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Sources Of Vitamin D

By on December 5, 2011 in Vitamin-D

sources-of-vitamin-dSources of Vitamin D – which are the safest?

The magic benefits of Vitamin D for our health are by now well known. But which are the best and most natural sources of Vitamin D?

The pharmaceutical industry are telling us that food supplements are the safest sources of Vitamin D. They are well backed and surfing on the anti-tanning wave invented by the manufacturers of sun-protection lotions and sun-scare lobbyists on their payroll.

The fact is that nature never intended pills to be among the sources of Vitamin D. The human body has evolved thanks to sunlight and the rays from the sun were and still are the most natural sources of Vitamin D.

If sunlight could be fetched and sold by bottle, this source of Vitamin D would have had much stronger commercial support. Because UV-rays, and especially UVB-rays are the only natural sources of Vitamin D.

Actually UV-light has been “caught and bottled” by the inventor of sun-lamps, Dr. Wolff. Unfortunately he has not yet got the Nobel-prize he deserves for this invention. Instead tanning beds are being attacked every day for being life-threatening devices and laws are created to keep us away from them.

But the truth is that tanning beds can be just as good, or even better, sources of Vitamin D than sunlight from the natural sun. As Dr. Michael Holick writes in his latest book “The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy To Cure Our Most Common Health Problems“:

“A UVB photon (packet of energy) is a photon whether it is produced by the sun or by a tanning bed with fluorescent lamps.”

This means that the two best sources of Vitamin D are the sun and tanning beds.

If there are still any doubts that you can get Vitamin D from a tanning bed, the compilation of research reports as below, made by Ad Brand, Scientific Advisor to the European Sunlight Association, will for sure scatter any doubts that tanning beds are excellent sources of Vitamin D.

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Indoor UV exposure capable of inducing vitamin D

http://www.nature.com/jid/journal/v130/n5/full/jid2009417a.html

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of possibly to restrictive warnings against sun exposure causing too low vit D levels and its known health consequences in order to minimize skin cancer risk.

Exposing 35% of body surface three times a week with a sub erythemal dose (1,1 SED)resulted in, quote: “The 6 weeks of UVR exposures caused the vitamin D level to rise significantly.” and: ”

This is consistent with the results of a previous study (Moan et al., 2009)”Unquote.

This again seems to indicate that it a modern sun bed with EU approved low UVB lamps, but whole body exposed twice a week at one MED, most likely does a similar job in increasing vitamin D levels.

Sun and sun bed Vitamin D

http://journals.cambridge.org/action//displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8413712&fulltextType=RV&fileId=S1368980011002801

Quote:”The lack of sunlight exposure leads to more health problems than bone disease and increased risk for cancer. Other benefits include protection against infectious diseases and non-cancerous diseases  like diabetes, CVD, multiple sclerosis and mental disorders.” Unquote. This work was supported by the Norwegian Cancer Society obviously in a welcome attempt to find a sensible balance between the risks of too low vitamin D and too much UV exposure.

Conclusion of this study seems to be that moderate sun and sunlight exposure are predominantly beneficial.

Sun bed vitamin D

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22013924

This study was carried out with a cabinet made for psoriasis treatment. Consequently with more UVB than in today’s EU norm allowed sun beds. But the (sub erythem) exposure was once in two weeks only.

Since the dosage is determining the effect (Bunsen&Roscoe law) the once or twice a week moderate exposure with an EU approved sunbed is indeed expected to do a similar job, as e.g. Prof Moan and his team has found in his study “sunbeds as vitamin D sources”.

UV induced vitamin D

http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/2/211.abstract

This study was performed with a unit emitting a mix. of UV A and B.

It indicates that UV with sufficient UVB contend, sufficient body surface exposed can induce significant vitamin D.

Indoor UV induced vitamin D

http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jnsv/54/1/54_105/_article

In this “letter to the editor” the undersigned indicate that moderate indoor UV exposure is able to improve vitamin D levels in man.

It also recommends to consider using moderate sun bed exposure for those with low vitamin D levels especially during the winter months.

Sunbed and Vitamin D

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0781.2007.00302.x/abstract;jsessionid=BCBA6501727AF07342AF0CA39401DFC1.d02t03

This study confirms that moderate sun bed use as is stipulated by the EU safety norm and with sufficient UVB with the EU Norm framework can/will lead to significant vitamin D induction.

Don’t gamble with your health! Get Vitamin D in the way nature intended it and from the two safest sources of Vitamin D – sunlight and tanning beds.

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Melanoma – Not From Too Much Sun But From Too Little!

By on November 20, 2011 in Vitamin-D

Melanoma, the most deadly skin-cancer, does not occur from too much sun.

That is the conclusion from an article at Mercola.com, the World’s #1 Natural Health Website.

The studies examined in the article confirms that what I have been writing about in my previous posts and in my video about 30-years of sun-scare, are the facts.

Dr Mercola doesn’t go as far as to accuse dermatologists for deliberately exaggerating the diagnoses of common skin lesions as melanoma. There are, however, other compelling indications of that.

Dr Mercolas article also reveals a much better, safer and 100% natural alternative to surgery for treatment of non-melanoma skin-cancer.

Below are some quotes from the article in Mercola.com, with links to external sources.

The Surprising Cause of Melanoma (And No, it’s Not Too Much Sun)

Rates of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, have been rising for at least the last three decades, and this increase has been largely blamed on exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun.

However, research published in the British Journal of Dermatology shows that the sun is likely nothing more than a scapegoat in the development of melanoma and that “the large increase in reported incidence is likely to be due to diagnostic drift, which classifies benign lesions as stage 1 melanoma.”

“These findings should lead to a reconsideration of the treatment of ‘early’ lesions, a search for better diagnostic methods to distinguish them from truly malignant melanomas, re-evaluation of the role of ultraviolet radiation and recommendations for protection from it, as well as the need for a new direction in the search for the cause of melanoma.”

This applies not only to skin cancer but other types of cancer as well. Here are just a few highlights into some of the most noteworthy findings:

  • According to research by Dr. Cedric Garland, professor of family and preventive medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, some 600,000 cases of breast and colorectal cancers could be prevented each year if vitamin D levels among populations worldwide were increased,
  • Optimizing your vitamin D levels could help you to prevent at least 16 different types of cancer including pancreatic, lung, ovarian, prostate, and skin cancers.
  • A large-scale, randomized, placebo-controlled study on vitamin D and cancer showed that vitamin D can cut overall cancer risk by as much as 60 percent. This was such ground-breaking news that the Canadian Cancer Society has actually begun endorsing the vitamin as a cancer-prevention therapy.
  • Light-skinned women who had high amounts of long-term sun exposure had half the risk of developing advanced breast cancer (cancer that spreads beyond your breast) as women with lower amounts of regular sun exposure, according to a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
  • A study by Dr. William Grant, Ph.D., internationally recognized research scientist and vitamin D expert, found that about 30 percent of cancer deaths — which amounts to 2 million worldwide and 200,000 in the United States — could be prevented each year with higher levels of vitamin D.

When Using the Sun to Fight Cancer, the Dose is What Matters

The proper dosage to optimize your vitamin D levels means exposing enough of your skin for it to get a slight pink color. The exact time will vary radically depending on many variables, such as you skin color, time of day, season, clouds, altitude and age.  The key principle is to never get burned, while still spending as much time as you can in the sun during the peak hours.

A common myth is that occasional exposure of your face and hands to sunlight is “sufficient” for vitamin D nutrition. For most of us, this is an absolutely inadequate. And if you use sunscreen, you will block your body’s ability to produce vitamin D!

Contrary to popular advice, the best time to be in the sun for vitamin D production is actually as near to solar noon as possible which is 1 PM in the summer for most (due to Daylight Saving Time). Most people with fair skin will max out their vitamin D production in just 10-20 minutes. Some will need less, others more. The darker your skin, the longer exposure you will need to optimize your vitamin D production.

Why Not Just Take Vitamin D from a Supplement?

If sunlight or a safe tanning bed is not an option, you can get vitamin D3 in supplement form. This is better than getting no vitamin D at all. However, UVB is really the superior source for vitamin D.

What Should Your Vitamin D Levels be for Cancer Protection?Melanoma-vitamin-d-levels

Natural Treatment for Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer

Millions of Americans are diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancers every year. Dr Bill E. Cham, the leading researcher in this area has shown that cream containing eggplant extract, known as BEC and BEC5, appears to cure and eliminate most non-melanoma skin cancers in just 14 weeks’ time. Unlike surgery, the eggplant-extract cream leaves no scarring and no visible sign a tumor or lesion was ever present. The eggplant extract appears to be exceptionally safe and only kills cancerous cells, leaving healthy cells untouched, and causes only minor side effects, such as itching and burning.

Dr. Cham’s latest study was published in the International Journal of Clinical Medicine this year. The paper includes two impressive case reports of 60-something men who were suffering from large basal cell carcinoma (BCC) or squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), which had plagued them for years.  The results upon treatment with a cream formulation of BEC (eggplant extract) twice a day are astounding, and you can view the pictures here.

There are by now so many reports from thoroughly conducted research on the benefits of Vitamin D obtained from moderate but regular UVB exposure, that it leaves without a doubt that tanning is a very healthy activity. Still, the sun-scare lobby is very successful scaring politicians and the non-enlightened public with fraudulent statistics showing that the sun is dangerous. The question is – when will real research and common sense conquer over commercially sponsored “PR-research”? As long as the “dark forces” are successful, our health will continue to deteriorate. That is, of course, one of the purposes of the many cancer-driving organizations that benefits from our suffering.

 

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Does Vitamin D Make You Tan?

By on August 5, 2011 in Vitamin-D

Does vitamin d make you tan

Does vitamin d make you tan?

Is it possible that Vitamin D make you tan?

I suppose you know by now that tanning is the best way to make Vitamin D, but does also Vitamin D make you tan?

Many visitors are arriving to thetanningguru.com after having searched in Google for the answer to the question: “Does Vitamin D make you tan?”.

My spontaneous thought when I see that question is that we are dealing with a mix-up between cause and effect.

It is a little bit like asking if the melting ice around the North-pole is causing the global warming (if there is one).

So the answer to the question if Vitamin D make you tan is most likely: No, vitamin D does not make you tanned but tanning makes you make Vitamin D and that you can get a tan in this process.

However, since Vitamin D is a main contributor to your body’s immune defense, Vitamin D do have some positive effects when tanning.

For example, Vitamin D helps to fight the free radicals that comes from tanning and it is proved that high levels of Vitamin diminish the risk for most cancers, also skin-cancer.

The time needed for UVB-light from the sun or from the lamps in a tanning bed to produce your daily dose of vitamin D is much shorter than what is needed for you to get a tan (or a sun-burn).

Unfortunately most people do not know how they can find the precious UVB-rays that have so many positive health effects.

Some health-authorities (like the Dutch Cancer-council) have recognized that their previous sun-avoidance advice was counter-productive to their purpose. Most others, still preach the mantra invented by the sun-scare industry: “Apply sun-screen whenever outdoors and stay away from sunlight in the middle of the day.”.

UVB-rays in sunlight reach the earth only when the sun is higher than 50 degrees above the horizon (that is a little bit higher than in the middle between the horizon and straight above your head) and the sky must be clear (no clouds or pollution). The right time for healthy tanning is therefore in the middle of the day.

Sun-protection cosmetics on your skin makes it impossible for the UVB-rays to do their job. You have to be a short time in the sun everyday without sun-protection in order to get vitamin d in a natural way.

Another challenge for the UVB-seeker is that for most of the time of the year (at least for many of us) the sun never gets above 50 degrees.

The tanning-lamp emitting approximately the same spectra of UV-light like the sun, is therefore an invention well worth a Nobel-prize.

A tanning bed, equipped with low-pressure lamps, is a good substitute to the sun and available at your leisure. Look for a tanning bed equipped with lamps with at least 5% (for USA) or 2.5% (for Europe) UVB/UVA ratio. Of course, and since you tan mainly for health through vitamin d, the time in the tanning-bed can be kept shorter than if your goal is to get the darkest skin-color.

The risk of using tanning beds is much much exaggerated by the sun-scare lobby. All studies of vitamin D show that moderate and regular visits to a tanning bed only have positive effect on your health.

If you keep your skin moistured and use tanning lotions based on Aloe vera or coconut-milk,with a lot of silicone and other active skin-care ingredients, it will stay young and smooth.

Here is a good post in order to find out the details of how to tan.

So even if the answer to “does vitamin d make you tan” is no, tanning is the best, safest, and only natural way to get your vitamin d.

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Reduce the risk of breast-cancer with sunlight

By on June 20, 2011 in Vitamin-D

Sunlight and vitamin D-rich diet can reduce the risk of breast-cancer with up to 43 %.

Breast cancer rates in GB 1975-2008

Breast cancer rates in GB 1975-2008

This conclusion from a French study among 70,000 women, confirms the Swedish study reported from in my post Tanned-women-live-longer.

Breast-cancer is the by far most common cancer among women (prostate-cancer, is the most common among men). Take a look at the diagram to the left and try to figure out why we see such an increase in breast-cancer incidence?

I suppose one answer is that because of being scared away from the sun and sunbeds and encouraged to cover themselves with sunscreen day and night, most women are severely deficient in Vitamin D. (To be fair, an increased screening is also contributing to the elevation of the curve).

This video about “30 Years of Sun-Scare”, shows the relationship between cancer-incidences and the sales of sun-screen lotions. if you have not watched it yet, do it now!

And please note that even if natural sunlight is the best source of  UVB, you will get the same natural effect for Vitamin D from the UVB-rays in a tanning bed. So do not let the lack of sunlight keep you from reducing the risk of breast-cancer.

Here is the Press release from Sunlight Research Forum (SRF), reporting from the latest French study. The emphasizes are made by me.

Sun and a vitamin D-rich diet reduce the risk of breast-cancer by up to 43 percent

Attested by a study among 70.000 women: the crucial aspect is sufficient UVBradiation; diet or food supplements merely have a supporting function.
Veldhoven, 20 June 2011 (SRF).

Regular sun exposure and a vitamin D-rich diet reduce the risk of developing breast cancer by around 32 to 43 percent. The deciding factor in prevention is exposure to adequate UVB rays. Admittedly food that is rich in vitamin D,such as fish, dairy products, eggs and certain types of oils or food supplements, can boost the effects of the sun, but used alone they have little effect on the occurrence or progression of the disease.

These are the findings of researchers from the FrenchNational Institute for Health and Medical Research (Institut National de la Santé et de laRecherche Médicale[INSRM]) in Paris, obtained during a study published in the professionaljournal “Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers”. In this study, scientists observed around 70,000 women over a period of ten years. During this period, 2,871 cases of breast cancer were diagnosed. According to the study, women who live in sunny regions such as Provence and who eat a vitamin D-rich diet have a far lower risk of developing breast cancer than women who have less sun exposure, who live in cloudier areas and who ingest less vitamin D through their food or food supplements.

The conclusion of the research group: “A high dose of vitamin D via exposure to sunlight and nutrition is necessary in order to obtain a sufficient protective effect against breastcancer. However, this value is very difficult for women to achieve in northern countries as the sunlight in these regions is not strong enough to ensure a sufficient supply of vitamin D.”.Furthermore, the scientists explain, following the menopause it is far more difficult to achieve the protective effect from the combination of sun and a vitamin-D rich diet.

The Sunlight Research Forum (SRF) is a non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands.Its aim is to make the latest medical and scientific evidence on the effects of moderate exposure to UV radiation available to the general public.

Reference:
Pierre Engel, Guy Fagherazzi, Sylvie Mesrine, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Francoise Clavel-Chapelonet: “Joint Effects of Dietary Vitamin D and Sun Exposure on Breast Cancer Risk: Resultsfrom the French E3N Cohort”; in: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2011;20:187-198. PublishedOnline First December 2, 2010

Media contact: Ad Brand Sunlight Research Forum (SRF), Tel.: +31 (0)651 358 180, info@sunlightresearchforum.eu,www.sunlightresearchforum.eu

Tanning and a vitamin D-rich diet reduce the risk of breast-cancer

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Do tanners make stronger children?

By on May 20, 2011 in Vitamin-D

tanned-sperms-fasterIt is proved that sunshine make children stronger and now a new research also show that tanners make stronger children.

The Sunlight Research Forum (SRF) reports in their latest press-release from a new research of the importance of Vitamin D for human reproduction. The new study is done by a group of scientists from the University of Copenhagen Denmark.

The conclusion of the study is that men with high levels of the “Sunshine hormone” Vitamin D, produce stronger and faster sperms than men with low levels of Vitamin D.

Earlier, University of Arizona studies found that women are biologically programmed to seek out men with tanned skin because they’re perceived as older, richer and more “dangerous”.  Chemically speaking, the melanin responsible for tanning also boosts both your sex drives.

Apparently the two studies complement each other perfectly.

Here is the press-release:

Sperm switch into top gear with the sun

A study has proved that an adequate supply of vitamin D gives sperm an advantage in terms of motility, speed and penetration force

Veldhoven, 19 May 2011 (SRF) Men who top up on vitamin D in the sun or in a solarium, give their sperm an advantage in terms of motility, speed and penetration force. This was the conclusion of a study conducted by scientists from the University of Copenhagen investigating the role of vitamin D in human sperm production.

The scientists tested the quality of sperm from 300 men chosen at random and a detailed analysis of sperm from a further 40 participants was performed in the laboratory. At the same time the level of vitamin D in their blood was measured.

Almost half of the men had an insufficient level of vitamin D, below 50 nmol/l. The optimum level of vitamin D recommended by most experts is a minimum of 75 nmol/l. The sperm in men with higher vitamin D levels demonstrated significantly better performance in terms of motility and speed. In addition, the number of healthy sperm in men with insufficient vitamin D was considerably lower than in participants with normal levels. The ability to absorb calcium was also inhibited as well as the acrosome reaction which occurs during penetration of the female egg. Tests conducted in the laboratory resulted in similar findings.

The Sunlight Research Forum (SRF) is a non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands. Its aim is to make the latest medical and scientific evidence on the effects of moderate exposure to UV radiation available to the general public.

Study:

Martin Blomberg Jensen et al. (University Department of Growth and Reproduction, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark): “Vitamin D is positively associated with sperm motility and increases intracellular calcium in human spermatozoa”; in: Human Reproduction, 22 March 2011

Media contact:

Ad Brand

Sunlight Research Forum (SRF)

Tel.: +31 (0)651 358 180

info@sunlightresearchforum.eu

www.sunlightresearchforum.eu

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Vitamin D deficiency?

By on January 25, 2011 in Vitamin-D

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Been on a sunny vacation? Got a nice tan? Think you are above the level for Vitamin D deficiency?

Yes, maybe you are, IF you tanned like described in my previous post “Do you know how to tan?”.

Unfortunately most people still adhere to the strong commercial (although hidden as medical) recommendations from makers of sun-protection lotions: ”Whenever in the sun, use lostions with high SPF and re-apply often”. If you still followed that advice, you can stop reading now because in that case you effectively prevented your skin from making any Vitamin D at all and from a health point of view, you could have saved the money for the trip to the sun.

You might have got a tanned color from the UVA-rays that most sunscreen lotions let through, but that is only a surface tan which makes you skin more dry and wrinkled and which disappears very quickly. Furthermore UVA-rays do not produce any Vitamin D. The same goes for getting a tan through a glass-window since glass lets through UVA but, just like most SPF-lotions, blocks the healthy UVB-rays that can make Vitamin D.

However, if you followed the advice in “Do you know how to tan?”, and been in the sun at a location and at a time when the sun was high enough on the sky (>50°) during a long enough time without sun-protection for your skin to make Vitamin D (but not so long that it got burned), you should have been able to considerably raise the level of Vitamin D in your blood.

When you come back home the question is how long time does it take until you again are below Vitamin D deficiency?

Many believe that a good tan during the summer keeps your level high all through the winter. Even an Authority on Vitamin D like Dr. Michael Holick, mention in his latest book “The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problem” that we can “stock up for the winter”.

Unfortunately, this “stock” of Vitamin D lasts only a couple of weeks until you again are becoming Vitamin D deficient if you don’t take any action.

I know this because I tested on myself. Arriving back after a sunny vacation to my living place (where it is impossible to get any UVB from the sun between mid-August until mid-May), my blood level of 25-vitamin D was 74.5 ng/ml (~186 nmol/l), which is a fairly safe level. (the level for deficiency varies depending on which source you read, but below 10 ng/ml (~25 nmol/l) is for sure deficient and below 30 ng/ml (~75 nmol/l) is “not enough”.  More info from the Vitamin D Council here).

So far, so good. Following my own advice, I had achieved the wanted result (and, as a bonus, got a nice, long-lasting, “full-spectrum” tan). Measuring again two weeks later, the blood level of Vitamin D had already dropped to 52.7 ng/ml (~131.5 nmol/l). The sun-tan had at this time also faded to about half of what it was at arrival.

Since I don’t want to take any unnecessary risk with my health, it was then time to continue the usual habit of regular (two or three times a week) and moderate indoor solarium tanning. I know from earlier experience will keep my level of Vitamin D high enough to give a good protection towards the common colds and influenza that most other people suffer from during wintertime.

The conclusion is that, at least for me, a high blood level of Vitamin D, achieved by an optimal way to tan in the natural sun, sinks approximately at the same speed as the skin loose its tanned color. A month without “filling-up” in a solarium brings back the Vitamin D deficiency. And with that a considerably higher risk to catch any illness.

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Tanned-women-live-longer

By on December 4, 2010 in Vitamin-D
MailOnline - news, sport, celebrity, science and health stories

Tanned women live longer (as long as you sunbathe sensibly), say scientists

By Sophie Borland
Last updated at 1:51 AM on 4th December 2010

Women who regularly sunbathe live longer, a leading cancer specialist has claimed.

Hakan Olsson says his research shows the health benefits of exposure to sunlight ‘far outweigh’ the danger of skin cancer.

He said vitamin D produced by the body when tanning gives vital protection against blood clots, diabetes and some tumours.

But the professor’s claims, based on a study of 40,000 women, sharply contradict warnings that sun exposure is behind soaring levels of skin cancer.

Dr Ollson said catching the sun had more health benefits than costs, as long as you don't burnDr Ollson said catching the sun had more health benefits than costs, as long as you don’t burn

Rates of malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of the disease, have quadrupled since 1980. Experts blame the rise on sunbeds and the increasing numbers of Britons going abroad on cheap package holidays.

But Professor Olsson, who works in the oncology unit at Lund University in Sweden, believes the benefits of the sun ‘far outweigh the negatives’.

He said there was overwhelming evidence that exposure to the sun helps protect against blood clots in the leg, which claim the lives of 25,000 Britons a year.

These clots, known as deep vein thromboses, have been shown to be far more prevalent in winter than summer.

Professor Olsson, who was presenting his research at the Swedish Society of Medicine, cited other studies showing that more patients are diagnosed with diabetes in the colder months, a phenomenon attributed to a lack of vitamin D.

For his study, he examined tanning habits and the incidence of illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes or malignant melanoma.

‘Our studies show that women with active sunbathing habits live longer,’ he said.

Professor Olsson also suggested that skin cancer was not caused by sunbathing alone.

‘I and many others believe that there may be factors other than the sun that influence the risk of malignant melanoma,’ he said.

‘The burning of the skin in the sun is not enough to explain this.’

But Ed Yong, of Cancer Research UK, said: ‘While some sunshine is good for us and vitamin D is important for good bone health, there’s inconclusive evidence to suggest that vitamin D protects against other disease such as cancer or heart disease.

‘Not burning is the most important thing people can do to protect themselves against developing skin cancer. Sunburn is a clear sign that skin cells have been damaged and increases the risk of the disease.

‘Everyone is different and you’re most at risk from skin cancer if you have fair skin, red hair, lots of freckles, moles, or a family history of the disease. These people should take extra care in the sun.’

Experts warn that most Britons lack vitamin D, which is found in oily fish, eggs and butter. Ninety per cent of our supply of it comes from the action of sunlight on the skin.

Find this story at www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1335364/Tanned-women-live-longer-say-scientists-Lund-University-Sweden.html

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Nothing new under the sun

By on November 7, 2010 in Vitamin-D

An advertisement from 1933 about Vitamin D in a chocolate drink

Enlightening before the dark ages – shouldn’t it be the other way around?

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The Vitamin D Solution

By on October 25, 2010 in Books, Tanning - all, Vitamin-D

New book from Dr. Michael Holick
The Vitamin D Solution
The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problem

<<<< Click on the image or on the link above to buy the book from Amazon

Dr.Michael Holick is a dermatologist and the world’s leading authority on Vitamin D.  In this his latest book, he describes the result from more than 30 years of research into the secrets of how the human body is using UV-light to protect us from most diseases.

Since this is a blog about tanning (there are many other sources on Internet for Vitamin D), I have extracted in this post what Dr. Holick writes about using UVB from tanning-beds for boosting our Vitamin D levels when UV light from the natural sun is not available (which is most of the time for many of us).  This is Step 1 in his 3-Step Strategy and Chapter 8 in the book.  In Chapter 1-7, he gives all the proof needed in order to understand why we need moderate and regular exposure to UV-light all the year round.

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How to use UV light for vitamin D synthesis

By on October 15, 2010 in Vitamin-D

Edward Gorham, PhD, talks about how to use the sun, or UV light, for vitamin D synthesis.This video is an excerpt from a longer video in a series brought to you by UCSD School of Medicine and GrassrootsHealth where experts discuss the latest research on vitamin D.

Seeing the description of how the skin builds up its own UV-protection, think about the outrageously wrong statement in the latest recommendation from WHO, “Sunbeds, tanning and UV exposure”.  There they advice against using cosmetics when tanning in a solarium, because it “may make the skin more photosensitive and therefore decrease the time it takes for the skin to burn”.  This advice has been fully adopted in France where it is not allowed to sell tanning lotions in a tanning salon.
The active tan-enhancing ingredient in most tanning lotions is Tyrosine.  Tyrosine helps, in combination with other active ingredients, to stimulate the natural production of Melanin, the protein that oxidizes to make the skin darker and less sensitive to UV-light.  As you can see in the video, the Melanin also helps to protect the cells in the skin.  So in reality the tanning lotions which WHO refers to as “making the skin more photosensitive”, actually do exactly the opposite.  But they do increase the tan, which is the visual effect of the natural protection.
Instead WHO recommends that we shall use SPF-lotions with chemicals that destroy the delicate balance between our bodies and the sun.  A balance built up during million years of evolution.  The level of ignorance (and/or corruption) is unbelievable!

As described in my previous post “Do you know how to tan?“, I have proved on myself that lotions with SPF (maximum 15) are only needed when you have to be long time in the sun or on sensitive parts with thin skin (mainly face).

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Click HERE to watch the full video (43 minutes) on YouTube.

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