Dermatologists let you hide from it and modern living would lead us to think we can do just fine by living in caves — offices, homes and cars. But our genetic roots tell us we ought to be naked and in a climate where we could be so. Should we think dermatologists and contemporary way of life or our history and genes?

Wisdom

The solution is obvious but few live with its own wisdom. This discussion of vitamin D will offer incredible and surprising evidence of the Wysong doctrine and provide you a basic ingredient for your wellbeing. Seeing the complexity of vitamin D, even if you don’t know it, will make the point that our requirement for vitamin D is no crash and proves our inextricable connection to nature. For those not technically savvy, just let your eyes glaze over during the tough components and proceed.

So no matter windows, if we are inside we could pretty much guess vitamin D isn’t being generated. Clothing naturally further seals our fate as does sun screen with SPF above 8 (reduces vitamin D production by 95 percent ). Living in the northern half of the nation (even over 30 degrees latitude, the Florida panhandle) also dooms people to insufficient sun for nearly nine months of this year.

Wussten Sie das?

If you’re dark-skinned you will need up to ten times the amount of sunlight as a fair skinned person to generate adequate levels of vitamin D. Its unnatural enough when fair skinned men and women reside in latitudes requiring garments, dark skinned men and women are fish out of water there and endure severe consequences because of this. Food sources of this vitamin include cod liver oil, sardines, salmon, tuna, mackerel, liver, egg yolk, butter, dark green vegetables, algae, mushrooms, phytoplankton and fortified milk.

But in the main, food resources provide insufficient levels unless they are consumed raw (the triene structure in vitamin D is degraded by acid and light-catalyzed isomerization) and in adequate quantity — many of us don’t do that. Our and large hairless bodies (forcing us to wear unnatural clothes and reside in artificially heated environs) and the fact that there’s not any negative comments shutting down production of vitamin D in the skin, strongly argues that we are meant to be in sunlight, not dependent upon food scientists to reinforce milk.

Gut zu wissen

Older folks have diminished ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin, have poorer digestive efficiency and decreased liver and kidney function to convert vitamin D to the active forms. There’s a reason the older go south and feel better . They may not know exactly why other than not wanting to shovel snow, but ole sol does. Also, those individuals with malabsorption problems, Crohn’s disease, cystic fibrosis, pancreatic, liver and kidney disease or deficiency, or who have had part of their digestive tract eliminated are at higher risk of vitamin D deficiency.

Vitamin D demands precholesterol and is fat soluble and thus”low fat” diets and”low cholesterol” diets place older individuals currently deficient at even greater danger. Some kinds of artificial light can produce vitamin D in the skin. Tanning salons (not recommended since you do not — and neither does anybody else — really understand what you’re being exposed to) can produce vitamin D in the skin if the maximum UV-B:UV-A ratio is used. No more than 15-30 minutes of skin exposure (as much as possible bare without getting arrested) into midday sunlight three times each week is believed adequate to meet vitamin D needs.

Vitamin D Facts

The vitamin is fat soluble and is stored in the blood and adipose tissue to make some book, but daily sun-synthesized vitamin D is considered optimal. Pregnant and nursing moms who don’t get out in sunlight, or possess an improper diet, are poor sources of vitamin D to their babies. Not only will the baby’s bone health be affected but nearly every other health parameter will be too. Vitamin D is potentially the most important hormone in the full body. D enhances the absorption of phosphorus and calcium from the intestinal tract, which drinking fortified milk will prevent rickets. But bone health is just a small portion of the story.

Studies have now accumulated demonstrating that our connection to sunlight and the vitamin D produces touches virtually all aspects of physiology. This solves a puzzle vexing me for several years. When I’d go south in the winter I’d experience an almost miraculous transformation in health. No sickness, terrific sleep, incredible energy and high spirits. I could intensify my workouts and lift more weight, and about the exact same day play two-on-two beach volleyball for hours (not a simple game for certain ), roller blade miles to the shore and to the grocery store and back carrying 50 pounds. Was it the heat, the oxygen-rich air coming from the sea, the break in the normal work routine? Well now I understand. I am a vitamin D-hungry guy. You may be too.

Was geschieht hier?

Ignore Mother Nature and pay the Purchase Price. We’re intended to be out-of-doors with skin exposed to sunlight. If we do not do this, one (notice, I said only one) of the probable consequences is vitamin D deficiency. I’m positive that only begins the list. Since vitamin D influences everything, you can pretty well figure that if you’re sick or not feeling well it’s linked to vitamin D deficiency at least in part because well over 95 percent of the populace in the U.S. Let me preface this part as I do each matter where I address toxicity.

Anything could be toxic, even oxygen and water, in adequate dose. The dose makes the poison. If you’re concerned about getting cancer from sunlight, put your thinking cap . Believe nature before you think a dermatologist. Certainly do not get sunburned. Evidence suggests that cancer could be related to people who get sun burned and are vitamin D deficient to start. Don’t remain in the sun longer than you should because you’ve SPF 460 slathered on. Acclimatize to sunlight.

Protection

Wear clothes. Protect skin that may not be covered with nontoxic sun blocks (Wysong Reflector™). Concerning melanoma, consider that the most frequent areas for it to look are on the backs of men and inner thighs of women. On the back of the hands and the face that are most exposed to sunlight. Melanoma doesn’t decrease with the use of sunscreen. Some studies show that increased sun exposure actually reduces the risk of melanoma. No, the sun isn’t toxic; it’s life and health-giving in proper dose.

There’s never been a report of Vitamin D toxicity from sunlight exposure. So that is the very best and safest source. But not everybody is able to get enough sunlight so supplements are the next best thing. It’s possible to get a lot of but the margin of security is immense. The government has set the minimum standard at 400 IU each day. But a person would have to take 42,000 capsules containing 1000 IU each to have a 50% chance of dying if he had been as sensitive to vitamin D as the most sensitive animal studied.

One man got sick from taking 156,000 IU daily for two decades and recovered. One researcher, tired of all of the naysayers claiming Vitamin D is so poisonous, offered a reward to anyone who may show any toxicity at all to vitamin D in 40,000 units each day. No takers thus far.

Toxizität

That said, certain conditions could increase the risk of toxicity. This would include those with Williams Syndrome (a genetic defect in vitamin D metabolism), sarcoidosis, hyperparathyroidism, some cancers, adrenal insufficiency and individuals on certain medications such as thiazide diuretics. Most cases involved people who were carrying more than 50,000 IU daily for decades. In babies 10,000 IU daily for 4 months and 200,000 IU each day for 2 months has caused toxicity.

Why adults would be getting such large doses is beyond me. Remember, the government standard is 400 IU each day. If worried about toxicity of oral supplements, consult a nutritionally savvy doctor. Blood tests that measure vitamin D, calcium and the parathyroid are useful for this purpose. Ideal amounts for calcitriol (25-hydroxyvitamin D) vary between 30-50 ng/ml based on the expert. It’s understood that less than 35 ng/ml will reduce the rate of calcium absorption in the gut so at the level you are questionably deficient.

Sonnenschein

Sunshine alone can lead to blood levels of 80 ng/ml. People working out or live by the equator have about 50 ng/ml. So I’d doubt those labs that state amounts as low as 8 ng/ml are”normal.” If serum calcium is measured over the standard variety of 8.5-10.5 mg/dl, especially in the above-12 age group, this may indicate vitamin D toxicity too. I hate to give you the belief that health is achieved by the numbers so to speak. No lab ever denies nor demonstrates good health when the body tells you contrary. But I’d be remiss in not mentioning the caveats here and the way you can use to be certain where you stand.

My sense — in the absence of some bizarre clinical or medical circumstance — is that if you aren’t getting out in sunlight almost daily rather than eating proper vitamin D-rich foods or taking supplements, you’re at high risk for the myriad diseases that could result. Opinions vary on oral doses of vitamin D. The government has just ratcheted up recommendations from the previous 40 IU to 200 IU for people less than 50 years old, 400 IU for those over 50 and 600 IU for those over 70. That’s the most conservative.

Schlussbemerkung

Living in tune with nature and according to the manner we are designed is essential to the Wysong health philosophy I always preach. Low vitamin D means you’re doing things wrong. Like the small canaries in the cages miners would take down them in the caves to indicate by their passing that toxic air was current and the miners better skedaddle out of there, our disorders are the warning signals in more cases than we have imagined that we aren’t living right. Our cave-like contemporary living is a bane to good health. The remedy is to go back to our roots. Roots firmly planted where our health can blossom in sunlight.