Sunlight and Your Health: An EnLIGHTening Perspective - Holick Video

Created March 2015

Presented at Vitamin D for Public Health - Integrating Sunshine, Supplements and Measurement for Optimal Health 2014 San Diego 54 minutes

Highlights (By GrassrootsHealth)

  • In 1933 common medicine recognized 133 different conditions that were treated by sunlight.

  • Sun exposure is healthy! (Watch this video to understand how the sun works and not burn.)

  • In the winter the sun is at too low of an angle over most of the US (above Los Angeles/Atlanta) and all of Canada for us to produce vitamin D from sun exposure.

  • Cats don't make vitamin D.

  • Reptiles have sun lamps for their health.

  • Diet alone won't provide enough vitamin D to become vitamin D sufficient.

  • Sunscreen reduces vitamin D production by 98%.

  • Black (dark) skin pigment needs 5-10 times more sun exposure than Caucasian (light) skin pigment to produce the same amount of vitamin D.

Some images from the video - captured by VitaminDWiki

Heliotherapy

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Heliotherapy had been used for 165 diseases

Many of which vitamin D has been found to help

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Other chemicals made from sun - ongoing research as to what they do

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Beta-endorphin feel good

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Hypertension associated with latitude

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UVB lowers hypertension

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NO also produced by sun and also helps in many ways

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ACTH produced by sun AND ACTH is used to treat MS

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metanocortins (ACTH) have many health benefits

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Immune system helped by UVA as well

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See also VitaminDWiki

Holick Podcast at Vitamin D Council Feb 2015

Vitamin D Podcast 06: Dr. Michael Holick

Notes by VitaminDWiki

  • 291 genes activated - in just the white blood cells - unknown in other portions of the body
    • Grant request in process to update the test: using 600 IU, 4,000 IU and 10,000 IU

  • Many of the genes were activated above the 20 ng level recommended by the IoM

  • 3,000 IU daily – his general recommendation

    •      (Confusion 50,000 IU twice a week? Does not compute)

  • Many benefits of sunlight over and above the benefits of vitamin D – see video

  • Nitic oxide allows you to relax

  • Holick testified in two cases of child abuse/broken bones.

    • He has been involved in 20 cases
    • Black moms so low during pregnancy that unlikely that infant could have gotten normal bone density. During the birthing process the ribs could fracture. Rickets – lucer zones (sp?) can look like fractures in children with rickets. Not really fractures. Dr. Holick won both cases = child given back to parents.
  • Lax joints – person feels that they can bend joints backward. This can lead to osteo problems later in life.
    • EDS – underdiagnosed. Perhaps lots of people in Yoga. Estimated 1 in 1,000 have EDS
    • EDS = Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
    •     Wikipedia: People who suffer from EDS are often misdiagnosed with hypochondriasis, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, and other conditions
    • EDS – also have bone fractures – often unaware of them.
  • His day: start 3AM. Clinic starting 8AM,
    • Has setup 4 biomedical companies, and 2 recently
    • About 60% of his day involves vitamin D

  • He suspects that genes are turned on/off due to visible light in the body. Visible light can get to the heart, etc. There can be whole systems of interactions like vitamin D system that we are not aware of.

  • He suspects that < 10% of the molecules in the blood have been identified

  • Sunlight is important, We feel better in sunlight

  • People can become addicted to sugar, cigarettes, suntan parlors, – lots of things. But most tanners are not addicted.

  • Holick is against the high pressure tanning beds (which are also more expensive) which have only UVA – all downside, no health upside.

    • If use a tanning bed totally cover face and use only about 50% of the suggested session time

  • No need to test vitamin D – just supplement.

  • Probable 10,000 IU upper limit – unless extenuating circumstance like obesity

Critics blast BU doctor for child abuse defense March 2015

Other professionals.wonder if EDS is the cause

Short url = http://is.gd/HolickDec2014