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[b]Fifteen Facts You Probably Never Knew About Vitamin D and Sunlight Exposure[/b]:
(Compiled by Mike Adams, based on an interview with Dr. Michael Holick, author, The UV Advantage)
Vitamin D prevents osteoporosis, depression, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and even effects diabetes and 
obesity. Vitamin D is perhaps the single most underrated nutrient in the world of nutrition. That’s probably 
because it’s free: your body makes it when sunlight touches your skin. Drug companies can’t sell you 
sunlight, so there’s no promotion of its health benefits. Truth is, most people don’t know the real story on 
vitamin D and health. So here’s an overview taken from an interview between Mike Adams and Dr. Michael 
Holick.
1. Vitamin D is produced by your skin in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation from natural 
sunlight. 
2. The healing rays of natural sunlight (that generate vitamin D in your skin) cannot penetrate glass. 
So you don’t generate vitamin D when sitting in your car or home. 
3. It is nearly impossible to get adequate amounts of vitamin D from your diet. Sunlight exposure is 
the only reliable way to generate vitamin D in your own body. 
4. A person would have to drink ten tall glasses of vitamin D fortified milk each day just to get minimum 
levels of vitamin D into their diet. 
5. The further you live from the equator, the longer exposure you need to the sun in order to generate 
vitamin D. Canada, the UK and most U.S. states are far from the equator. 
6. People with dark skin pigmentation may need 20 - 30 times as much exposure to sunlight as fairskinned people to generate the same amount of vitamin D. That’s why prostate cancer is epidemic 
among black men -- it’s a simple, but widespread, sunlight deficiency. 
7. Sufficient levels of vitamin D are crucial for calcium absorption in your intestines. Without sufficient 
vitamin D, your body cannot absorb calcium, rendering calcium supplements useless. 
8. Chronic vitamin D deficiency cannot be reversed overnight: it takes months of vitamin D 
supplementation and sunlight exposure to rebuild the body’s bones and nervous system. 
9. Even weak sunscreens (SPF=8) block your body’s ability to generate vitamin D by 95%. This is how 
sunscreen products actually cause disease -- by creating a critical vitamin deficiency in the body. 
10. It is impossible to generate too much vitamin D in your body from sunlight exposure: your body will 
self-regulate and only generate what it needs. 
11. If it hurts to press firmly on your sternum, you may be suffering from chronic vitamin D deficiency 
right now. 
12. Vitamin D is “activated” in your body by your kidneys and liver before it can be used. 
13. Having kidney disease or liver damage can greatly impair your body’s ability to activate circulating 
vitamin D. 
14. The sunscreen industry doesn’t want you to know that your body actually needs sunlight exposure 
because that realization would mean lower sales of sunscreen products. 
15. Even though vitamin D is one of the most powerful healing chemicals in your body, your body 
makes it absolutely free. No prescription required.
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Original Message Taking vitamin D while still young may be good for the body in the long run. Results from a study conducted by the University of Zurich have confirmed that sufficient amounts of vitamin D taken consistently are necessary to maintain bone health.

Many people believe that maintaining healthy eating habits is enough, but only few foods naturally contain significant levels of vitamin D. According to Dr. Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari, a faculty of UZH, in order to get adequate levels of vitamin D through diet alone, two servings of fatty fish like salmon or mackerel would have to be consumed every day. It is thus necessary to increase vitamin D levels in the body through sufficient sun exposure and supplementation in order to use the sunshine vitamin's full potential for maintaining proper body functioning.

This misconception about maintaining D levels through diet does have a degree of ground since vitamin D is not a stand alone vitamin. To perform many functions, vitamin D works in cooperation with other vitamins like magnesium, which can be found in leafy green vegetables such as spinach. This unique characteristic of vitamin D has contributed to the management of many chronic illnesses.

The many faces of vitamin D

Decades ago, health care professionals thought vitamin D was only good for keeping healthy bones and teeth. Recent advances in science, however, have put this vitamin in the spotlight by revealing its multifaceted role in the proper functioning of the human body and its ability to lower the risk of illnesses not formerly associated with it.

Despite the recent revelations about the potential of vitamin D, it appears that not everyone appreciates this discovery. The current lifestyle of working indoors has contributed to the growing number of vitamin D deficiency cases worldwide. This is compounded by the fact that not everyone is aware that he or she may be vitamin D deficient.

Learn more: [link to www.naturalnews.com]

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