David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 It opens the "emotional windows" and lets the sunlight in.
As I mentioned in the Lemon Balm monograph, the combination of that herb and St. John's wort is very effective for people with seasonal affective disorder, which is caused by a lack of sunlight.
St. John's wort also can be used with rosemary and evening primrose herb (the herb, not the oil) for bilious, or hepatic, depression. This type of depression is synonymous with the description of melancholia given previously.
Dosage and Safety
Tincture (1:2 or 1:5): 40-60 drops, three to four times per day. Tea: Add 2 tsp. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There's no program in place to teach women about the anti-cancer effects of sunlight and vitamin D (in fact, cancer industry groups like the American Cancer Society run public service ads warning people about sunlight!), there's no honest effort to teach women about the natural anti-cancer medicine founds in certain foods, and no one is telling women the truth about the cancer-causing chemicals in perfumes, laundry detergent, cosmetics and personal care products. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Once you see this map, you'll instantly understand the link between sunlight, geographic latitude, skin color, vitamin D and breast cancer.)
Is there no sunlight in Chicago?
Is there an IQ vortex in Chicago that sucks the intelligence out of doctors' heads? How did 100 doctors, nurses and cancer experts get together for a task force on breast cancer and completely miss the single most obvious cause of the disease in black women? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There's no money in recommending sunlight, even though the creation of vitamin D through sunlight actually drops breast cancer rates by nearly fifty percent.
With good nutrition and avoidance of cancer-causing chemicals, we could eliminate around 90 percent of the cancer in modern nations. Doctors are not taught nutrition in medical school. They actually graduate from medical school as nutritionally ignorant practitioners of medicine. How can you claim to practice medicine when you don't understand the relationship between food and health? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Let's teach people about the real health potential of sunlight. Let's teach them that if you get sunlight on your skin, you can prevent prostate cancer, breast cancer, and type 2 diabetes. You can prevent osteoporosis, schizophrenia, mental depression, and many other diseases and disorders just by getting some natural sunlight.
So this is my crazy idea: Let's ban the things that kill people, while supporting the things that improve people's quality of life, keep people healthy, and prevent chronic disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The more I learn about sunshine, the more fascinating it becomes. sunlight is an essential nutrient for optimal human health. It's something that every person needs, and yet as I am increasingly observing, very few people get sufficient sunlight. Part of that is because most of us work indoors, and so we sit under artificial light rather than getting the natural light nature intended our bodies to have.
There are some interesting issues here as far as workplace health, and what employers could do to help their employees receive some healing natural sunlight. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Given all the information now available on the health benefits of vitamin D and natural sunlight exposure, it is encouraging to learn that 56 percent of readers have now taken steps to experience more sunlight. sunlight is, quite simply, the single most powerful healing therapy available to us. It's available free of charge. It is essentially infinite in duration, and through the creation of vitamin D, it helps prevent and reverse many types of cancer and other chronic diseases, including schizophrenia, depression, osteoporosis and even gum disease. |
Joseph Campbell
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| Where he could not see the moonlight, Neither could behold the sunlight.
Then he spake the words which follow, And expressed his thoughts in this wise:
"Aid me Moon, and Sun release me, And the Great Bear lend his counsel, Through the portal that I know not, Through the unaccustomed passage. From the little nest that holds me, From a dwelling-place so narrow, To the land conduct the roamer, To the open air conduct me, To behold the moon in heaven, And the splendor of the sunlight; See the Great Bear's stars above me, And the shining stars in heaven. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If we don't have sunlight, we cannot possibly be healthy individuals. sunlight is essential for human health, and of course, the sunscreen companies are going to fight this with their last dying breath, but the fact is that we are far healthier if we eat high-antioxidant, nutrient-dense foods, and get sunlight without sunscreen.
We simply don't need to spend a lot of time and money buying sunscreen and applying it to our skin all the time. Nor do we have to absorb all the dangerous toxic chemicals that are found in sunscreen products, such as cancer-causing fragrance chemicals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But the real test would come from wearing them during a workout, so I took them outside to dry them in the sun (since we have such great sunlight here in Arizona, I often use it for drying clothes). After a few hours of blazing desert sunlight, the clothes were completely dry. I suited up with a pair of workout pants and an A shirt, then headed to the gym for an intense workout designed to produce lots of sweat.
The short version of this story is that the clothes were really, truly clean and they smelled just fine, even after an hour of sweat-inducing cardiovascular activity. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 FDA is recommending that a giant, sun-blocking dome be built over the entire country. Funds to build the dome have already been promised by makers of cancer drugs, who stand to receive a windfall of profits once cancer explodes across the population due to universal vitamin D deficiencies.
Dubbed the "Merck dome," the inside of the dome will also display drug advertisements round-the-clock, allowing people to find the name of any drug they need simply by looking towards the sky. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you'd like to move things along a little more quickly, you can also stay out of all sunlight and use plenty of sun block and sunscreen any time you go outside. This will prevent natural sunlight from touching your skin. Now, how will this give you cancer? It turns out that natural sunlight is powerful prevention for cancer. People who get plenty of natural sunlight have a greatly reduced risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer, breast cancer and many other disorders that aren't cancer-related such as osteoporosis and mental depression. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| There's no money in recommending sunlight, even though the creation of vitamin D through sunlight actually drops breast cancer rates by nearly fifty percent.
With good nutrition and avoidance of cancer-causing chemicals, we could eliminate around 90 percent of the cancer in modern nations. Doctors are not taught nutrition in medical school. They actually graduate from medical school as nutritionally ignorant practitioners of medicine. How can you claim to practice medicine when you don't understand the relationship between food and health? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The darker your skin, the more sunlight you need. Read our free report on sunlight and vitamin D for more detailed tips.
2) Never, ever submit to chemotherapy or radiation. These procedures cause severe harm and can ultimately kill you. Seek naturopathic cancer therapies only. Don't submit to mammograms, either, since they actually cause cancer!
3) Don't ever give financial support to prominent cancer non-profits, which are almost universally allied with drug companies and radiology equipment manufacturers.
4) Don't get suckered into visiting an oncologist. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Besides, doctors know that if they start recommending sunlight and vitamin D, they'll lose patients and profits because people will start getting well and have no need to keep visiting the doctor. Vitamin D, as you will learn in our free report, The Healing Power of sunlight and Vitamin D, prevents not only cancer, but also diabetes, osteoporosis, depression, heart disease and obesity. It's the miracle nutrient of the millennium, and yet the entire medical profession tries desperately to pretend that vitamin D has no biological function whatsoever. |
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Be sure to read our free report on this: The Healing Power of sunlight and Vitamin D. This provides tips on how to safely gauge your level of exposure to sunlight. Don't just rush out and get burned; boost your nutrition and work up a natural tan as nature intended.
See the article: Vitamin D slashes cancer risk by 77 percent.
Visit our topic page on Vitamin D.
If you choose to buy sunscreen, only buy natural sunscreen products containing no petrochemicals! One brand I recommend is Caribbean Blue Natural Basics "Sun Shield." You can find more at www.gocaribbeanblue. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Exercise is essential -- it boosts muscle mass, increases metabolism and tells your body to shed fat. sunlight also helps, too. Get more sunlight and your body will drop even more fat.
Finally, you've simply got to stop eating refined sugars, processed carbs and hydrogenated fats. That means no soft drinks, cookies, cake, sweets, white flour, white bread, sugary cereal and other such foods. EVER. Yes, ever.
Let me be blunt: You can either have your cake and be obese, or you can give up the cake and maintain a healthy weight. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The Environmental Working Group, sadly, still does not recognize the healing power of Vitamin D and continues to recommend that people avoid sunlight. This is merely an oversight by the group, not any sort of malicious disinformation conspiracy. The EWG means well, but they remain ignorant of the nutritional impact of vitamin D. They're experts on toxicology, not nutrition, and they still suffer under the illusion that the less sunlight consumers receive on their skin, the healthier they will be (hence the EWG's insistence that sunscreen products with ineffective UV blocking are also "unsafe"). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Given all the information now available on the health benefits of vitamin D and natural sunlight exposure, it is encouraging to learn that 56 percent of readers have now taken steps to experience more sunlight. sunlight is, quite simply, the single most powerful healing therapy available to us. It's available free of charge. It is essentially infinite in duration, and through the creation of vitamin D, it helps prevent and reverse many types of cancer and other chronic diseases, including schizophrenia, depression, osteoporosis and even gum disease. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 I am talking about sunlight in particular. Indoor light is not going to make any difference. You need to expose yourself to bright sunlight?just your eyes. There are artificial sun boxes that are commercially available. But if you have insomnia, get outside as much as you can, during your lunch hour, during your breaks. Don't wear sunglasses, unless you've got an eye condition that requires it."
Exercising in the late afternoon or early evening may help some people with insomnia. "When you do aerobic exercise for half an hour, you raise your body temperature," Dr. Pearl says. |
Andreas Moritz
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 However, unlike cholesterol-lowering drugs, sunlight does no?increase cholesterol in the bile, which is a major cause of gallstones. sunlight has a holistic effect, which means that all functions in the body benefit at the same time. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Both fluorescent and incandescent lighting lack the full spectrum of wavelengths that exist in sunlight. Depriving yourself of natural sunlight has known health consequences, from chaotic circadian rhythms to depression. Circadian rhythms are the patterns of repeated activity associated with cycles of day and night. Our internal rhythms repeat roughly every twenty-four hours, and involve the sleep-wake cycle, the ebb and flow of hormones, the rise and fall of body temperature, and other subtle rhythms that mesh with the twenty-four-hour solar day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Every single one of them is based on one of the following three causes:
Number one: the body (or the mind) doesn't have something it needs, such as nutrition, oxygen, air, sunlight, love, sleep, etc.
Number two: the body (or mind) has too much of something it can't use or is toxic.
Number three: the body (or mind) doesn't have the proper flow, either energetically or physically. This means it cannot remove metabolic waste products, nourish cells with fresh blood, or neurologically respond to a stimulus. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Like rosacea, lupus-related rashes are photosensitive—they can be triggered or worsened by sunlight. But unlike rosacea, these rashes are flat rather than bumpy.
BUTTERFLY RASH OF LUPUS
Dark Patches on Cheeks
If you have dark symmetrical patches covering your cheeks and the bridge of your nose, like a face mask, you have the classic sign of melasma (aka months of stopping these medications or giving birth, the blotches fade. Scaly Patches on the Face
Scaly patches of discolored skin smack in the middle of your face are hard to ignore, and you shouldn't. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 When the spears emerge from the ground, the sunlight turns the stalks green by producing chlorophyll.
What's the Story? •
Asparagus is a member of the lily family. There are approximately three hundred varieties of asparagus of which about twenty are edible. The name asparagus comes from the Greek language meaning "sprout" or
AsparagUS (Asparagaceae) green or white—delight!
"shoot." The most widely known species is the vegetable asparagus, which comes in green, white, and purple colors.
A Serving of Food Lore... |
| Turmeric is used in the production of some packaged goods to protect them from sunlight.
Penne Rigate with Broccoli and Turmeric by Chef Nick Spinelli Servings: 6 • Prep and cooking time: 30 minutes
This recipe contains five powerhouse foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 According to them, sunlight is useless for human health, nutritional supplements have no impact on health, stress reduction through relaxation exercises is some sort of senseless voodoo and eating 100 calories of fresh produce has exactly the same effect on your health as drinking 100 calories of a sugared-up soda (to them, a calorie is a calorie, regardless of its source). Oh yeah, and they also say aspartame and fluoride are completely safe to swallow in unlimited lifetime quantities, with zero negative health effects. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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| The salty seawater and filtered sunlight are thought to be therapeutic for the skin. infertility. Women with this condition often have hirsutism—excess hair on their faces, chests, and other places women normally don't have a lot of hair. (See Chapter 1.) They also are frequently obese and have irregular periods.
Very easy and extensive braising may also be the earliest warning sign of a low blood platelet count—medically known as thrombocytopenia—which can be due to several serious conditions such as leukemia and HIV/AIDS. |
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