Why Sunlight Deficiency is as
Deadly as Smoking
By Sayer Ji, April 6th 2016
A groundbreaking new study published in the
Journal of Internal Medicine has revealed something absolutely
amazing about the role of the sun in human health: a deficiency
of sunlight could be as harmful to human health as smoking cigarettes.
The new study
titled, "Avoidance
of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death: a
competing risk analysis of the Melanoma in Southern Sweden cohort,"
was conducted by Swedish researchers on a population of almost
30,000 women. They assessed the differences in sun exposure as
a risk factor for all-cause mortality, within a prospective 20-year
follow up of the Melanoma in Southern Sweden (MISS) cohort. The
women were aged 25-64 years at the start of the study and recruited
from 1990 to 1992. When their sun exposure habits were analyzed
using modern survival statistics they discovered several things.
First:
"Women
with active sun exposure habits were mainly at a lower risk
of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and noncancer/non-CVD death
as compared to those who avoided sun exposure."
Second:
"As
a result of their increased survival, the relative contribution
of cancer death increased in these women."
This finding
may be a bit tricky to understand, so let's look at it a little
closer.
Because cancer
risk increases along with biological age, the longer you live,
the higher your cancer risk will be. Therefore, because increased
sunlight exposure actually increases your longevity, it will also
appear to increase your risk of cancer. But this does not necessarily
mean that sunlight is intrinsically "carcinogenic,"
which is commonly assumed.
Because heart
disease is #1 killer in the developed world, and since sunlight
reduces this most common cause of premature death, even if it
increases the risk of the #2 most common cause of death (cancer),
the net effect of sunlight exposure is that you will still live
longer, which helps to contextualize and neutralize the "increased
cancer risk" often observed. Keep in mind, as well, that
a huge number of cancers are overdiagnosed and overtreated, without
sufficient acknowledgement by the medical establishment, whose
culpability is rarely addressed. These "cancers" greatly
inflate the statistics. With millions of so-called early stage
cancers like these especially breast, prostate, thyroid,
lung, and ovarian being wrongly diagnosed and treated,
the complexity of the topic makes determining the role of sunlight
exposure and cancer risk all the more difficult to ascertain.
Moving on,
the point about the longevity promoting properties of sunlight
are driven home strongly by the third major observation:
"Nonsmokers
who avoided sun exposure had a life expectancy similar to smokers
in the highest sun exposure group, indicating that avoidance
of sun exposure is a risk factor for death of a similar magnitude
as smoking."
This is a
powerful finding with profound implications. To say that "avoidance
of sun exposure is a risk factor for death of a similar magnitude
as smoking," is to point out that sunlight exposure, rather
than being the constant lethal threat it is perceived to be, warranting
the slathering on all over the body of synthetic sunscreens virtually
guaranteed to cause harm from toxicant exposure, is essential
to our health. In fact, according to the CDC, smoking is responsible
for 6 million unnecessary deaths a year, and the "overall
mortality among both male and female smokers in the United States
is about three times higher than that among similar people who
never smoked." And so, sunlight exposure may be so powerful
an essential and necessary ingredient in human health that it
might be considered medically unethical not to provide access
to it, or to advise more routine exposure to it.
The fourth
and final observation of the study was that:
"Compared
to the highest sun exposure group, life expectancy of avoiders
of sun exposure was reduced by 0.6-2.1 years."
Sunlight
Attains its Former Status as an Indispensable Component of Health
While we
can say that sunlight deficiency may contribute to lethal outcomes
on par with smoking, we can rephrase the information positively
by affirming that the sun and its light may be as important to
human health as is clean food or water. In fact, compelling new
research suggests that energy from the sun drives the cellular
bioenergetics of the biomachinery of our bodies through non-ATP
dependent processes. Consider the work of Gerald Pollack, PhD,
author of the "The 4th Phase of Water" (see video
below), who explains how infrared energy of the sun charges up
the water molecules within our body (99% of the molecules in our
bodies in number are water) like trillions of molecular batteries.
A
FASCINATING TED TALK ABOUT WATER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-T7tCMUDXU
When pertaining
to cardiovascular health, sunlight energy in the form of infrared
charged water molecules supports the heart's job of pumping the
blood throughout the blood vessels by producing a form of highly
structured and energized water known as Exclusion Zone water,
or EZ water, and which may actually provide over 99.9% of the
biomechanical energy needed to push the 1.2-1.5 gallons of blood
in the average adult body through the literally thousands of miles
of blood vessels. Provocative new research also suggests the body
contains a variety of photoacceptors/chromophores (e.g. cytochrome
C oxidase) capable of accepting and utilizing sunlight to generate
so-called "extra synthesis" of ATP. Additionally, melanin
may absorb a wide range of the Sun's electromagnetic spectrum,
converting it into useful energy and perhaps also biologically
important information, even perhaps taking harmful gamma radiation
and turning it into biologically useful energy. Even something
as commonplace in the human diet as chlorophyll has recently been
found to act as a means to enhance the light-harvesting properties
of animal cells. In fact, we reported recently on a study that
found enhanced ATP production (without the expected concomitant
uptick in reactive oxygen species production) through intermediary
of chlorophyll metabolites that end up in the mitochondria of
our cells following microbiome-mediated digestive processes.
Natural health
advocates have sung the praises of sunlight for health since time
immemorial. While in modern times, sunlight-phobia is omnipresent,
with parents of especially lighter skinned ethnicities forcing
their children to don space-suit level all body protective gear,
along with spraying or slathering them with extremely toxic petrochemical
derivatives and nanoparticle metals with potentially cancer-promoting
properties, there is a growing appreciation that we need the sun
as both a form of food, energy and information.
It's, of
course, not all about vitamin D. To reduce the perceived health
benefits of sunlight to this hormone like compound is as reductionistic
as saying an orange's health benefits are solely dependent on
and reducible to the molecular scaffolding of atoms that comprise
the chemical skeleton of the ascorbic acid molecule. We are beginning
to learn that certain wavelengths of sunlight activate a wide
range of ancient, hard-wired genetic and epigenetic programs,
relevant to all of our body's systems. The wavelengths of light
that occur at sunset, for instance, may have been so important
to our evolution as a species that our very hairlessness, and
our massive brains may not have evolved without daily exposure
to them, for hundreds of thousands and even millions of years.
This phenomena, also known as biophotomodulation, opens up a radically
new perspective on the role of the sun in human health and disease.
If sunlight deficiency is really as deadly as actively smoking
cigarettes, it could be said that those who do not experience
regular natural light exposure are no longer truly human, or capable
of experiencing the optimal expression of their biological, mental,
and spiritual blueprint. A fundamental right, and health practice,
would be daily outdoors exposure. How many of us have considered
the state of office workers, institutionalized educational systems
without windows, night shift work, and prisons? Sunlight deprivation,
in light of these new findings, could be considered a significant
violation of human health rights.
This new
study may pave the way for a deeper understanding of what humans
need to be truly healthy, with sunlight deficiency being a prime
example of what is most wrong about our modern incarnation as
a primarily indoors focused creature, leading to our physical
and psychospiritual degeneration. As new models of cellular bioenergetics
emerge, taking into account the ability of the body to directly
or indirectly harvest the various light wavelengths of the sun,
direct daily exposure to sunlight may be looked upon as at least
as an important step as "taking your vitamins," or exercising,
for maintaining our health. Conversely, sunlight deficiency and/or
deprivation will likely be viewed to be as dangerous or as lethal
as smoking.
Original article at
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/why-sunlight-deficiency-deadly-smoking-1
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