule without significant exposure to light or oxygen during processing. |
Andreas Moritz
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| At 290nm (one nanometer or nm equals one billionth of a meter) about 50 percent of the ultraviolet light penetrates a little deeper than to the superficial layers of the skin, whereas at 400nm, 50 percent reaches the deeper layers. The deeper-reaching rays can even penetrate the brain. The human body was designed to absorb UV light for very good reasons; otherwise we would have been born with a natural sunscreen for UV light on our skin and in our eyes. One of the most important reasons is that UV radiation is necessary for normal cell division. |
Stacy Malkan
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 The students were developing a new super-thin, water-based polymer that gets sticky when exposed to ultraviolet light. Maybe we should try it in hair, someone suggested. We could shape the hair into a curl, dip it in the polymer and shrinkwrap it into a non-toxic perm. Regular hair perming technologies, in contrast, work by reducing and oxidizing the hair itself. "It's some of the most toxic chemistry out there in the synthetic lab, never mind putting it on your hair," Amy Cannon explained.
The students, thinking the whole thing was funny, put together a PowerPoint presentation as a joke. |
Ray D. Strand
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 High-energy ultraviolet light and visible blue light are especially capable of producing enemy free radicals in the retina of the eye. As you may guess, patients exposed to this high-energy light over an extended period of time have a significantly greater risk of developing
ARMD. Studies suggest that as we get older, the antioxidant defense systems that protect us against the free radicals caused by high-energy light waves declines significantly.11 This obviously upsets the balance our body creates between antioxidants and free radicals and leads to increased damage to the retina of the eye. |
| UVA and UVB ultraviolet light is a well-known carcinogen. I strongly recommend using sunscreen that protects against both. It's a discipline you can't live without. Parents, protect your children.
3. Eat a Low-Fat Diet. Excessive fat intake at meals is known to induce oxidative stress, especially when adequate amounts of antioxidants are missing in that meal. We must decrease saturated-fat intake, making certain we consume at least seven servings of fruits and vegetables and more than thirty-five grams of fiber each day. |
| As we age, the lens of the eye allows more and more ultraviolet light through and no longer protects the retina from this threat.
When it comes to protecting your eyes, the enemy is sunlight. It is very important that we decrease the amount of oxidative stress our body needs to handle. Purchasing high-quality sunglasses that block all UV light and the visible blue light is a great investment. This means that you do not have to neutralize as many free radicals. |
| Several different studies have shown ultraviolet light to produce increased free radicals in human skin.8 This in turn has been proven to produce damage to the DNA in the cells of our skin, which leads to skin cancer. These studies provide the best direct evidence that oxidative stress leads to the development of cancer.
UVB light is the primary culprit responsible for the sun's burning rays, but both UVA and UVB light increase free-radical production in the skin and thus oxidative stress in the skin. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Men who smoke, have HIV/AIDS, or have been treated for psoriasis with ultraviolet light and the drug psoralen are at increased risk of penile cancer, too.
SCROTAL SWELLING
SPEAKING OF SIGNS
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. —Samuel Butler, 19th-century English writer
SIGNIFICANT FACT
If a man notices a soft swelling within his scrotum, it may give him pause, or he may not even give it a second thought. In fact, it's probably nothing to worry about. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Other experiments involving environmental stressors such as heat, cold, lack of nutrients, ultraviolet light, and toxins all come to the same startling conclusion: at the right dose, these potentially lethal factors can actually promote survival.1 Just like desert plants, animals that survive environmental challenges are naturally selected to reproduce when times get better.
I take advantage of hormesis when I perform heart surgery by briefly shutting off the flow of blood to the heart. |
Andreas Moritz
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| CHAPTER 8
Healing Secrets of the Sun— And Why They Boost Your Energy, Strength, and Happiness
The Sun—The Ultimate Source of Life on Earth
Regular exposure of your body to the germicidal wavelength of ultraviolet light (UV) of the sun successfully controls germs, mites, mold, bacteria, and viruses. Its powerful, immune-stimulating effect makes sunlight one of the most important disease-inhibitors. But this is only one of the many benefits sunlight has to offer for enhancing and sustaining human health. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Ergocalciferol, vitamin D2, is made by irradiating ergosterol with ultraviolet light. Ergosterol is derived from the ergot fungus. It is a manmade product and not found in the human body unless it is taken as supplements or in fortified foods. Milk is often fortified with ergocalciferol in the amount of 100 IU per cup. Ergocalciferol has the same biological activity as cholecalciferol and can also be converted to calcidiol and calcitriol. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 A mixed carotenoid complex contains a blend of carotenoids that protects against ultraviolet light damage. Take 25,000 IU twice daily.
Digestive enzymes improve digestion and absorption. Take a full-spectrum complex with each meal.
Grapeseed extract or maritime pine bark extract scavenges free radicals from the eye and the brain and improves circulation. Take 150 to 300 mg daily.
Taurine is an amino acid that is believed to protect the retina from ultraviolet light damage. Take 500 mg twice daily on an empty stomach.
Homeopathy
Homeopathy may be helpful for macular degeneration. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 It surrounds (encapsidates) the RNA, protecting it from threats such as ultraviolet light or enzymes that would normally break it down. This allows that new virus to be picked up by an insect and transported to other plants. In fact, the coat protein typically specifies which species of insect can take up the virus. Since it is possible for a coat protein from one virus to encapsidate another virus, this would allow the latter to be picked up by a new insect species and be transported to a new spectrum of host plants. |
Andreas Moritz
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| The medical community claims that ultraviolet light (UV) is the major cause of skin cancers. This theory is based on the assumption that our thinning ozone layer permits too much of the germicidal UV to penetrate to the surface of the earth and causes destruction of all kinds, including damage to our skin and eye cells. Yet the theory has major flaws and no scientific backing. Contrary to general belief, there is no evidence that reduction in the ozone layer, observed at the poles, has caused any increase in melanomas. |
Bottom Line Health
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| We had previously shown that ultraviolet light has an effect on mood that [people who use tanning beds] value," says Dr. Mandeep Kaur, lead author of the study. "Now, in this small study, we've shown that some tanners actually experience withdrawal symptoms when the 'feel-good' chemicals are blocked."
.-0 The US Food and Drug Administration — can provide more information about the dangers of tanning at www.fda.gov/cdrh/fdaand you/issueO 7. html.
The effects of tanning may be more than just skin deep. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Several independent studies have demonstrated that hypertensive patients who followed a vigorous exercise program for six months lowered their blood pressure by 15 percent, whereas those who had one single exposure to the ultraviolet light of the sun had markedly lower blood pressure readings for five to six days. Exercising in the sun could, therefore, be one of the best non-medical treatments for hypertension, cost-free and without any side effects. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| There was no significant difference in blood flow between control sites and aloe gel treated sites exposed to ultraviolet light. This was true at 6 and 24 hours post-exposure. There was no qualitative difference in erythema. (Crowell et al, 1989).
Treatment of a dermabrasion with an Aloe gel resulted in accelerated healing by about 72 hours in one study (Fulton, 1990). Eighteen full-faced dermabrasions were performed and one-half of each face treated with the standard polyethylene oxide dressing (PEOD), the other side with the dressing saturated with Aloe vera gel. |
| The volar forearm of 16 healthy Caucasian women was exposed to 3x their minimal erythema dose (determined previously) of ultraviolet light. This produced a 31% to 46% reduction in skin concentrations of lycopene. This same dose of light did not appreciably affect the concentration of skin beta-carotene, another carotenoid. Three days after the ultraviolet exposure a 6-mm skin biopsy was obtained and levels of lycopene and beta-carotene determined (Ribaya-Mercado et al, 1995). |
| The authors conclude that Uva-ursi is a promising cosmetic whitening agent because of its potent anti-tyrosinase activity, inhibition of melanin production, superoxide dismutase-like activity, and ability to absorb ultraviolet light (Matsuda et al, 1996). clinical trials
Cystitis
Uva-ursi (as UVA-E) had a prophylactic effect on recurrent cystitis in a double-blind, prospective, randomized study of 57 women. |
| Photosensitivity
Oral carotenoids (25 mg daily) or carotenoids plus vitamin E (500IU daily) reduced ultraviolet light (UV)-induced erythema in 17 healthy volunteers with skin type I or II. After 12 weeks of supplementation, approximate sun protection factors
(SPF) of 2.4 and 3.0 were estimated for carotenoids alone and for carotenoids plus vitamin E, respectively (Stahl et al 2000).
Beta-carotene alone or in combination with canthaxanthin was administered to 36 patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria. Daily doses of 50 mg to 200 mg were given during the summer months. |
Bill Sardi
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| Weaker solar ultraviolet light intensity in the northern states would be consistent with the theory that the lack of vitamin D is linked to lung cancer.
Let's examine more evidence. A study has found that patients who underwent lung cancer surgery for non-small cell cancer during summer months, when vitamin D production is highest from exposure to the sun, had better recurrence-free survival by far, compared to patients who underwent surgery in winter months. The five-year survival rates for patients operated on in summer was 56% compared to just 23% among patients operated on in winter. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| White button mushrooms start out as a good source of vitamin D, but if exposed to ultraviolet light for just five minutes after harvesting, a single serving will contain a powerhouse punch of 869 percent of the daily value of vitamin D! The benefit of this level of vitamin D is currently being investigated. Polyphenols are the main contributor to the antioxidant activity of mushrooms. Another antioxidant called ergothioneine, known for its anticancer properties, reaches its greatest value in fungi. |
Pam Montgomery
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 Russian Professor Alexander Gurwitsch made a profound breakthrough in biophysics when he discovered that plants had rays of ultraviolet light that could affect one another. His original experiment was with an onion. He pointed it, without touching the growing end of the onion, toward the side of another onion and found that, within three hours, mitosis (cell division) began. When he placed glass in front of the onion, mitosis stopped, and when he placed quartz crystal in between, it began again. Glass does not transmit ultraviolet radiation whereas quartz does. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| In the past two decades, researchers have seen that activated vitamin D and vitamin D analogs applied as ointments can reduce or eliminate psoriasis—and enhance the effectiveness of ultraviolet light therapy. Activated vitamin D combined with a vitamin A compound is even more effective.
For centuries people have sunbathed in the Dead Sea as a remedy for skin diseases. The high magnesium content of Dead Sea water is the healing factor. |
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