Health & Wellness
I am a great fan of sunlight exposure, to both the skin and the eyes. We have been brainwashed into believing that the sun is toxic, whereas, in fact, it is life-giving. People who live in places with little sun have statistically higher risk of many chronic conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, autism, Alzheimer's disease, and age-related macular degeneration. Sunlight exposure protects from many different types of cancer.
The facts behind sunlight and vitamin D
The story is not that simple, however.
In a paper published in 2016, Richard Weller wrote: "A substantial body of evidence shows that sunlight has health benefits and that these are independent of vitamin D and thus cannot be reproduced by oral supplementation." [1]
Sunlight and Water
Those who are familiar with my research will know that I believe that humans are able to exploit the energy in sunlight by oxidizing hydrogen sulfide to make sulfate. [2]
Sulfate lining blood vessels promotes the growth of "exclusion zone" water-a gelled form of water that protects the wall of the blood vessel from exposure to damaging substances in the blood, and also creates a battery to capture the energy in the sunlight. The gel forms a slick surface to allow red blood cells to easily slide through the capillaries. Sunlight, but, most especially, infrared light, causes the exclusion zone water layer to expand dramatically, by as much as a factor of four. [3] The electricity held in the battery grows in direct correspondence.
Prof. Gerald Pollack from the University of Washington in Seattle has popularized much of this story in his book, Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life.
Sunscreen and Melanin
Most Americans heavily rely on sunscreen for sun protection if they are planning to be outside for an extended period. They strongly believe that they are protecting themselves from skin cancer through this practice, but, in fact, they may be increasing their risk to skin cancer.
In fact, sunscreen interferes with the body's natural mechanisms of sun protection, which have been perfected over hundreds of millions of years of life's evolution on earth.
Given how much advertising we get urging us to use sunscreen, people probably assume that there is plenty of evidence that sunscreen protects from skin cancer. If this is true, then it is hard to explain why melanoma prevalence has been steadily rising in step with the rise in the use of higher and higher sun-protection-factor (SPF) sunscreens over the past two decades.
Sunscreen disrupts the body's natural mechanism of sun protection: melanin synthesis. Sunscreen protection only lasts while the sunscreen is topically present. Melanin, produced in response to sunlight exposure, on the other hand, builds up over time and eventually produces a healthy tan with protection that can last for weeks or even months.
The powerful antioxidant effects of melanin protect you from the UV rays, while you can still enjoy the many health benefits of visible light and infrared light.
Sunscreen also contains toxic ingredients that cause damage to the skin in ways that might result in sustained disruption of sulfate synthesis.
Particularly disturbing is the aluminum that is added to emulsify the zinc oxide and titanium dioxide additives (the active ingredients).
Sunlight is protective against at least four distinct diseases and conditions: cancer, heart disease, hypertension, and bone fractures. In each case, studies have shown that vitamin D supplements cannot replace these benefits of sunlight. Sunlight and vitamin D each play a role in our health.
References
[1] RB Weller. Sunlight Has Cardiovascular Benefits Independently of
Vitamin D. Blood Purification 2016; 41: 130-134.
[2] S. Seneff et al. Is Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase a Moonlighting
Protein Whose Day Job is Cholesterol Sulfate Synthesis? Implications for
Cholesterol Transport, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease. Entropy
2012; 14: 2492-2530.
[3] Binghua Chai et al. Effect of Radiant Energy on Near-Surface Water.
J Phys Chem B 2009; 113(42): 13953-13958.
Reader Comments
Most of my kids take care to use only natural organic products (which cost more) but it is still possible it blocks the suns function and thus cancers may result. Time will tell.
YOU are obsessed with hatred and ignorant. JUMP n dump!!
Besides which, you failed to answer my question.
What's so natural and pro-life about drinking swimming pool bleach?
Eh?
(i.e. LindaMay)YOU ASSHOLE, STOP TRASHING PEOPLE
and if you won't do that then
FUCK OFF
FUCK. OFF.
Highland Fleet LuteIf you're quite happy for LindaMay to be pushing this garbage at SOTT readers and actually guzzling this stuff herself, what does that say about you?(i.e. LindaMay)YOU ASSHOLE, STOP TRASHING PEOPLE
and if you won't do that then
FUCK OFF
What's so natural and pro-life about drinking swimming pool bleach, LindaMay?Fair point.
loot... you really do need to get a grip youngin. IT IS SO obvious that I KNOW SO MUCH MORE THAN YOU about MMS.Was pretty rude.
YOU are obsessed with hatred and ignorant. JUMP n dump!!
Shame you can't/won't read.Was rude, and was NOT preceded by any rudeness towards you. So, you started it. So stop it.
Maybe you think reading is 'unnatural' too
Such is the state of modern life that very often, if you throw a drowning man a rope, he'll think you're trying to hang him, and then he ends up hanging himself.
Attempting to turn not being able to read into a virtue isn't one of them.
Neither is attempting to turn literacy into a vice.
It's interesting how SOTT rails against this kind of thing in the outer world to the nth degree, but in their own back yard it's 'anything for a quiet life'.
It's interesting how SOTT rails against this kind of thing in the outer world to the nth degree, but in their own back yard it's 'anything for a quiet life'.Yes, 'the outer world' can be slapped upside the head with insulting or snide comments, but basic hospitality rules we can't do that to each other in person.
Why don't you admit that your eye is not on the ball viz. the comments section on SOTT and that you have some degree of responsibility as to why certain parties on The Cassiopaea Forum rudely, snidely, but somewhat correctly refer to this part of your enterprise as 'the swamp'.
Yes, 'the outer world' can be slapped upside the head with insulting or snide comments, but basic hospitality rules we can't do that to each other in person.According to your own actions/inactions, that presumably doesn't cover the behaviour of a person here of dubious construction whose initial engagement with me consisted of calling me everything under the sun and telling me to fuck off in bold capitals, but it would cover me offering my sweet innocent christian cheek in return, did I get that right?
Is vitamin D a vitamin or is it a hormone? Make your bloody minds up.
I've always got a lot of charge from lolling about on Greek beaches.
I'll use a bit of coconut oil, but in general I can take a large amount of sun, which is weird considering I'm a blonde blue-eyed person.
My brother, on the other hand, who's a dark-haired hazel person can't take any amount of it without looking like he just fell out of a lobster pot.
You'd think it would be the other way around.
Nobody really quite knows how light behaves . I mean, they know some things, but not everything. As Gerald Pollack pointed out, IR is everywhere. In the middle of the night you can pick it up from your fridge, your furniture, your floorboards, walls and ceilings.
Jack Kruse's 'optimum equatorial light' theory is obviously a bunch of tosh, or it would be reflected in intelligence, health and longevity statistics, which it is not. People in Norway and Sweden don't fare particularly worse in those departments than people in Ecuador or wherever. Although there are some things that do tally. Depression and suicide, that kind of thing, but then again, that's probably complex.
It's interesting that a disproportionate amount of 19th and 20th century genius technological advances originated from Scotland, where ultraviolet light is sometimes referred to as 'kryptonite'. LOL.
Is vitamin D a vitamin or is it a hormone? Make your bloody minds up.That term, as I remember, was coined in the early 20th century, when they started to investigate the metabolism a bit deeper. "Vita" is supposed to express it is vital, or essential. "Vitamins" is just a wild bunch of different chemicals they found to be required.
Unfortunately for vegans, vitamin D is a hormone, only produced in animals. Herbal homologues and isomeres don't do the trick.
My brother, on the other hand, who's a dark-haired hazel person can't take any amount of it without looking like he just fell out of a lobster potInteresting. Perhaps related to nutrition ?
I hardly got any sunburn this year either. I had been ash blond as kid, but the hair became darker in my teens.
But I started to get out daily already in March, exploiting the lockdown spare time. The lower solar altitude in spring might prevent sunburns, and I thus had already plenty of melatonine in june. Just my theory.
"Vitamins" is just a wild bunch of different chemicals they found to be required.Well, yeah. Much as there's a wild bunch of different stuff coming out of the sun along with so-called IR and so-called UV.
That's what scientists do. They take measurements and give names.
Some of it works out.
Interesting. Perhaps related to nutrition ?That's a possibility, along with a number of other possibilities.
That's what scientists do. They take measurements and give names.I don't blame them, quite the opposite. Considering the technology available at that time, they were quite smart to figure which substances werre essential for a human, and do some basic identification from the tiny samples they got from humans. Some even did extremely bizarre and unethical (self-) experiments, like Vihjalmur Stefansson ...
Some of it works out.
Stefansson is also a figure of considerable interest in dietary circles, especially those with an interest in a very low-carbohydrate diet. Stefansson documented the fact that the Inuit diet was then consisted about 90% meat and fish. Inuit would often go 6 to 9 months a year eating nothing but meat and fish, which might now be perceived to be a 'zero carb' / no-carbohydrate diet. (The diet technically contains a very low amount of carbohydates, as the fresh fish that the Inuit ate would have had a small amount of glycogen.) He found that he and his fellow explorers of European, Black, and South Sea Islands descent were also perfectly healthy on such a diet.
But as far as I know, the Eskimo (Inuit ?!?!) diet consists of about two third fat, and only one third protein.
But of that famous Bellevue hospital experiment perhaps, involving his chap named Anderson.Oh, I'll have a look at that.
While I think most of the stuff re: ancestral diets etc, is right, I'm loathe to take on that whole 'natural' thing as an ideological certainty, because....
A) There's no proof that our ancestors originated on Earth, so screw all that 'Mother Earth' nonsense.
B) Much of the flora on this planet is toxic to humans, as are many Earth environments.
C) My body is well adapted to artificial substances like ascorbic acid and Lugol's iodine.
Which is not to say everything synthetic is great. Most synthetic things are far from great.
Definitely wouldn't use sun screen, f'rinstance.
A) There's no proof that our ancestors originated on Earth, so screw all that 'Mother Earth' nonsense.But at least they seem to have lived here for dozens or hundreds of millennia. And all the paleolithic evidence suggest a mainly meat-based diet, more so than famous predators like bears, wolves, or hyenas.
And documented evidence from the very recent past proves that one can thrive even under extreme (arctic) conditions with a mostly carnivore diet. Without spinach smoothies ...
But honestly, do your own research, and go with what works for you. Many nutrition "advice" nowadays comes with an agenda, or from clueless people educated in schools with an agenda.
I use to stay away from those where the most money is involved - being it directy (factory-made "food") or indirectly ("food" for the pharma industry).
... on cholesterol on the skin.Vegans usually get zero cholesterol with their diet.
Lierre Keith on 'The Vegetarian Myth - Food, Justice and Sustainability'
We've been told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in The...codis I am living proof that on a totally vegan diet with zero supplements and regular sunbathing my Vit D levels increased from very low up to 67 out of 80 - very satisfactory. The human body makes Vit D by the sun’s action on cholesterol on the skin. No carnivore menu necessary.Another one averse to answering straight questions.
Where are you going to get cholesterol on a vegan diet?
Not surprisingly, high performance athletes don't last long with a vegan diet - like Tim Schieff, and some MMA fighters or bodybuilders for example. And because of the lack of cholesterol and bioavailable vitamins, cartilage and ligaments degrade quickly, and injuries take endless to heal. Hundreds of episodic stories ...
The ones who are unable to break free from this wrecklessly stupid idea that adopting a completely unheard of, totally unnatural, 21st century fantasy anti-diet that even lower primates would turn their noses up at, is somehow good for them, good for the animals, good for the planet, etc, are doomed. And there ain't no coming back from doomed.
The ones who are unable to break free from this wrecklessly stupid idea that adopting a completely unheard of, totally unnatural, 21st century fantasy anti-diet that even lower primates would turn their noses up at, is somehow good for them, good for the animals, good for the planet, etc, are doomed. And there ain't no coming back from doomed.There are interesting videos out about those guys (and girls), especially as reaction to "What I eat in a day".
Funny thing is, most of them eat meat/dairy replacements and look-alikes all day long. And never have a second thought ...
Not only do they not understand the abysmal quality of epidemiological studies. Many authors of sponsored clinical studies even twist and bent enough to come to conclusion totally contrary to the data collected and presented.
And of course, there are also the air-swallowing berry eaters...
Learn something today
Oct 20, 2020 - The overall energy rating is 2. It's going to be a rocky day, but you have the goods to be aware of your part in the process!
There is plenty to process on an emotional scale at this time. Make sure you are honoring your time and giving yourself plenty of space to stretch out.
The waxing crescent moon cycles through the generous sign of Sagittarius until late this evening. This can mean that people aren’t honoring their boundaries and overlapping with your auric field throughout the day.
Although the lunar vibes make it easier to let things bounce off you, there is a darker element to this as well. This can especially be true with certain family members, such as siblings or even neighbors, as Mercury's retrograde through the detective sign of Scorpio is kicking up past arguments left and right. You must honor yourself and let the toxic connections take care of themselves. For those who are in family disputes, this is a really good time to armor up on a psychological scale and be very honest with yourself about your personal space and needs.
The presence of Mercury in Scorpio opposing Uranus in Taurus has not cleared from the skies, and it does add dramatic undertones to people's unconscious behaviors. Let someone show you who they are even if it really hurts to see it. This is a spiritual lesson, and it can even mean you’re feeling a telepathic connection to someone at this time. It doesn't mean they’re not violating your need for space either, and this can go both ways. Be very mindful of this because your mind is going through a process of merging right now.
Now go eat. Honey
If you're quite happy for LindaMay to be pushing this garbage at SOTT readers and actually guzzling this stuff herself, what does that say about you?
You really do need une pipe.
MMS: Miracle Mineral Solution or Trojan Horse? Your Body and DNA Decide
This article was first published in The Dot Connector Magazine, a new Sott.net publication. The Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) is marketed feverishly as a miraculous alternative treatment for...If someone is pushing that nature/natural number and slagging off people for wearing sunscreen.
So it is clear who is Pro-Life and NOT.And that same person is drinking swimming pool bleach every day of the week, it deserves counter comment, whether you choose to scweem and scweem and throw crap out of your pram or not.
Do you think you've been constructive?
Do you think LindaMay has been constructive?
Do you think Joyly has been constructive?
Clearly, you're no fan of nature.
Neither is LindaMay.
Neither is Joyly.
You are a self-centered waste of our time.
Maybe you've noticed, EIGHT MONTHS IN, that things ain't quite right in the world anymore -- worldwide -- and what are you doing but trying belittle people who just might be of real assistance when the shit really hits fan once this 'pre-game warmup' is over and all the little closet tyrants properly out themselves.
You think you'll be somehow immune ? That some magic salvific with descend from the heavens to protect your little fake-a-loo, hate-on-all-and-sundry, two-bit, penny-ante little fantasy world. Pfff . . .
And with that I'm done, and really I'm not that bright, we've been thru this same shit before, I've said the same things before, wasted the same sort of precious time and energy before and seen you go on like you do before.
So I'm gonna go and OD on ginko and leave to you to enjoy your little hard-walled reverb room, your little echo chamber, all by your little old self.
Just another one of your standard tantrums and tiaras routines you've probably been pulling since you were six years old. Who knows? Maybe it worked on your parents. If so, poor parents.
What I do know is: Some guy who dresses up in ladies bra and panties, gurgles down debilitating and unnatural synthetic hormones, then chops his dick off and feeds it to the dog, then wails to the world that he's a woman trapped in a man's body is obviously not a fan of nature.
Someone who slurps down debilitating and unnatural swimming pool bleach with the result that her guts and brains are so far gone she's unable to read one full article on SOTT and the only way she can negotiate her way through life is by consulting Mystic Meg girlie horoscope sites, is obviously not a fan of nature.
Someone who adopts a completely debilitating and unnatural anti-diet and consistently indulges in a lot of God-talk whilst doing the devil's work by proselytising for said unnnatural and debilitating anti-diet, is obviously not a fan of nature.
Good Optics That wasn't very constructive.
THAT wasn't very constructive.
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"MMS" is basically hpochlorite, usually calcium hypochlorite, Ca(ClO)2. In solution, this stuff dissociates to chlorine dioxide (ClO2), which used as bleach and disinfectant. Because it is toxic and kills everything living. In solution, it is also sold (with some additive to cover up the characteristic stench) as an agent to remove recalcitrant mold (fungi).
At most it works as a non-specific broadband antibiotic. I can see no point in killing my gut flora daily.
The wonder of fermented foods. In a swimming pool bleach dressing.
Durrrrrrrrrr.
You are a self-centered waste of our time.
..... codis there is more truth to uncover, you do very well, however
Especially with keeping out of debates that got emotional ..I've been here since the beginning, 20 or so years ago and the only times I can recall things having become ugly are when HFL has attacked someone, with LM seeming to be his favourite target.
About a year ago we had a long-running, particularly ugly 'thread' at about the end which Joe advised HFL that he either cease and desist or be removed.
Since then HFL has kept his head down but lately took an unprovoked swing at Nedlud, only to follow on with more attacks directed at LM, and lately at Joyly and someone else.
And now, in the middle of by far the most serious attacks on humankind in any history of which we're aware he seems to think it important to get into some recidivism, to get back to his old tricks.
Personally speaking: while HFL's stories are sometimes interesting and/or entertaining, I find his seeming root attitudes destructive to an extreme. To me, his points of view seem black/white absolutist whereas the matters upon which he stridently proclaims are far better dealt with from a contextualist vantage.
A present matter seems to be the validity of MMS-whatever and there I think the stuff is best avoided and have often said so over the years but never in any context where I set about trashing a person for their beliefs.
My opinion is that SOTT would be the better without him.
Did you dress up in a twin-set and pearls to write it?
I find his seeming root attitudes destructive to an extreme.Cutting your own dick off and flushing it down the toilet is destructive to an extreme.
Drinking swimming pool bleach is destructive to an extreme.
Going vegan is destructive to an extreme.
COVID is a fraud; so is Trump, so is Biden - COVID: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Eat whatever works for you... everything in moderation. Don't forget to eat your vegetables though, just be careful to nibble around the wheelchairs.
nibble around wheelchairs
GOOD just to clear up any confusion, as i have written many times over the years regarding MMS... MMS is not a belief of mine it is an actual repetitive experience of mine and my family members including children babies and pets. DOSAGE is VIP and ingesting or teethbrushing are the possible processes, both of which we have done.
I dont eat SauerKraut,
1. it doesnt work for my bloodtype, nor
2. do i eat SALT since February/March nor,
3. do i need to clean myself out.
Nor have I used MMS in atleast 2 years.
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Any who care to read his sanctimonious screeds are of course welcome to do so, encouraged even because to the thoughtful thinker he perfectly and repeatedly makes my points.
Humankind is in war for its rights and freedoms and it's abundantly apparent to all but most deeply hypnotized that The Haters have in mind for us a future that can accurately be called Meta-Orwellian, one the Cs advised of at least 15 years ago yet HFL thinks only of himself and one-track-minded to a fault, continues to attack others from his bogus, black-white, absolutist vantage(s).
Trace back your steps.
You're the one who burst into the room with your handbag and slingbacks flying, as per usual.
I wasn't even talking to you.
Please mind your own business in future.
Me pointing out that someone who drinks swimming pool bleach and who then goes onto declare anyone that anyone who uses sun cream is anti-nature, anti-life, blah blah is full of it, is natural.
But then again, you wouldn't understand that 'cause there's nothing natural about you at all.
About a year ago I watched HFL try to literally destroy her by repeated vitrolic attacks; in short, he was an asshole.
So, if/when I see anything that looks like him going after LM again and after being previously moderator-warned about anyl such behaviour, I simply wade in swinging and no apologies.
Below is exactly where we are, and our local Hater wants to start in on LM over nothing:
We are human beings, and f or the moment , we have the opportunity to remain free — that is, if we tirelessly advocate for our rights and resist at every turn attempts by the government to place us in chains.
The Founders understood that our freedoms do not flow from the government. They were not given to us only to be taken away by the will of the State. They are inherently ours. In the same way, the government's appointed purpose is not to threaten or undermine our freedoms, but to safeguard them.
Until we can get back to this way of thinking, until we can remind our fellow Americans what it really means to be free , and until we can stand firm in the face of threats to our freedoms, we will continue to be treated like slaves in thrall to a bureaucratic police state run by political psychopaths -- John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute Oct 21, 2020
I appreciated when RC intercepted on my behalf and beseeched him to desist. I appreciated you coming to LM’s defence. Because no one should have to face the bully alone. An attack on any one of us is an attack on us all.
An attack on any one of us is an attack on us all.Exactly . . . and it's from that position I walked in swinging.
You can contact the SOTT Editors here sott@sott.net
Transvestites, vegans, and swimming pool bleach drinkers.
Don't they read the articles?
I cannot answer for anyone else but I will defend their right to make their own choices for their own reason. It is called free will and I cannot expect to have my free will unless I honour others free will choices.
I enjoy discussing issues with people who have different views because I am curious and interested in why people do what they do. I would never attack someone for their views and I will not tolerate being attacked.
Opps, replied to wrong post. This is in reply to your asking what is SOTT's position, go back up pls.
Highland Fleet Lute All the anti vegan articles in the world will not convince me to change my belief that God does not want me to kill the animals.What does God want you to do? Poison yourself with toxic vegetable oils, oxalates and fibrous vegetational garbage that even sheep won't eat?
Joyly See below: HFL started in on people, those same people got in his face and now, what ?, his self-defensive reactions are all those same peoples' fault. Who else do we know anything about who runs similar, if not identical gambits ?I get the sense that the agora is not particularly interested in the rantings, ravings and hashenfrashenrashenfrashens of deranged octagenerian transvestites, Good Optics.
As Pluto is moving into Uranus, there will be a grand cosmo-galactic phase shift, everyone will wake up, and you will meet a tall dark stranger.
Oh grow up.
LOL.
I also LOVE that fox always SMILE
Joyly & LM: The best thing to do is to completely and permanently ignore HFL.And whatever you do, don't read anything!!!!
Present Moment Living O-O
Put on an LP and dance!
Sweet Dreams honeybunny🐇🐇🐇🐇🐿
Placebo group (Group 1) stayed inside, got no sun nor supplements.R.C.
Group 2 got 50 mcg daily of Vitamin D. ROA: Rec.
Group 3 received 6 hours daily of Florida summer sun on perineum.
Results: Group 1 had no problems.
Group 2: Each had sore bumholes.
Group 3: Each committed suicide on the second day.
vitamin d is but one aspect of countless sunlight benefits.