Sunshine Improves Athletic Performance

re: Sunshine Improves Athletic Performance

Nat — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:43:35 GMT

The effects of a lack of sunlight are well documented. It wasn't that long ago that "Sunlight Therapy" was used to cure a variety of problems. Most valuable research was done long ago and most of the research done today is commercially biased. Researchers today inevitably find exactly what they set out to find, strangely enough.
Anybody that believes that sunlight causes skin cancer should contact me, as I have a bridge for sale.
More and more skin cancers are found on parts of the body not exposed to sunlight and on people that don't spend time in the sun. These people do, though, use sunscreens. Light from the sun is one of the four factors essential to our survival - food, water and oxygen being the others. That's why full spectrum lighting is so important.

re: Sunshine Improves Athletic Performance

artlagrange — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:38:45 GMT

"Drug companies can't sell it, doctors can't prescribe it and federal agencies can't regulate it."

think again
So they sell the scare of skin cancer, and "prevention" in sunscreen.

Art LaGrange

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Josh Rubin — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:36:47 GMT

We all have opinions and that is all they are in life. There is so much research provening one thing, but then you have more research that says the opposite. As well, you have some practitioners for example that get great results with clients doing one thing and another who totally is against it and uses other techniques. There is no such thing as right or wrong. There is only what works best for you!

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Josh Rubin — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:36:45 GMT

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PPARGammaGirl — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:01:12 GMT

Australasians have been whipped into paranoid hysteria because of that nasty old hole in the ozone layer. Public awareness campaigns of the evils of sunshine screen constantly. Suncream sales from the Cancer Society have made one individual a millionaire (!!). I know people who absolutely refuse to venture across a sunbeam.

So I say:

When you are only 60, lying in that grotty rest-home bed, with a hip fracture that won’t heal thanks to your use of Fosamax, which prevents normal bone resorption, and your statins that further depleted your vitamin D and gave you bowel cancer, and you get a UTI and chest infection from the restriction of being confined to bed without decent care that would have prevented it, which makes you confused, and they give you antibiotics for the infections, which gives you diarrhoea, which adds to your agitation and confusion, and they give you haloperidol because you are ranting, which gives you a Parkinson’s type reaction and a Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (all your skin falls off and you go blind) you can congratulate yourself and say:

“WELL AT LEAST I DIDN’T GET MELANOMA!”
p.s. this is no fairy tale - it happens to elderly people very frequently.

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Bryan - oz4caster — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:44:29 GMT

I like Chris Masterjohn's lengthy WAPF treatise:
From Seafood to Sunshine - A New Understanding of Vitamin D Safety

It's a long read, but well worth it. And well referenced.

The bottom line is that the fat soluble vitamins A, D3, E, and K2 are synergistic and together provide optimal health. Vitamins A, E, and K2 must be obtained by diet, ideally from healthy nutrient-dense foods. Vitamin D3 is optimally obtained from sunshine, but can also be obtained from some foods. When Vitamin D3 is obtained by diet, it's best to make sure that there is also adequate intake of A, E, and K2 to insure that Vitamin D3 does not become toxic.

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enzo — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:52:03 GMT

I find the information on Vitamin D to be somewhat scant. Not much telling us how much is too much, and what the signs are of hypervitaminosos D. I continue to take a tsp. of cod liver oil twice a day, even in the hight of summer (40º N Lat).

I've noticed no ill effects. In fact, my skin has become healthier and is very resistant to intense sun exposure. I am fair skinned, and used to sun burn easily, but no longer do so. I will continue my supplemental regimen until I am convinced otherwise.