Getting Vitamin D from the Sun WITHOUT the Skin Cancer

So how do you get your vitamin d from the sun without getting skin cancer ?

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I mean , I'm getting a lot of feedback from some of these videos , and a lot of people are just afraid of the sun because it causes cancer and wrinkles and photoaging , and it's terrible for your health , so you should stay out of the sun .

Yet on the flip side , they want the vitamin d , yet they don't wanna take vitamin d supplements .

Now you have to realize that we have evolved with exposure to the sun for a very , very long time .

Our bodies have adapted to it .

Our bodies have even created natural filters to prevent this radiation from the sun , specifically UV radiation , and then skin protection is a pigment .

It's called melanin .

And so melanin actually blocks the UV radiation damage from your skin .

So depending on the color of your skin , whether you have darker skin , where you have more melanin or less melanin , you're gonna have lighter skin , it will then relate to how much filtering of this UV you have , or how much ultraviolet radiation will pass through your skin and create problems .

Now it is true that when you expose your skin to sun and you burn your skin , okay , that can increase your risk of getting skin cancer .

If you're chronically exposed to ultraviolet radiation , it can diminish your vitamin a levels , It can alter your DNA .

It can create a lot of , free radical damage .

But what's interesting is if you get sun without sunburn , you can decrease your risk of getting cancer .

So normally what happens is you have this ultraviolet radiation , it's UVB , okay , specifically , and it actually hits your skin .

And then when it hits your skin , it interacts with cholesterol .

Another thing that people associate being really bad because it causes heart attacks and clogging of your arteries and strokes , etcetera .

Without that cholesterol , you cannot make vitamin D .

You cannot make cell membranes .

A good portion of the brain is cholesterol .

All of your sex hormones , okay , like testosterone , estrogen , progesterone , and even cortisol are made from cholesterol , and without that , you can't make those hormones .

Think about how many side effects you could have from that .

Without cholesterol , you can't make bile that helps you extract the fat soluble vitamins with digestion .

And without cholesterol , you can't make the cellular membranes and you definitely can't make vitamin D , so we need enough cholesterol .

This is why , like for example , statin drugs or being on a low fat diet can inhibit your production of vitamin d .

That UV hits your skin , converts the cholesterol into vitamin d , which then becomes activated through your kidney and your liver .

And then when you have the active form of vitamin d , it can produce all the wonderful effects .

But of course , some people freak out if you even mention taking vitamin D over 2,000 IUs .

I mean , that's probably because the RDAs are roughly like 600 IUs , which are completely a joke because those RDAs or vitamin D requirements were created long ago when we didn't have all the new information about what vitamin D does to our immune system .

It's basically the bare bones amount of vitamin d you would need to prevent osteoporosis , but they didn't take in consideration , for example , obesity , metabolic syndrome , your age , etcetera , etcetera .

And just as a side note , vitamin d toxicity is extremely rare .

You would have to take 100 of 1,000 of international units of vitamin d over months to create a vitamin D toxicity , and the real big side effect is kidney stones .

But if you drink 2 and a half liters of fluid a day , that's gonna protect you against kidney stones .

19,000 different genes in your body require vitamin d .

Vitamin d is necessary for your immune system to prevent autoimmune disease , depression , viral infections , especially the cytokine storm .

Every part of the immune system has receptors for vitamin d , and it just so happens that 69% of the population doesn't have enough vitamin d .

Now if you're somewhat of a healthy person and you're young , okay , and you don't have metabolic syndrome , you're not overweight , Let's say you're in your bathing suit and you expose your skin to about 30 minutes of sun , okay , peak sun , and you don't live in the northern area .

You live kind of in the South .

If you're white , you'll get about 50,000 IUs of vitamin D .

If you're tanned , you'll get about 20,000 IUs and if you have darker skin , you'll get about 8,000 IUs .

But there are so many other variables that can inhibit your , vitamin d absorption .

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The time of the year , where you live as far as the latitude of where the sun is in relationship to the equator .

But getting back to the purpose of this video , how do you protect against the sun without the negatives of the sun ?

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So here are some things that you can do .

Consume enough foods with vitamin c because the more antioxidants you have in your skin , the more you're gonna protect against this damage from UV radiation , not just UVB , but the other types of ultraviolet radiation .

So vitamin C is essential .

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Vitamin E is really key , and there are certain vitamins that you don't wanna let yourself become deficient to help you repair all the DNA damage that can occur from various things , especially UV radiation .

In fact , if you're deficient in the following micronutrients , that alone can leave you very vulnerable to getting DNA damage , not only from the UV radiation , but from other things as well .

So , folate , okay , folate , very , very important .

You get that from things like leafy greens .

The next nutrient would be niacin .

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You can get that from pretty much any food .

It's in beef , it's in animal protein , it's in vegetables , it's in nuts , it's in a lot of different places .

Magnesium .

K .

Very , very important for protection and repair against DNA damage .

You get magnesium from leafy greens .

It's in the chlorophyll .

Now also when you do fasting , you can increase your own antioxidants and that will protect your skin as well .

And also being on a low carb diet , very , very important .

Now there's also a very good sunblock that you can use if you're gonna be out in the sun a lot .

It's a do it yourself , homemade , sunblocker .

Use coconut oil , a fourth of a cup .

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Olive oil , a fourth of a cup .

Sesame seed oil , a fourth of a cup .

And zinc oxide , the non nano version , 2 tablespoons .

And by the way , sesame seed oil alone can block UV radiation by 30% .

Coconut oil and olive oil can block it by 20% .

And so you make this combination with everything , you mix it up , and you apply it to your skin .

It's so much better than the commercial versions because of all the additional chemicals they use .

Now one last really important point .

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UV radiation is countered by infrared radiation .

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And they both come from the same thing , the sun .

And so when you're getting the sun , you're also getting infrared , but you're probably gonna get a better ratio of more infrared versus UV if you get sun exposure earlier in the day and later in the day versus the peak , like noon , where the sun is at its peak and you're gonna get the most UV radiation .

But a sunrise and a sunset , you're getting infrared , it's going right through your clothing , it goes deep and it penetrates in your body , and it makes melatonin , which is different than your melatonin in your pineal gland .

It's sub cellular , okay ?

It's in other places , and it's stimulated by infrared , which is quite fascinating because you also make melatonin with darkness .

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So by being exposed to the sun , you can make this melatonin , which is the most powerful antioxidant that can protect you against this harmful UV .

So even though your risk for , skin cancer goes up by 2 x by getting sunburn .

If you get your sun exposure without the burn , you decrease the risk of getting skin cancer .

And the next most important video you should watch would be the one on that very topic , Malatangan , check it out .