Sunshine and Health for All of LifeSunshine and health go hand in hand. Everything that is alive depends on the sun and it's processes. That includes the energy wavelengths of various types, the most beneficial to us being the ultraviolet and infrared rays. Sunshine Can Do What?Sunlight on the body can
Twice The Benefit - Exercise AND Sunlight!Ramp up these benefits when you throw physical activity into the picture! Cut your fatigue and exhaustion in half while doubling your capacity to work! This happens partly because of an increase in glycogen content in the blood and muscles after sunshine and exercise combined. Lower My Heart RateWant a Lance Armstrong resting heart rate? OK... not that low but sunlight will lower your resting heart rate. AND after exercising, it will return to normal more quickly. Your heart strength is steadied and deepened. All because of sunlight! Not 20 drugs, but pure, natural sun! When your heart strength is steadied, it now pumps more blood with each beat, therefore slowing down and resting between beats. So a slower, steadied heart with an increase in oxygen output all because of a sunbath!? Amazing! Here's to your health! Insulin Effects From The Sun?Insulin effects From the Sun?! Diabetics, listen up! Exposure to the sun has been found to have an insulin like effect on the body by lowering blood sugar. No sliding scales, no guess work... the sun knows how to handle your health! The sun will lower blood sugar for those who have a problem with high blood sugars! The sunlight causes stored sugar, or glycogen to be increased thus lowering the blood sugar. Since this glycogen is lowered and stored more in the muscles, you have a greater ability for physical activity, work or exercise for longer periods of time. So, if you are a diabetic injecting insulin, be sure to let your doctor know what you are doing so that you can both work on lowering your insulin injections. Low Stress SunbathSunbaths can lower stress and give you a deeper sense of well being, not to mention improved health! We can't forget the good nights' rest that it can help with too! Sunbaths are just plain relaxing and this benefit allows you to handle the stresses of life much better. Stress often facilitates ulcers. Ulcer patients have been shown to benefit and improve from sunbaths as sunshine on the body calms the nerves improving health. Vitamin D- Your Link To LongevitySunshine means vitamin D. The Archives of Internal Medicine reports that plenty of it can cut your risk of death from any cause in half in the next 8 years. The sun. Something that most of us feel or see almost every day (even through cloudy skies). But it is estimated that 50-60% of North America's older population do not have enough Vitamin D from this free resource. Our younger population is not far behind! When the ultraviolet rays of the sun hit the skin, everything changes, most of the time! When sunlight hits tiny oil glands just beneath your skin, ergosterols are irradiated and transformed into vitamin D. This vitamin D is then carried to all parts of your body. THAT is how you get strong bones, strong teeth and strong nails Along with these tiny oil glands are capillaries carrying millions of red blood cells. Three thousand square inches of skin surface make easy access for the sun to "see." Good bone health, lower fracture rates, lower cancer rates, better immune function, lower heart disease rates and lower rates of death from all causes are the result of at least 20-30 ng/mL levels of serum vitamin D. However, two-thirds of North America's senior population has levels less than and far below this. This study followed 3,258 persons for 8 years who had gone to the hospital for angiography. They found that as long as the vitamin D levels remained high, deaths from all causes remained low. But as vitamin D levels dropped, death rates went up. This study was adjusted for age, sex, BMI, physical activity, smoking, diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, aspirin use and other factors. People with adequate Vitamin D levels (30ng/mL) were 2.34 times less like to die than those with less than 10ng.mL Vitamin D (deficient). Those having still less than 30ng/mL levels had 54% increased risk of dying. These low serum people were then compared to people who did not have coronary heart disease and the risk of death from any cause was then 3.6 times higher. This group of people more closely resembled the general public. We can conclude that our mortality can be related to vitamin D levels. How do we remedy this problem? First off, find out what your serum vitamin D level is. If you are older, as this study pointed out, or not out in the sunshine much, ask your doctor to check this level as soon as possible. If your levels come back inadequate, it's very simple and important that you take steps to improve it. Sunbaths. 10-15 minutes a day of direct summer sunlight on a large portion of your exposed skin may produce over 20,000 IU of vitamin D. Maximum benefits may come from two 10-minutes sessions a day. Longer exposure is not needed as your body will produce all the vitamin D it can in the first 10-15 minutes. Since the ultraviolet rays that make Vitamin D are filtered out of the atmosphere in the northern winter climates, a vitamin D supplement is a good idea. Serum vitamin D levels can drop significantly during the winter months. In this particular study, these levels dropped by 89% from August to March. How much you ask? The goal here is to raise your serum vitamin D levels. So, if it's winter time or if you don't get regular sunlight on your skin for optimal health, vitamin D researchers recommend taking at least 1,000 IU of vitamin D daily. No more than 2,000 IU of vitamin D a day. Have your doctor check your levels again as your goal is to get above 30ng.mL Remember too that kids need plenty of sunlight for their health. If they don't get enough Vitamin D, their bones become soft. And sunlight affects the health of newborns with jaundice as well. Sunlight and health is important from day one! Better Than Cheerios!Sunshine and your health... lowering your cholesterol one point at a time. Will Cheerios lower your cholesterol more than sunshine? Maybe, but I doubt it. In 1904 it was discovered that the cholesterol just beneath the skin was changed to Vitamin D when sunlight hit the skin. Then cholesterol from the blood is sent to take it's place and this in turn is also changed to Vitamin D. End result? Lower blood cholesterol! (Reported 13% reduction two hours after a sunbath!) Lower your stroke risk too! Harmful blood vessel deposits in the brain may also be helped by sunlight exposure. In 1970, Russian research found that sunbaths helped people with hardening of the arteries in the brain. How? Improved mental performance, health and memory were noted. They also found that shorter more frequent sunbaths where twice as effective.
And The List Goes On!Sunshine affects your health in so many ways. Here are a few more:
OR LightsLights in the operating room are more than just lights! Before ultraviolet lights became a part of OR's worldwide, deadly bacteria, including staph, lurked in the air of operating rooms increasing infections in those undergoing surgery. Back in 1935, Daryl Hart discovered that the germs that came within 8 feet of the ultraviolet light were killed within 10 minutes no matter how low the light intensity was. Experiments have also been done noting a decrease in respiratory infections when UV light was used in sleeping quarters. Your answer? Sunlight - here's to your health! They DO go hand in hand! Pull back the curtains and let it shine in! Let those UV rays do their zap work and lower your risk of infection! And when you check into the hospital for that operation, be sure and get a southern exposed room... patients recover more quickly in these rooms. Let that sunshine partially purify your room and your home! These UV rays also kill bacteria on the skin so you're covered in the OR! Sunshine and health benefits are best, though, from the original source - the sun! Even water purification has turned to ultraviolet irradiation. This has been shown effective for cholera, typhoid, bacillary dysentery, and hepatitis. Skin Germs - Zapped!Sunlight not only kills bacteria on the skin, it also changes natural body oils on the skin into bactericidal agents. These oils, like water, evaporate into the air. That vapor can kill bacteria if it has been exposed to the sunlight. Another cheers to your health! White Blood Cell FactorySunlight is working to improve your health in overwhelming ways if you would just get out in it! Sunlight exposure increases the number of white blood cells in your body. This improves your immune system thus keeping your health up to a better par! The biggest health boost is the most powerful germ killer - lymphocytes. These also produce antibodies - for up to two weeks after sunlight exposure. Neutrophils get a caffeine like boost after sunlight exposure, ramping up health by chewing up harmful bacteria more rapidly - how about doubled! Wound CareAs sunlight hits the skin, circulation increases through a greater blood supply to the exposed area. The ultraviolet rays of sunlight boosts the health of the wound by killing bacteria in and around it. Talk to your doctor first, but you just may benefit from sunbaths to your wounds for a little bit each day. Remember the first choice of sunlight for your health is that from the natural blazing ball in the sky! Heavy Metal Detox?Worried about poisonous chemicals in your body? It is a known fact that sunlight helps to destroy many of them.
Sunlight helps to increase the amount of enzymes in the system whose purpose is to gobble those chemicals up! Nature has perfect math too... in exchange for the poisonous chemicals, sunshine helps to increase those valuable trace minerals in your body! When it comes to your health, you can hardly go wrong with sunshine!
Weight Loss Too?!Give me sunshine, shed the pounds! That easy? Maybe not, but sunshine has been known to improve the function of the thyroid. That little glad regulates your metabolism... so get out in those ultraviolet rays for your health! Increase that metabolism and you'll use more calories! Not just by helping the thyroid but with increased muscle tone which uses more calories as well. One more bonus...less chance of tearing during childbirth with regular sunbaths during pregnancy.
4.0 GPA? Try This!Sunlight affects your health and your grades in ways you won't believe! Regular sunbaths can help you in school!
Got Sunsine?Dr. Zane Kime, in his book, Sunlight  , wrote this:"If too much sunlight is received, it can have a drying effect, and one may occasionally have flaking, dry skin. Exposure to the sun should be progressive, beginning with only a few minutes a day...If the tissues of the skin are saturated with the necessary vitamins, the sun will not age the skin but enhance its beauty." p. 89. "Nutrition and sunlight are intimately related. By striking the skin, sunlight can produce certain hormones and nutrients like Vitamin D. Unless one has a proper diet, sunlight has an ill effect on the skin. This must be emphasized: Sunbathing is dangerous for those who are on the standard high fat American diet or do not get an abundance of vegetables, whole grains and fresh fruits. Those on a standard high fat diet should stay out of the sun and protect themselves from it; but, at the same time, they will suffer the consequences of both the high fat diet and the deficiency of sunlight." p. 117
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