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Sunlight, Vitamin D
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It's Positively Essential that We Get More Sunlight!
Low blood levels of this essential nutrient (Vitamin D) are associated with increased incidences of virtually every human disease. (Am J Clin Nutr. 2008; Drugs Aging. 2007; J Nutr. Nov. 2005).
This nutrient drastically slashes the incidences of the most common aging-related disorders. Optimal vitamin D blood levels are over 50 ng/mL, yet most Americans' levels test below 30. (Am J Clin Nutr. July 2006; J Nutr. Nov. 2005; Mayo Clin Proc. Dec. 2003).
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, April 30, 2009 evaluated blood levels for vitamin D in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The average serum vitamin D level was only 16 ng/mL. All patients with undetectable levels of vitamin D died.
Patients with the lowest vitamin D blood levels had the most severe organ dysfunction and the most adverse outcomes.... --Life Extension, Oct/Nov/Dec 2009.
Comment: A caveat is in order. Zane R. Kime, MD, MS, writing in SUNLIGHT notes that "unless one has a proper diet, sunlight has an ill effect on the skin. This must be emphasized: sunbathing is dangerous for those who are on the standard high-fat American diet or do not get an abundance of vegetables, whole grains, and fresh fruits. Those on the standard high-fat diet should stay out of the sun and protect themselves from it; but at the same time they will suffer the consequences of both the high-fat diet and the deficiency of sunlight."
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Re: Sunlight, Vitamin D
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Vitamin D Revelations
The far-reaching health effects of sufficient vitamin D--the sunshine vitamin--are coming to light. Heretofore, vitamin D deficiency was only identified with weak bones, muscle pain and muscle weakness. Now there's mounting evidence that an inadequate supply of this vitamin is intrinsically linked to degenerative disease. Indeed, evidence is mounting that adequate amounts of vitamin D protects against cancer, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, autoimmune diseases (including juvenile diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis), periodontal disease and some mental disorders. Crohn's disease and some forms of hearing loss, various skin disorders like psoriasis and scleroderma can also be involved. People with epilepsy may need supplementation to replace vitamin D depleted by medication and research indicates that this vitamin helps maintain healthy immunity and helps regulate cell growth and differentiation.
Of course, the best known biologic role of vitamin D is the maintenance of normal blood levels of calcium and phosphorus. This vitamin along with other vitamins, minerals and hormones helps form and maintain strong bones. Indeed, without sufficient vitamin D, the bones cannot lay down calcium. And this can result in the development of rickets in children and ostoemalacia in adults.
Rickets in children involves skeletal deformities, including spinal curvature and and the classic symptom, bowed legs. Ostoemalacia, the adult version also results in weak bones, bone pain, muscle weakness and muscle pain. These symptoms of osteomalacia are often misdiagnosed. One common disguise is fibromyalgia. How many doctors would suspect a deficiency of vitamin D?
Let the Sunshine In! It wasn't very many years ago that most humans got plenty of sunlight and made tens of thousands of units of vitamin D in the strong sun. Now most of us do not get this kind of exposure, and this is the basis of the case for widespread severe vitamin D deficiency in modern humans. Medical researchers fear that a whole host of degenerative disease may be related to this deficiency. Up until now, no one has related degenerative disease to chronic, ongoing depletion of vitamin D.
Unfortunately, most have become convinced that sunlight is bad for us. Some go for days, weeks, even months without the sun touching their skin. Others slather on sunscreen every time they venture out into the sunlight. (This blocks the production of vitamin D).
Dawn of a New Day - That's right, the pharmaceutical giants have many of us brainwashed with the lies that we need their ridiculously expensive concoctions in order to alleviate the many common maladies that are wreaking havoc in our land. Now researchers are finding that the simple expedient of a correct diet; getting an adequate amount of exercise, rest, water, and sunlight, etc. can work wonders and give the drug companies the "boot."
Here are other benefits of getting adequate vitamin D:
* 25 million adult Americans have or at risk of developing osteoporosis. Researchers have found higher bone density and fewer fractures in older adults who were given calcium and vitamin D compared with those given a placebo. 50% of women with osteoporosis who were hospitalized with hip fractures had signs of a vitamin D deficiency.
* High blood pressure, a heart disease risk factor is associated with problems in metabolizing calcium and with low levels of stored vitamin D. African Americans have a significantly higher prevalence of high blood pressure and lower vitamin D levels. One reason for this is that Blacks have an inherent difficulty accumulating vitamin D from sunlight.
* Over 60 years of observation have shown an association between high sun exposure and a lowered incidence of cancer. It's ironically so...after years of being warned to avoid the sun because of skin cancer risk, vitamin D researchers have discovered that the possibility of dying from low vitamin D status is far greater than that of dying from UV-induced skin cancers. Patients with colon, prostate, breast and several other cancers, all benefit from sun exposure.... Women with higher levels of vitamin D showed substantially reduced risk of breast cancer.
* A research team from New Zealand showed that type 2 diabetes is four times more likely in Americans with low vitamin D levels. It's important to note that both type 2 diabetes and heart disease are associated with obesity. Besides other health risks, obese persons have low levels of circulating vitamin D.
* Autoimmune Diseases can be directly affected by vitamin D. Autoimmune responses involved immune cells called T-cells. Biologically active vitamin D can interact with the T-cells so that the autoimmune response is diminished. There is evidence for this interaction with type I diabetes (juvenile or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus), multiple sclerosis (MS), and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). An inadequate vitamin D intake may actually be at cause for the development of both juvenile diabetes and MS. Vitamin D therapy is also proving useful to those with lupus (SLE, another autoimmune disease).
And on and on it goes. Indeed, Dr. Robert Heaney, a vitamin D researcher at Creighton University, warned: "I don't like to overstate things, but I think we may find that vitamin D deficiency is a public health crisis." Source: Clark's Nutrition News.
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Re: Sunlight, Vitamin D
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The New Supervitamin
The "D" in vitamin D doesn't stand for "deficiency" but it might as well. Current guidelines call for 200 to 600 IU daily; many researachers now believe we may need up to 1,000 IU or more....from D-rich foods, 10 to 15 minutes of direct sunlight daily, and supplements. New studies show stocking up on the "sunshine vitamin" may improve you health in a variety of ways. Here's why becoming a devotee of D is such a bright idea.
Getting Enough D can...
*Relieve back aches. Among 360 chronic back pain patients, symptoms improved in 95% of those who took a high dose of vitamin D daily for 3 months.
* Ward off cancer. Higher levels may cut in half your risk of getting breast, colon or rectal cancer; consuming 300 IU or more daily reduced pancreataic cancer risk up to 44%, compared with those who consumed less that 150 IU daily.
* Deter diabetes. In a study or more that 83,000 women, those with the highest combined intakes of calcium and vitamin D had the lowest risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Being D-Deficient Can...
* Damage your heart. Inadequate amounts may increase the risk of peripheral artery disease by 80%.
* Weaken bones. 85% of women hospitalized for osteoporotic hip fractures have a deficiency, according to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
* Increase the blues. Blood levels of D were 14% lower in depressed individuals, a recent study showed.
* Shorten your life. Among over 13,000 adults, a deficiency boosted premature death risk by 26%. --Prevention, December 2008.
Comment: The amount of vitamin D necessary for vibrant health seems to be higher than mentioned in this article.
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Re: Sunlight, Vitamin D
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Beyond Bone Health
Vitamin D deficiency is due to insufficient sun exposure and difficulty obtaining the "sunshine vitamin" from dietary sources. Even foods fortified with D tend to provide less of this vitamin than we need. Absorption problems (such as those experienced in Crohn's disease and gluten intolerance) can also lead to low levels of this vitamin.
D deficiency is linked to high blood pressure, obesity, and Type 2 diabetes, as well as loss of bone density. By contrast, higher blood levels of this vitamin appear to double survival rates in colorectal cancer, Harvard researchers find. Similar results have been reported for breast and other cancers. Indeed, ovarian cancer rates are higher in northern latitudes where sun exposure is not a reliable source of vitamin D.
"Vitamin D levels are lower in the elderly than in younger people," adds June K. Robinson, MD, editor of Archives of Dermatology.
One study of Utah residents 50 and older with vitamin D deficiency showed they are 45% more likely to develop coronary artery disease and 78% more likely to have a stroke. Unfortunately, two-thirds of that state's population are low in this important vitamin.
While safety is an important consideration in creating recommendations for nutrient intake--especially with a fat-soluble vitamin like D that is stored in the body--John N. Hathcock, PhD, and colleagues at the Council for Responsible Nutrition believe that the current recommended upper limit (UL) for vitamin D (50 micrograms or 2,000 IU) could be increased safely. The absence of toxicity in new research trials conducted in healthy adults indicate that "a vitamin D dose of 250 mcg (10,000 IU vitamin D3) per day" may be a more appropriate UL, they write in a recent report. --American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Nov. 11, 2009, and others.
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Re: Sunlight, Vitamin D
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SUNLIGHT by Ellen White
"There are but few who realize that, in order to enjoy health and cheerfulness, they must have an abundance of sunlight, pure air, and physical exercise. We pity little children who are kept confined indoors when the sun is shining gloriously without.
"Clothe your boys and girls comfortably and properly....Then let them go out and exercise in the open air, and live to enjoy health and happiness.
"The pale and sickly grain-blade that has struggled up out of the cold of early spring puts out the natural and healthy deep green after enjoying for a few days the health-and-life-giving rays of the sun. Go out into the light and warmth of the glorious sun,...and share with vegetation its life-giving, healing power.
"No room in the house should be considered furnished and adorned without the cheering, enlivening light and sunshine, which are Heaven's own free gift to man....
"When God had made our world, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, He said, let there be light, and there was light. And God saw the light that it was good. Shall we close our houses, and exclude from them the light which God has pronounced good?
"If you would have your homes sweet and inviting, make them bright with air and sunshine....The precious sunlight may fade your carpets, but it will give a healthful color to the cheeks of your children. If you have God's presence, and possess earnest, loving hearts, a humble home, made bright with air and sunlight...will be to your family...a heaven below.
"Exercise and a free abundant use of the air and sunlight--blessings which Heaven has freely bestowed upon all--would give life and strength." --My Life Today, p. 138.
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Re: Sunlight, Vitamin D
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02/11/10 07:00 PM
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BREAST CANCER VIRTUALLY "ERADICATED" WITH HIGHER LEVELS OF VITAMIN D
In a gathering of vitamin D researchers recently held in Toronto, Dr. Cedric Garland delivered a blockbuster announcement: Breast cancer can be virtually "eradicated" by raising vitamin D levels.
Vitamin D is finally gaining some of the recognition it deserves as a miraculous anti-cancer nutrient. It is the solution for cancer prevention. It could save hundreds of thousands of lives each year in the U.S. alone. Even Dr. Andrew Weil recently raised his recommendation of vitamin D to 2,000 IU per day.
This is the vitamin that could destroy the cancer industy and save millions of women from the degrading, harmful cancer "treatments" pushed by conventional medicine.
Breast cancer is a disease so directly related to vitamin D deficiency that a woman's risk of contracting the disease can be 'virtually eradicated' by elevating her vitamin D status to what vitamin D scientists consider to be natural blood levels.
That's the message vitamin pioneer Dr. Cedric Garland delivered in Toronto February 2, 2010 as part of the University of Toronto School of Medicine's "Diagnosis and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency" conference--the largest gathering of vitamin D researchers in North America this year. More than 170 researchers, public health officials and health practitioners gathered at the U.T. faculty club for the landmark event.
Garland's presentation headlined a conference that reviewed many aspects of the emerging vitamin D research field--a booming discipline that has seen more then 3,000 academic papers this calendar year alone, conference organizers said. That makes vitamin D by far the most prolific topic in medicine this year, with work connecting it with risk reduction in 2 dozen forms of cancer, heart disease, multiple scleroses and many other disorders.
Dr. Reinhold Vieth, Associate Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto, and Director of the Bone and Mineral Laboratory at Mt. Sinai Hospital, organized the event in conjunction with Grassroots Health--an international vitamin D advocacy group founded by breast cancer survivor Carole Baggerly.
Baggerly implored the research group to take action and encouraged Canadians to learn more about vitamin D and to raise their vitamin D levels.
An estimated 22,700 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009, according to the Canadian Cancer Society's latest figures.
As many as 97% of Canadians are vitamin D deficient at some point in the year, according to University of Calgary research--largely due to Canada's northerly latitudes and weak sun exposure. Sunshine is by far the most abundant source of vitamin D--called "The Sunshine Vitamin. Vitamin D supplementation helps raise levels for many as well.
Grassroots Health's "D-action" panel--30 of the world's leading researchers on vitamin D and many other vitamin D supporters--recommend 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily and vitamin D blood levels of 100 - 150 nanomoles-per liter as measured by a vitamin D blood test.
Vieth pointed out that natural vitamin D levels of mammals who live outdoors in sunny climates is higher than that--up to 200 nanomoles-per liter. And Garland, whose presentation was entitled Breast Cancer as a Vitamin D Deficiency Disease, presented new evidence that low vitamin D status compromises the integrity of calcium-based cellular bonding within tissues, which when eroded allow rogue cancer cells to spread more readily.
Grassroots Health is trying to raise vitamin D awareness among Canadians. Despite epidemic-level vitamin D deficiency in Canada, fewer than 9% of Canadians have ever had their vitamin D levels checked by a professional and most who have do not know their vitamin D blood level. --NaturalNews.com by Mike Adams.
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Re: Sunlight, Vitamin D
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More Info on the subject....
Vitamin D Prevents Breast Cancer
(NaturalNews) You've heard the good news about vitamin D for years: It's a "miracle" medicine that reduces cancer rates by 77% according to important research. It also happens to be a powerful anti-cancer medicine that can both prevent and reverse breast cancer.
Here is a compilation of expert quotations on vitamin D and breast cancer, cited from some of the most authoritative books and authors in the world. Feel free to share what you learn here with others who may benefit from this information.
"Sunlight triggers the formation of vitamin D in the skin, which can be activated in the liver and kidneys into a hormone with great activity. This activated form of vitamin D causes 'cellular differentiation'--essentially the opposite of cancer. The following evidence indicates that vitamin D might have a protective role against breast cancer: synthetic vitamin D-like molecules have prevented the equivalent of breast cancer in animals. --The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions, by Alan R. Gaby, MD, Johathan V. Wright, MD, etc.
"Two equally effective sources of vitamin D in humans are derived from plant ergosterol, which is converted to ergocalciferol (vitamin D2) and cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) by the action of sunlight on the skin. The body uses vitamin D3 for normal immune system function, to control cellular growth, and to absorb calcium from the digestive trace. Vitamin D3 can inhibit the growth of malignant melanoma, breast cancer, leukemuia, and mammary tumors in laboratory animals. Vitamin D3 can also inhibit angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels that permit the spread of cancer cells through the body." --Permanent Remissions, by Robert Hass, MS.
"There's surprising new evidence that older women who skimp on foods rich in vitamin D are more likely to develop breast cancer, according to Frank Garland, Ph.D, of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at the University of California at San Diego...Specifically, Dr. Garland finds that dietary vitamin D wards off postmenopausal breast cancer in women...." --Food Your Miracle Medicine, by Jean Carper.
"In animals fed a high fat diet, which normally would produce a higher incidence of colon cancer, supplements of calcium and vitamin D blocked this carcinogenic effect of the diet. Vitamin D inhibits the growth of breast cancer in culture, and also seems to subdue human breast cancer. Cells from human prostate cancer were put into a '...permanent nonproliferative state', or shut down the cancer process, by the addition of vitamin D. Human cancer cells have been shown to have receptor sites, or stereo specific 'parking spaces' for vitamin D." --Beating Cancer with Nutrition by Patrick Quillin.
"Even though vitamin D is one of the most powerful healing chemicals in your body, your body makes it absolutely free. No prescription required. Diseases and conditions caused by vitamin D deficiency: Osteoporosis is commonly caused by a lack of vitamin D, which impairs calcium absorption. Sufficient vitamin D prevents prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, depression, colon cancer, and schizophrenia. 'Rickets' is the name of a bone-wasting disease caused by vitamin D deficiency. --Natuiral Health Solutions, by Mike Adams.
"George's Hospital Medical School in London finds local production of vitamin D in breast tissue reduces the risk for breast cancer. For women with low breast tissue levels of vitamin D the risk for breast cancer rose by 354%! ...The provision of 400 IU of vitamin D per day has been found to reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer by 43%." --You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Any More by Bill Sardi.
"Taken together, these facts suggest that vitamin D and its derivatives may play a role in regulating the exp​ression of genes and protein products that prevent and inhibit breast cancer. The cancer-stopping power of vitamin D has been documented in osteosarcoma (bone cancer), melanoma, colon cancer, and breast cancer. These cancer cells contain vitamin-D receptors that make them susceptible to the anticancer effects of this vitamin-hormone made by the skin when it is exposed to sunlight." --Permanent Remissions by Robert Hass, MS.
"Nature is God's physician. The pure air, the glad sunshine, the beautiful flowers and trees, the orchards and vineyards, and outdoor exercise amid these surroundings, are health-giving--the elixir of life. Outdoor life is the only medicine that many invalids need. Its influence is powerful to heal sickness caused by fashionable life, a life that weakens and destroys the physical, mental, and spiritual powers." --Ellen White, Counsels on Health.
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Vitamin D, Heart Disease and Stroke
Finnish researchers assiduously measured blood vitamin D levels of 2,817 men and over 3,000 women (average age 49) and followed the participants for 27 years. During that time, 480 men and 453 women died from heart disease or stroke.
Those with the lowest levels of vitamin D had a 25% greater risk of dying ftrom heart attack or stroke than those with the highest vitamin D levels. The risk of death from stroke was twice as high among those with the lowest levels of vitamin D than it was among those with the highest levels. --American Journal of Epidemiology, Oct. 15, 2009.
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Sunshine is Nature's Disease Fighter
Medical researchers are growing increasingly excited about a wonder "drug" that may significantly reduce your risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many other diseases--sunshine. One recent study found that men who are deficient in vitamin D, which the body produces in response to sunlight, have more than double the normal risk of suffering a heart attack.
Indeed, men with vitamin D levels below 15 nanograms per milliliter had 2.5 times the risk of having a heart attack or dying--even after controlling for all other possible risk factors such as hypertension, obesity and high lipid levels.
Another study found that low levels of vitamin D increased the risk of diabetes, and yet another linked vitamin D deficiencies to an increased risk of dying from breast cancer. These findings all join a growing body of evidence indicating that an adequate level of this vitamin, which many p[eople can get fromn 20 minutes in the sun each day is crucial to maintaining good health. --Arcives of Internal Medicine, June 9, 2008.
Inspiration says: "Invalids too often deprive themselves of sunlight. This is one of nature's most healing agents. It is a very simple, therefore not a fashionable remedy, to enjoy the rays of God's sunlight and beautify our homes with its presence....It is not God who has brought upon us the many woes to which mortals are heirs. Our own folly has led us to deprive ourselves of things that are precious, of blessings which God has provided and which, if properly used, are of inestimable value for the recovery of health. If you would have your homes sweet and inviting, make them bright with air and sunshine...." Ellen White, Testimonies, Vol 2:527.
"Let your judgment be convinced that exercise, sunlight, and air are the blessings which Heaven has provided to make the sick well and to keep in health those who are not sick." --Ibid, 535.
A word to the wise!!!!
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Vitamin D and the Brain
Adults 65 and older with low blood levels of Vitamin D are up to 60% more likely to experience substantial mental decline, according to a study in the July 12, 2010, issue of the Archives of Internal Mediine. --Consumer Reports on Health
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