Posted on 01/14/2019 9:09:53 AM PST by Hojczyk
As it turns out, a rogue band of researchers has had an explanation all along. And if they’re right, it means that once again we have been epically misled.
These rebels argue that what made the people with high vitamin D levels so healthy was not the vitamin itself. That was just a marker. Their vitamin D levels were high because they were getting plenty of exposure to the thing that was really responsible for their good health—that big orange ball shining down from above.
Weller’s doubts began around 2010, when he was researching nitric oxide, a molecule produced in the body that dilates blood vessels and lowers blood pressure. He discovered a previously unknown biological pathway by which the skin uses sunlight to make nitric oxide.
It was already well established that rates of high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, and overall mortality all rise the farther you get from the sunny equator, and they all rise in the darker months. Weller put two and two together and had what he calls his “eureka moment”: Could exposing skin to sunlight lower blood pressure?
When I spoke with Weller, I made the mistake of characterizing this notion as counterintuitive. “It’s entirely intuitive,” he responded. “Homo sapiens have been around for 200,000 years. Until the industrial revolution, we lived outside. How did we get through the Neolithic Era without sunscreen? Actually, perfectly well. What’s counterintuitive is that dermatologists run around saying, ‘Don’t go outside, you might die.’”
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This is worth a read it is pretty long.
.Every year, Richard Weller spends time working in a skin hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Not only is Addis Ababa near the equator, it also sits above 7,500 feet, so it receives massive UV radiation. Despite that, says Weller, “I have not seen a skin cancer. And yet Africans in Britain and America are told to avoid the sun.”
People of color rarely get melanoma. The rate is 26 per 100,000 in Caucasians, 5 per 100,000 in Hispanics, and 1 per 100,000 in African Americans. On the rare occasion when African Americans do get melanoma, it’s particularly lethal—but it’s mostly a kind that occurs on the palms, soles, or under the nails and is not caused by sun exposure.
I’ve been ignoring this particular advice for decades.
Getting out in the sun is good for you.
And taking vitamin D is good but it is no substitute for that big yellow glowing thing in the sky. I have no doubt that many cases of Depression (not just those diagnosed as S.A.D.) are linked to not getting enough sun.
I make a lot of bone broth now and sip it every day. The Chicken stock has schmaltz, and the Beef stock has tallow. Saturated fat? I think it's good for me. I cook with lard too.
A lot of medical studies are worth nothing. Many can't be duplicated. Many studies have conclusions which are contradicted by the data outlined in the study. Big Medicine is big business, and the "official word" is whatever someone wants to pay for.
Life expectancy today is better than it was hundreds of years ago. Why? Much better infant mortality rates, and also antibiotics and vaccines. That's pretty much it.
I know they've done genuinely good work on some cancers, but for the most part, I don't think doctors have good advice on how to be healthy. I'll let them deal with problems when problems occur. But preventing problems? I don't think they have a clue.
I’m not putting sunscreen on my toast even if it is margarine.
I don’t like red lobster so for the first few days at the beach I’m going use sunscreen.
I can not argue with your reasoning.....
SPF 30 tastes lousy on toast.
The data has shown sunscreen to be useless for a long time. 3 things have been steadily going up for over 20 years: American use of sunscreen, America’s rate of skin cancer, and America’s rate of vitamin D deficiency. We don’t actually know what part of the the solar spectrum contributes to skin cancer, but it’s quite clear sunscreen does nothing about it.
I don’t either so I stopped eating there.
Try to find a face makeup without sunscreen in it. There are none.
My late father-in-law, a construction worker who worked outside, was anti sun screen.
Take the sun in moderation. Don’t fry yourself for hours in just a bathing suit.
Didn’t get a lot of sun for about 6 months a year in SE Alaska - had to take cod liver oil every day for Vitamin D.
The lack of Vitamin D contributes to cancer. That’s why sunscreen use is linked to higher cancer rates, and not just skin cancer.
If dermatologists told skin cancer patients that it is OK to go out in the sun with no protection, and then the patient gets a new skin cancer, the doctor will be sued for malpractice.
Well said!
One study said that the light needs to come through the eye as well as on the skin.
I live in the NV desert. It is weird but the sun is no longer yellow, it is white! Has anyone else, in other areas, noticed that the sun looks white white instead of yellow?
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