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 Sunscreen checkpoints will also be set up in public places where sunlight may occur, and any citizen who fails to test positive for the presence of sunscreen on their skin will be immediately arrested and charged with trafficking vitamin D.
Hat companies and sunscreen manufacturers hailed the FDA's decision.
The FDA has also alerted the news media to the fact that, since many fish contain vitamin D, the fish inventory in grocery stores around the country will be confiscated, and fish oil products will no longer be allowed on the market. |
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 So here's another question then. If sunlight could be bottled up and put in capsules and patented by pharmaceutical companies, how much would they charge for it?
Dr. Holick: Well, vitamin D is available pharmaceutically. And it's shocking but true that they're charging about $10 per pill for my patients.
Adams: $10 per pill?
Dr. Holick: Yes.
Adams: And that's for 1000 units?
Dr. Holick: No, that's for 50,000 units. I typically treat my patients with 50,000 units of vitamin D once a week for 8 weeks, followed by 50,000 units of vitamin D every other week. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And the reason is, as we had shown many years ago, that when you're exposed to sunlight, your body makes enough vitamin D, and that any excess that's made is destroyed by the sun.
Adams: So it's a self-regulating system, and that's the best way to go.
Dr. Holick: Exactly. And basically it tells you that Mother Nature really had always programmed for you to get your vitamin D requirements from some sensible sun exposure.
Adams: What about storage of vitamin D in the body. If someone lives in a climate where it gets cloudy for 2 months in a row, what then?
Dr. Holick: Excellent point. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Pearl explains, "Studies show that people who spend a lot of time indoors away from windows, away from sunlight, have a disproportionate amount of insomnia. They have difficulty sleeping for the same reason that blind people do. Nine out of ten blind people have severe sleep problems because they are not getting sunlight into the retina of their eyes, into the brain to tell the brain that it is time to be awake during the day. The more light stimuli you can give your body during the day, the stronger your sleep-wake rhythm will be. I am talking about sunlight in particular. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As I explained, it takes months, it takes years to become vitamin D deficient, and to have such problems with your bones and muscles, and it takes months at least if not up to a year of intensive vitamin D treatment and sunlight exposure in order to reverse that effect.
Adams: That's an important bit of information: you're saying months to years to reverse the deficiency?
Dr. Holick: Right, but what I also tell my patients is that they'll begin to feel better after a month or two, but it's not something that's going to happen overnight. |
| Holick: Doesn't matter actually, because vitamin D rays are absorbed by the glass, so even if you're exposed to sunlight through glass, you can't make any vitamin D.
Adams: And that's all glass?
Dr. Holick: All glass. And so if you're driving in the car all the time, it's not going to do you any good. But the bottom line is this -- a study was done in Mass General Hospital. They found over 50% of inpatients - these are young adults, and middle aged, and older adults - were vitamin D deficient. |
| So people will wake up in the morning in winter time, their melatonin levels are not suppressed as they should be if you're exposed to some bright sunlight, and as a result they feel tired and they want to hibernate throughout the winter. They get depressed.
There is one study, however, that looked at patients with seasonal affective disorder and looked at exposing them to a tanning bed, and looking at their vitamin D levels, and they could show a direct benefit from increasing blood levels of 25-hydroxy vitamin D and relief of symptoms of seasonal affective disorder. |
| And she was told, because she was older when she had her first pregnancy that she was at very high risk of having a potential problem, that she should never be exposed to any sunlight.
Adams: Unbelievable!
Dr. Holick: And so she followed her physician's advice. And then she was told that when she gives birth, that she should solely breastfeed her infant, and that the infant should not receive any extra outside nutrition or supplements. And she followed the physician's advice.
Adams: And passed on the vitamin D deficiency.
Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And there's no question that chronic, excessive exposure to sunlight increases risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer, which is Basal or Squamous cell cancer. I make that very clear in my book.
Adams: Right.
Dr. Holick: But there's very little evidence in my opinion that sensible, moderate sun exposure increases your risk of the most deadly form of skin cancer, melanoma. In fact, there's good evidence to suggest that it may decrease your risk.
Adams: What about sunscreen products? The sunscreen manufacturers, I think they're happy to go along with the idea that sun should be avoided. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Michael Holick's face, and hopefully increasing awareness of the importance of sunlight exposure across the U.S. population -- especially in the medical community. |
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 Adams: How do you think our country would look in terms of healthcare costs or patient counts if every person were out there getting sensible sunlight and getting adequate vitamin D? What would change?
Dr. Holick: It's almost incalculable, because like I said if you just think about the study that was done in Finland where it can reduce your risk of getting type 1 diabetes by 80%. |
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| The lighter, or fairer, your skin, the less sunlight you need. By the way, one of the people commenting on this study was so baffled by the results they said, "It must all be due to vitamin D, and if you want vitamin D, there are better places to get it like drinking milk." It's typical advice from conventional medicine. They’re still telling people to avoid the sun and, instead, drink lots of cows' milk. How's that for lousy health advice? |
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| Because they have ones that warn people about overexposure, but not ones that tell people how much sunlight they actually need.
Dr. Holick: We've thought about that, and we've developed a method where we can tell you how much vitamin D you're making, but it's somewhat cumbersome, and it's probably going to take a lot more effort before such a product could potentially be available.
Adams: I certainly hope you find cause to pursue that, because I think that would be a great aid to people. There's a big question mark when people go outside - they don't know how much time ... |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| They're already being advised to tell people to get more sunlight and not to wear sunscreen every time they go outside, at least not for the first few minutes of sun exposure. So the UK is well ahead of the U.S. in this thinking. The U.S. seems to be the last country in the world to acknowledge any healing benefits of therapies outside of drugs, surgery and radiation. It seems to take forever for U.S. doctors to come around to the idea nature has some wisdom when it comes to healing. |
| 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. |
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| Adams: OK, Boston, so not exactly the sunlight capital of the world there, either, but for those who are looking to go right to the top here, to work with the expert, can they contact you at uvadvantage.com?
Dr. Holick: It's probably difficult to do that, but I think what they could do is probably to get in touch with you and I can give you some of that information.
Adams: OK, that sounds great, I'll be happy to pass on the contact information for anyone who emails us and wants to come visit you. |
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| I'm giving you vitamin D, and I'm telling you to go out and be exposed to some sunlight, and you're going to start feeling better in a month or two. Hopefully you'll get in your wheelchair, and then eventually you'll be able to walk within six months. And then sure enough, I just saw her in clinic this past Monday, and she now is up and walking around, using a walker. Really almost for the first time in half a dozen years.
Adams: Fascinating. How many other people are in nursing homes and hospitals right now suffering from nothing more complicated than this deficiency?
Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That includes people who don't get enough sunlight (or who have been brainwashed into using sunscreen all the time) and who eat atrocious diets lacking in vitamin D sources like fish oils. The problem with TB is not simply the person walking around with the bacteria, it's the people who are in such poor nutritional health that they're practically begging to be infected by something.
This is why TB is now an epidemic in the UK, by the way: There's very little sunlight at that latitude, and more than 80 percent of UK citizens are vitamin D deficient. |
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. |
Jack Challem
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 Levels of melatonin tend to increase in the evening, decrease toward morning, and decrease further when we expose ourselves to sunlight. sunlight suppresses the production of melatonin.
When it's cloudy, when we spend too much time indoors, or when we commute to and from work in the darker days of fall and winter, we're less likely to dispose of our excess melatonin. As a result, our circadian rhythm gets out of kilter, and we tend to feel depressed or physically sluggish.
There are several ways to rectify the problem and reset our circadian clocks. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 The invention of the light bulb allows us to spend much more time awake than in the past, which is great for cramming more into each day, but it's not great for our health. sunlight controls numerous hormonal and chemical messengers within most plants and animals, a process referred to as circadian rhythm. The amount of sunlight also controls our genetic drive to store fat for the winter when long days start to shorten, signaling autumn's approach. In fact, the clock gene (yes, that's its real name) has been found in all animals, including humans. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And get more sunlight and vitamin D. That's the single most powerful thing you can do to prevent breast cancer, other than perhaps quitting smoking. But if you don't smoke already, getting sunlight and vitamin D is the single most important thing you can do to prevent cancer, period!
Here's the full press release from Breast Cancer Action (www.BCAction. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can get all the vitamin D you need absolutely free of charge by exposing your skin to sunlight. See http://www.newstarget.com/rr-sunlight.html
Every woman who prevents breast cancer represents a LOSS of $800,000 in revenue for the breast cancer industry
Chemotherapy causes permanent brain damage. See http://www.newstarget.com/020665.html
Also see: http://www.newstarget.com/021200.html
There is no such thing as a pharmaceutical "cure" for breast cancer. The "search for the cure" is a marketing gimmick.
Mammography harms 10 women for every 1 woman that it helps. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 It's the subject of an entire track on my Twenty-Three Ways to Improve Your Life CD set (under the heading "get sensible sunlight"). New research is showing its importance in preventing cancer. We now know that it's essential for bone strength. Sex hormones are made from the stuff. Populations that don't get much sunlight are at greater risk for multiple sclerosis. And now new research is pointing to the fact that physical performance— especially in older folks—is significantly affected by their vitamin D status. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 The human body needs sunlight to function at optimal levels and be healthy. Without sunlight, a whole host of physical abnormalities and diseases become prevalent. Without sunlight, you develop diseases, including depression, lack of energy, poor sleep, poor digestion, weight gain, arthritis, constipation, bad breath, body odor, cancer, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, attention deficit disorder, stress, headaches, susceptibility to colds, flus, and viral infections, PMS, male erectile dysfunction, loss of sexual desire in women, infertility, anxiety, and more. |
Jack Challem
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| Levels of melatonin tend to increase in the evening, decrease toward morning, and decrease further when we expose ourselves to sunlight. sunlight suppresses the production of melatonin.
When it's cloudy, when we spend too much time indoors, or when we commute to and from work in the darker days of fall and winter, we're less likely to dispose of our excess melatonin. As a result, our circadian rhythm gets out of kilter, and we tend to feel depressed or physically sluggish.
There are several ways to rectify the problem and reset our circadian clocks. |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 We attempt to get as much sunlight as possible. 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The idea that a nutrient like vitamin D -- available free of charge from sunlight -- might actually prevent depression, osteoporosis and cancer all at the same time is downright horrifying to conventional medicine. How would doctors, hospitals and drug companies handle the loss of tens of millions of revenue-generating patients if people suddenly learned the truth about vitamin D and started preventing all three of these diseases at home, without a prescription, and without paying any fees whatsoever?
Conventional medicine doesn't like to admit that sunlight has any healing powers whatsoever. |
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