Why Using Sunscreen Leads To Mental Health Disorders and Critical Illness

Why Using Sunscreen Leads To Mental Health Disorders and Critical Illness

Mainstream
science is absolutely addicted to demonizing the sun and blaming its
beautiful rays as the primary cause of skin cancer. Despite our presence
on Earth for countless millennia and the fact that people closest to
the equator have the lowest incidence of skin cancer, the sun is always
cast as the culprit. Worse yet is people still fall for this nonsense,
slather on the sunscreen in hopes to protect against a non-existent foe.
If the sun was really that harmful, we'd all be dead long ago.
Meanwhile, a growing body of evidence shows that blocking the sun's
rays from reaching our skin dramatically influences our optimal vitamin D
levels, leading to higher mortality, critical illness, mental health
disorders and ironically, cancer itself.



The sun not only increases beneficial levels of critical
vitamin D in the body, but it is responsible for a diversity of
biological mechanisms controlling everything from hormones to
behavior.

Exposure to ultraviolet B radiation in sunlight provides the
mechanism for more than 90% of the vitamin D production in most
individuals. The widespread use of sunscreens, particularly those with
high sun protection factors (SPF), may lead to a significant decrease
in solar-induced previtamin D3 in the skin, resulting in a vitamin D
level which is insufficient for protection against a wide range of
diseases.

Exposure to sunlight and ultraviolet light has been repeatedly
shown to NOT be the cause of skin cancer.
Scientists from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
reported UVA exposure is unlikely to have contributed to the rise in the incidence of melanoma over the past 30 years.

The idea that sunscreen prevents cancer is also a myth
promoted by pharmaceutical companies, conventional medicine and the
mainstream media for one purpose...profit. The sunscreen industry
makes money by selling lotion products that
actually contain cancer-causing chemicals. It then
donates a portion of that money to the cancer
industry through non-profit groups like Cancer
Societies which, in turn, run heart-breaking public service
ads urging people to use sunscreen to "prevent cancer."

Numerous studies have linked vitamin D levels to a reduction
in the risk of certain cancers, including breast cancer, but much
debate has focused on the means to boost vitamin D levels --
supplements or sunlight.

Spending an average of three hours a day exposed to sunlight can slash the risk of breast cancer by up to 50 percent.

People with the highest levels of vitamin D have the lowest risk of
skin cancer. Sure, you can get some of that from a pill...but
historically, most people have gotten their D straight from the
source: the sun, and protecting yourself from it 100 years ago with
clothing, cream or anything would likely have been viewed as its own
mental health disorder.

A new study from University College London in the UK found that people
with higher vitamin D levels had a 43% lower risk of depression,
compared to people with vitamin D lower levels.

Results published in Clinical Nutrition also indicated
that the higher vitamin D levels were associated with a 67% lower risk
of panic, compared to the lower levels.

"The high burden of mental and behavioral disorders and concurrent
high prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency (<75nmol/l) worldwide (29)
highlight the potential importance of our findings," wrote the
researchers, led by Jane Maddock from the UCL Institute of Child Health.

"Our results suggest that low 25(OH)D is associated with
higher prevalence of depression and panic and that 25(OH)D is modestly
and non-linearly associated with subsequent depressive symptoms."

Data from the third US National Health and Nutrition
Examination Survey revealed that people with vitamin D deficiency were
at an 85% increased risk of having current depressive episodes, compared
with people with sufficient levels (International Archives of Medicine ,
2010, 3:29 doi:10.1186/1755-7682-3-29.


A review by Bruce Ames and Joyce McCann from the Children's Hospital
and Research Center Oakland highlighted the role of the vitamin in
maintaining brain health, noting the wide distribution of vitamin D
receptors throughout the brain.

According to the review (FASEB Journal, Vol.22, pp.
982-1001), the vitamin has been reported to affect proteins in the brain
known to be directly involved in learning and memory, motor control,
and possibly even maternal and social behavior. Depression in the
elderly is highly prevalent and can increase the risk of medical
illnesses, worsen the outcome of other medical illnesses, and may
increase mortality.

A recent study
-- published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition -- revealed
that adults with low vitamin D levels have a 30% greater risk of death
than people who had higher levels. New research suggests that
children are also likely to experience illness with low vitamin D
levels.

Children with serious and critical illnesses are more likely to be ill
for longer, and experience more severe illness if they are deficient
in vitamin D, according to the findings of two new research papers.

The studies -- both published in Pediatrics -- reveal that
40% of children admitted into a hospital's paediatric intensive care
unit (PICU) over a 12-month period were deficient in the sunshine
vitamin, and that deficiency is directly associated with longer
hospital stays and more severe illness.

Low levels of vitamin D also doubles the risk of stroke according to a report by researchers at Johns Hopkins.


Researchers at McGill University discovered a molecular basis for the cancer preventive effects of vitamin D, whereby its active form essentially shuts down cancer cells.

The team, led by
McGill professors John White and David Goltzman, of the Faculty of
Medicine’s Department of Physiology, discovered that the active form
of vitamin D acts by several mechanisms to inhibit both the
production and function of the protein cMYC. cMYC drives cell division
and is active at elevated levels in more than half of all cancers.
Their results are published in the latest edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine also
showed that older adults who don't get enough vitamin D --
either from their diets or exposure to the sun -- may be at increased risk for poor physical performance and disability.

With there overwhelming evidence supporting the benefits of
direct exposure to the sun and optimal vitamin D levels, perhaps we
should start questioning why the media and conventional science is so
adamant about telling us to cover up.

Source:-
http://preventdisease.com/news/13/012313_Why-Using-Sunscreen-Leads-To-Mental-Health-Disorders-and-Critical-Illness.shtml