Sensible sunlight exposure prevents skin cancer; findings baffle old school doctors

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source:http://www.newstarget.com/007632.html

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Scientists are baffled by the results of a study published in the Feb. 2,

2005 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. In this study,

we learn that exposure to sunlight actually reduces the risk of skin cancer.

 

 

This is important evidence backing up what doctors like Dr. Michael Holick,

author of " The UV Advantage, " have been saying for years: Sunlight is

actually good for you. In fact, the risk of many cancers increases when you

do not have sufficient exposure to sunlight.

 

It's remarkable just how baffled the scientists really are with the results

of the study. They can't believe everything they've been told all these

years could somehow be false. Remember, the conventional medical community

has been taught that sunlight is bad for you. You must cover up your skin,

wear sunscreen and avoid any sunlight exposure at all if you want to be

healthy, they've said. This is the line of propaganda pushed by the

sunscreen industry, and of course the dermatology industry, which has been

largely funded by the sunscreen manufacturers. They've been telling people

sunlight causes cancer, and you must avoid the sun at all costs.

 

That's all hogwash. As I've been saying on this site for quite some time,

the human body was designed to live in harmony with sunlight. We evolved

under natural sunlight, not under fluorescent lights with a lifetime supply

of sunscreen on the shelf. We need sunlight in order to be healthy. I've

covered this in dozens of other articles on this site. Now we have

additional evidence backing up that notion, and it may finally begin to turn

the tide and help doctors and researchers realize they need to stop telling

people to avoid sunlight and start telling people to get more sunlight.

 

Of course it's all about sensible exposure, which is determined by the

pigmentation in your skin. The darker your skin, the more sunlight you need

in order to generate vitamin D. 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?

 

You see, milk doesn't really have much vitamin D in it, especially if it's

offered in those typical translucent containers, because light destroys the

vitamin D content. Also, this whole line of thinking by conventional

medicine misses the point that there may be other characteristics of

sunlight that encourage human health aside from just vitamin D. In other

words, there's a lot more going on here.

 

There is probably a phototherapy effect that goes well beyond the

biochemistry of vitamin D production. 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. So they start out with a vitamin D deficiency due to

lack of sunlight, and they end up with a calcium deficiency even though

they're taking lots of calcium supplements. The end result is, of course,

osteoporosis or osteomalacia, the advanced stage of osteoporosis. Once

that's diagnosed by conventional medicine, they're usually given hormone

replacement therapy or a variety of prescription drugs rather than simply

being told to get more sunlight and engage in some form of physical exercise

to enhance bone mineral density.)

 

In the UK, doctors have already been told they're doing a disservice to

patients if they tell them to avoid sunlight. 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. Here we're seeing yet another example of how nature actually

prevents and even reverses cancer in the human body.

 

It is not an exaggeration to say sunlight and vitamin D can prevent and even

reverse cancers in the human body. We're talking about prostate cancer,

breast cancer, cervical cancer and now, skin cancers as well. In fact, there

seems to be a systemic anti-cancer effect provided by sunlight exposure and

vitamin D. If you haven't already, be sure to read the free report available

for downloading at http://www.truthpublishing.com. It's an interview with

Dr. Michael Holick on this very topic. It's a fascinating read. That

interview was conducted before this new study was published, but I'm sure

this study is bringing a smile to Dr. 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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