Vitamin D and sunlight exposure are important for good health
Vitamin D is a very powerful steroid hormone that our body produces in response to sun exposure. So the sunlight that is touching our skin, that is entering our skin, in the form of UV radiation, that means UV-B and UV-A primarily… the UV-B rays stimulate the production of vitamin D and the UV-A rays make sure that we do not produce too much of it and so UV-A’s primarily in charge of removing any excess vitamin D in the body.
Vitamin D is, if it is ingested, can be very toxic, in fact if you ingest too much of it, it can cause damage to the liver and it can actually kill you. So it is important to make a differentiation between supplemental vitamin D and the vitamin D that is produced in response to sunlight and, I always prefer the second option because, you are assured by the sun exposure that you will never ever overdose on vitamin D.
And the importance here is that vitamin D is produced to a point that it can keep your immune system in check , it keeps it balanced, that means it is not aggressive, it is not over reactive and it is not under reactive. That means you will always be in a place where the body is capable of purifying itself, cleansing itself, without the requirement for external stimulation such as viral material that could also lead to an internal purification. If vitamin D levels are in fact low, which typically happens during the winter months when people do not get enough sun exposure, also who have not received enough vitamin D, or have not recharged vitamin D batteries, so to say, during the summer months, they are particularly prone to develop things like the flu or colds or other viral or bacterial infections.
Vitamin D controls about twenty thousand genes in the body and especially those that are responsible for keeping our body free of infection and free of any harm or contamination. So vitamin D is such a powerful hormone that unfortunately, it is not given the credence and the importance, the value, that it has in our physiology, in our body, in our functions, in the functions of all the different organs and systems that are supposed to keep us balanced and healthy.
Now when vitamin D levels drop, you can gradually, as this happens from year to year, increase the risk of developing cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis and many other ailments such as multiple sclerosis which are very, very high comparatively, relatively, to in northern states or colder countries compared with the States or countries nearer to the Equator. So that is where people would have more sun exposure and the incidence of multiple sclerosis and cancer and heart disease and all these other chronic illnesses are much lower in those countries that have a higher sun exposure or where people are more outdoors, living more outdoors than they live indoors.
So, we have a direct connection between vitamin D levels and many of the ailments that people suffer from and it is particularly important for people living in the northern states to find ways to replenish their vitamin D. Now if sun exposure is not sufficient during the winter months then I suggest either to travel to a warmer country if you can, at least to break up the winter, go to Florida or Costa Rica or some other places that have plenty of sunshine during our winter months, or if that is not possible for you, to acquire then a vitamin D lamp or UV lamp, that would help you to keep your vitamin D levels at the level that is required for the body to have a strong healthy immune system and to prevent any infectious illnesses to occur.
Having said that, not even in places where the sun shines in the northern hemisphere, you will not necessarily get enough vitamin D from that during the winter months. You can verify whether you are getting enough or not by standing in the sunlight and if the shadow of your body is longer than the body height, so, in other words if you look down and the shadow has a greater length than your body height then you are not getting vitamin D. If you are, during the midday period, seeing that you shadow is longer than your body’s height then you do not make vitamin D. in that case it would be best to use vitamin D lamp or UV lamp. Dr. Mercola has some standing lamps which are pretty much effective in restoring vitamin D levels. There are smaller lights that you just look at, make sure that you expose at least the upper part of the body or large part of the body to theses UV rays so that you do produce enough vitamin D.
——————————
You may share or republish this article provided you clearly mention the name of Andreas Moritz and paste a hyper link back to the web page
