The sunshine vitamin! Boy, that sounds so good. There are no pills to pop, no liquid to drink to get this supplement. Don’t you wish all vitamins were so easy to get into your system?
Exposure to sunlight is truly one of the most powerful healing therapies in the world, far better than the best efforts of today’s so-called “advanced medicine.” Sunlight is the best source of vitamin D, because exposure to sunlight does not cause vitamin D toxicity, and 10 minutes of sun on the hands and face provides enough vitamin D to meet the daily value.
Exposure to sunlight is the only reliable way to make vitamin D in your own body. The body automatically regulates the amount of vitamin D it makes from sunlight, and there is the added benefit of cholesterol control, bone health, and the prevention of autoimmune diseases, cancers, and cardiovascular disease. Humans produce 90 percent of their vitamin D naturally through sun exposure of the skin.
Now I’m going to get a little technical (get ready, I don’t do this often). Vitamin D is a group of fat-soluble prohormones, whose two main forms are vitamin D2 (or ergocalciferol) and vitamin D3 (or cholecalciferol). Vitamin D3 is produced in skin exposed to sunlight, specifically ultraviolet B radiation. This vitamin plays an important role in the maintenance of organ systems. It affects the immune system by promoting phagocytosis, antitumor activity, and immunomodulatory functions.
Vitamin D deficiency may be due to inadequate exposure to sunlight, disorders that limit its absorption, conditions that prevent the conversion of vitamin D into active metabolites, such as liver or kidney disorders, or, rarely, a number of inherited disorders . Vitamin D regulates the expression of genes associated with cancers and autoimmune diseases by controlling the activation of the vitamin D receptor (VDR), a type 1 nuclear receptor and DNA transcription factor.
Vitamin D malnutrition may also be linked to increased susceptibility to various chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, tuberculosis, cancer, periodontal disease, multiple sclerosis, chronic pain, depression, schizophrenia, seasonal affective disorder, peripheral arterial disease, and various autoimmune diseases including type 1 diabetes.
(Back to non-tech) So you can see how important vitamin D is to your system. You can also see how easy it is to get vitamin D.
So I guess the big question is… What are you waiting for? Go get some sun!
