| These findings are consistent with findings that cite a lower risk of breast cancer with increased ultraviolet light exposure, which means higher vitamin D levels are protective. Furthermore, researchers find higher activated vitamin D levels in women with less invasive and/or less advanced breast cancer.
With the discovery of breast cancer-associated gene mutations (BRCA1 and BRCA2), which dramatically increase the risk for getting breast cancer, many women thought a cure might be just around the corner. |
| Even so, ultraviolet light does seem to be involved in the cause of most skin cancers.
Recent studies on melanoma, however, complicate the relationship between UV light and melanoma. More than a decade ago, researchers told us that indoor workers were at greater risk of melanoma skin cancer than outdoor workers and that people who worked in jobs that had indoor and outdoor components were at the lowest risk of melanoma. |
| Several factors increase your likelihood of catching an infection in the winter. ultraviolet light in the "B" spectrum inactivates many viruses, so that means that in the summer, viruses don't survive outside your body as long as they do in the winter, when there is less UVB getting through the ozone. D levels begin to fall in the fall. When the leaves start turning colors, the amount of UVB available to make vitamin D is negligible. In Michigan, for example, that's usually mid- or late September. |
| A: The three spectrums of ultraviolet light are A, B, and C. All UVC is absorbed in the ozone. Small amounts of UVB penetrate the ozone, depending on its thickness, the angle of the sun, cloud cover, upper atmospheric changes, and solar activity. The variable that dominates the changes in UVB that pass through the ozone is the angle of the sun relative to you. The UVA spectrum penetrates the ozone year round.
?UVB—You need a modest amount daily or several times a week to make vitamin D.
?UVA—You can't avoid UVA if you go outside because this is the dominant UV light in our atmosphere.
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Andreas Moritz
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 Sunlight has a holistic effect, which means that all functions in the body benefit at the same time. ultraviolet light has been proven to lower blood pressure, facilitate cardiac output, increase glycogen (complex sugar) stores in the liver, balance blood sugar, improve the body's resistance to infections (as shown by an increase in the number of lymphocytes and phagocytes), enhance the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood, and increase the production of sex hormones, along with producing many other health benefits. |
Dawson Church
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 DNA Ckange and Intention
One of the HeartMath experiments used human placental DNA, and determined whether the molecule's helicular coils became more tightly wound or less tightly wound, a characteristic that can be measured by the molecule's absorption of ultraviolet light.
Individuals trained in HeartMath techniques generated feelings of love and appreciation while holding a specific intention to either wind or unwind the DNA in the experimental sample. In some cases, there was a change of 25% in the conformation of the DNA, indicating a large effect. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 He'd been examining benzo[a]pyrene, a polycyclic hydrocarbon known tosbe one of the most lethal carcinogens to humans and had illuminated it with ultraviolet light.
Popp played around with light a lot. He'd been fascinated by the effect of electromagnetic radiation on living systems ever since he'd been a student at the University of Wiirzburg. During his time as an undergraduate he'd studied in the house, sometimes even in the very room, where Wilhelm Rontgen had accidentally stumbled on the fact that rays of a certain frequency could produce pictures of the hard structures of the body. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Ultraviolet disinfection units: These use the power of ultraviolet light to kill bacteria and other microorganisms. Typically found under the sink, they can be combined with a carbon filter and sediment screen. UV units remove bacteria and parasites; class A systems protect against harmful bacteria and viruses, including Cryptosporidium and Giardia, while class B systems are designed to make nondisease-causing bacteria inactive.
It's important that whichever filter you choose, you maintain it well to assure it continues to perform. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 By combining three simple observations -- the sunlight blocking capacity of darkly pigmented skin, ultraviolet light intensity at geographic latitudes, and recent research showing vitamin D's ability to prevent cancer tumors from growing -- Adams has pieced together a powerful, yet obvious explanation for why black men and women experience far more serious cancers than whites. The cancer industry, meanwhile, remains baffled by the difference and claims to not understand why black women experience more severe cancers than white women.
The real explanation for the difference? |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Degradation: easily destroyed by light, especially ultraviolet light. Coenzyme forms: flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), and flavin mononucleotide (FMN).
Summary for Niacin—Vitamin B3
Main function: energy metabolism.
RDA: men, 16 mg; women, 14 mg (niacin equivalent).
No toxicity has been reported from food; flushing has been reported above 35 mg in the nicotinic acid form; no effects have been noted below 2000 mg of niacinamide.
Deficiency disease: pellagra.
Healthy food sources: whole grains and nuts.
Degradation: heat resistant. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It may play an important role in preventing skin cancer, as it can protect the skin from damage from excessive ultraviolet light.
Dietary sources of selenium include wheat germ, seafood such as tuna and salmon, garlic, Brazil nuts, eggs, brown rice, and whole-wheat bread. Brazil nuts are perhaps the best source, and eating just 3-4 Brazil nuts per day provides adequate selenium intake for most people. A good source of raw brazil nuts is www.RawFood. |
Bill Sardi
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 Physiological Chemistry Physics 13: 325-33, 1981]
1982: Hairless mice exposed to ultraviolet light develop skin cancers, but the incidence decreases and onset is delayed when increasing amounts of vitamin C are added to their diet. Dr. Linus Pauling is a co-author of this study. |
Andreas Moritz
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 A study at Boston State Hospital proved that ultraviolet light increases the level of testosterone by 120 percent when the chest or back is exposed to sunlight. The hormone, however, increases by a whooping 200 percent when genital skin is exposed to the sun!
Regular sunbathing increases the strength and size of all muscle groups in the male physique. The combination of sun and exercise is, therefore, ideal to develop a strong and healthy body with optimal reproductive abilities. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Degradation: easily destroyed by light, especially ultraviolet light. Coenzyme forms: Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide
(FAD) and Flavin MonoNucleotide (FMN).
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Synthetic riboflavin used in supplements and fortified foods and drinks is very likely to have been produced using genetically modified Bacillus subtilis. These bacteria have been altered to increase the bacteria's production of riboflavin. The genes of the bacteria may also have been altered by the addition of antibiotic resistance to ampicillin. This is one possible difference between synthetic and naturally-occurring riboflavin. |
| Sunlight and Vitamin D
Vitamin D3, cholecalciferol, is made in the skin when a form of cholesterol (7-dehydrocholesterol) reacts with UVB ultraviolet light with wavelengths between 290 and 315 nanometers, as seen in Figure 4-1. Since UVB is absorbed by the atmosphere, more vitamin D is made when the sun is high. Fifteen minutes of summer sun in a bathing suit makes an average of 20,000 IU of vitamin D— 100 times the adequate daily intake. Since vitamin D is stored for long periods, this may be enough vitamin D to last for 100 days. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Ultraviolet Light Tanning Dependent (UVLTD)
This disease results in an addiction to ultraviolet light, causing victims to repeatedly sunbathe with the same zeal as crack addicts searching for their next fix. UVLTD sufferers feel an obsessive need for sunlight and cannot function without it. Some have even been known to capture sunlight in a syringe and shoot up on the beach. (Did you get this one? According to some in organized medicine, this is a real disease! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This pigmentation blocks more sunlight to avoid overexposure, but still allows some ultraviolet light into the skin so the organism, the human being, can generate vitamin D, thus preventing chronic disease.
Fair- or white-skinned people lived in northern climates, where sunlight exposure is a fraction of that at the equator. Thus, they did not need the ultraviolet protection of dark skin pigmentation; they needed lighter skin that lets in more ultraviolet light and enables them to produce more vitamin D.
The exception to this is people who lived in Alaska and other northern climates. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Researchers went on to learn that ultraviolet light could activate vitamin D. By 1925 it was suspected that a cholesterol derivative in skin was activated by sunlight. In 1931 vitamin D2 was synthesized, and the structure of vitamin D was established by 1936.
The Forms of Vitamin D
Vitamin D is found in four forms. Cholecalciferol is made by skin when the skin is exposed to direct sunlight containing the B form of ultraviolet radiation (UVB). Cholecalciferol is also called Vitamin D3. It is the form used in many supplements and is sometimes used in food fortification. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 The darker your skin, the less ultraviolet light you absorb.
Skin color is determined by the amount and type of melanin, a specialized pigment that absorbs light, produced by our bodies. Melanin comes in two forms—red or yellow pheomelanin, or brown or black eumelanin—and is manufactured by cells called melanocytes. Everybody on earth has around the same number of melanocytes—differences in skin color depend, first, on how productive these little melanin factories are and, second, on what type of melanin they make. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 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. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| And as we said, ultraviolet light destroys folic acid in the body. In the mid-1990s an Argentinian pediatrician reported that three healthy women all gave birth to children who had neural tube defects after using indoor tanning beds during their pregnancies. Coincidence? Probably not.
Pregnancy isn't the only time folate is important, of course. A lack of folate is also directly linked to anemia, because folate helps to produce red blood cells. the skin, as you've probably heard, is the largest organ of the human body. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 It repels toxins, microbes and viruses, ultraviolet light and other forms of radiation, chemical and physical threats, and the like. As an organ, your skin is active metabolically; for instance it is instrumental in vitamin D absorption. It is also a major sensory organ, linking you to the environment, and so bioenergetically it has a strong connection to Earth's Big Field. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 However, both clothing and use of a sunscreen prevent the ultraviolet light that triggers the formation of vitamin D from reaching the skin. Depending on latitude, sunlight during the winter may not provide enough ultraviolet light to promote adequate vitamin D production. At other times during the year, even 30 minutes of exposure per day will usually lead to large increases in the amount of vitamin D made. If it is difficult to get sunlight exposute, full-spectrum lighting can be used to stimulate vitamin D production. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Darker skin pigmentation, you see, blocks ultraviolet light absorption which generates vitamin D in the skin. Since vitamin D is a substance that halts the growth of cancer tumors when circulating in the blood, it's not at all complex to understand why vitamin D deficiency in black women would result in higher breast cancer mortality.
This stuff is so simple to understand that I recently explained it to an eight grader who wrote it up for a school report. |
Bryan Hanson, PhD
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 The spots are visualized with ultraviolet light or other means. pounds. In column chromatography, mobile phase keeps flowing, and the molecules being analyzed eventually reach the end of the column and drip out with the solvent. This mobile phase, and any compounds it contains, is collected in a series of test tubes as it drips out. These are called fractions. Thus, column chromatography is really a temporal separation, because the different components reach the end of the column at different times (see Figure 5.6). |
| The most common technique is to view the plate under ultraviolet light; most compounds will show up as dark spots.
TLC is great as a qualitative analysis method, used to get some idea of how many compounds are in a sample. If you are expecting something to be relatively pure, then you would expect to see one major spot on the plate, perhaps along with some minor spots. If you were analyzing a herb capsule, as mentioned earlier, and had a sample of authentic ingredient to use as a standard, then you could run your standard on the plate next to the material being tested. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 Titanium dioxide is a fine, white powder used in sunscreens because of its ability to reflect and scatter ultraviolet light. The compound's full effects on human health are still under investigation. The U.S. government's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) labels the chemical "a potential occupational carcinogen."
While we all actually need to get out in the sun to produce vitamin D and remain healthy, we don't need too much at one time as this can be harmful. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 NF-KB is present in many of the cells of the body, but most important, in the immunological defense systems, particularly in monocytes, macrophages, B cells, and T cells. ultraviolet light, gamma radiation, x-rays, low oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, and oxidized lipids can cause an activation of the NF-KB factor.4
Small lipophilic molecules, such as part of the Vitamin A structure and steroids, exert different synergistic effects during the development of organisms, cellular differentiation, and what is known as homeostasis in the adult phase. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 Antioxidants such as vitamins C and E, selenium, and carotenoids are of particular impor-rance, since rhey can inhibit the damaging effects of oxygen and ultraviolet light on the retina. In addition, nutrients such as zinc, taurine, and certain plant-derived flavonoids play an important role in the normal metabolism of retinal tissue. Since nutrients work in the body as a team, it is likely that a combination of nutrients would perform better than any single nutrient by itself. |
| Antioxidants
(vitamins C and E, selenium)
One of the causes of progressive retinal deterioration is a lifetime of bombardment by tissue-damaging oxygen free radicals and ultraviolet light. Because the eye is highly susceptible to this type of injury, antioxidant nutrients are especially important for maintaining eye health. For example, vitamin C is naturally present in high concentrations in the eye, and it has been shown to prevent retinal damage in animals that are exposed to excessive amounts of light.8
Vitamin E is another key antioxidant for the retina. |
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