The Sunshine Vitamin Repairs Your Skin and Boosts Your Immune System

re: The Sunshine Vitamin Repairs Your Skin and Boosts Your Immune System

websam — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:54:40 GMT

I have a question: for years before knowing about natural health I always believed the sun to be evil to our skin due to marketing of those products. My mother used to go to tanning beds and gets patches of cancer or pre-cancerous cells on her skin. She protects her skin from the sun now, and doesn't tan anymore, but what about daily UV protection that is in many facial products, and how do you know what is safe and what is damaging to the skin?

re: The Sunshine Vitamin Repairs Your Skin and Boosts Your Immune System

sjr — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:35:50 GMT

Dr. Mercola,
I am very dissapointed in your article on the sunshine vitamin. As a Dermatology PA I spend a great deal of time disuading the youth of my community on tanning and the use of tanning beds. I feel it is very irresponsible to suggest that there is anything remotely close to a safe tanning bed. In my work I also spend a great deal of time removing skin cancers of patients both young and old. Just last week 4 malignant melanomas alone. Too much sunlight will change the DNA componant of the skin. This is not a disputed fact. Some teenager will read your article and somehow determine that tanning beds are safe and spend hours in a bed ruining their skin. Not to mention prematurely aging.

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healthly lady — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:43:11 GMT

Hi Dr Mercola I am reading your comments and I am worring about the vitamin D in the skin.. I have little bumps on my arms. my dr said that they were sun spot ? so if that is .... then how do I help my skin from the sun it is hard to ware long shevel blouses.... when they came in they hurt and itchses, they are a brown color like a feckal bump.. Ican't drink milk so I take calcium pills with D in it ....

I have been drinking a lot of canberry juice so I can help my kidneys stay clean... does that help?

re: The Sunshine Vitamin Repairs Your Skin and Boosts Your Immune System

enzo — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:30:21 GMT

If you are not vitamin deficient, (especially A,E, C, B-complex,D,Biotin, and Folic Acid), you will not readily experience sun burn. I heavily supplement my whole food organic diet, and no longer experience sunburn.

I am fair skinned and as a builder am outdoors a great deal in the sun. Prior to my diet change and supplementation, I used to burn quite easily and had to cover up exposed skin. No longer do I have this problem, and I have not used sunscreen for three years.

re: The Sunshine Vitamin Repairs Your Skin and Boosts Your Immune System

Phantom O Banjo — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:52:06 GMT

What are the signs of to much vitamin D to small shorts pressing on a nerve causing headaches? :)

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mmc88121 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:07:05 GMT

It is a good thing animals can't read. Most wild animals will try to get as much sunshine as they can even in winter. Have you ever noticed on nice sunny winter day a lot of animals are out just enjoying the sunshine.

mmc88121

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Josh Rubin — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:56:12 GMT

Among other things, sun stimulates serotonin in the brain. That is why you see so many people with SAD back east or in other states/countries were there is little light or lots of rain. I live in San Diego California and have not heard much about SAD since moving here. I grew up in Boston Mass and you heard about SAD all the time.

Sunshine is a key component of the makings and workings of serotonin in the brain. But little do we know, most of the serotonin that is found in the body is actually found in the gut!

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Russ Bianchi — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:25:10 GMT

"But this is no good!?" one can hear the murmurs in the halls of profit driven companies trying to hype Vitamin D foods, beverages, dietary supplementation, cosmetics, or pharmaceutical products, "how to we make money trying to meter the SUN? It's not our model!"

"Quick, somebody call the energy mega giants, they've been bamboozling the public for over a century!"

"Let's just hope no one is paying attention to Dr. Mercola's empirically based web site, and instead listening only to the man behind the curtain, and/or the ALL POWERFUL OZ".