Posted by Moderator on April 4, 2014 at 12:38pm
What is a person to do when you have some doctors saying we all need to get back out into the sun on the one hand while on the other hand a lot of other doctors are saying we all need to avoid the sun to reduce the risk of skin cancer? Is it a simple case of who’s right and who’s wrong?
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Posted by Moderator on March 25, 2014 at 12:15pm
If you’ve read many of the articles on this site, you know we like to keep up with all the different correlations, links and associations that come up between vitamin D and whole lot of diseases and medical conditions.
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Posted by Moderator on March 24, 2014 at 1:08pm
When you look over the many articles on this site, you’ll notice that we are pretty strong advocates of getting your vitamin D from good old-fashioned sunshine.
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Posted by Moderator on March 19, 2014 at 8:32am
Vitamin D fans have been cheering about the recent news that elevated vitamin D levels have been correlated to increased survival rates among breast cancer patients, but there’s more happening with vitamin D and various cancers that deserves greater attention. Here’s D’story:
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Posted by Moderator on March 15, 2014 at 10:50am
In our efforts to strike the right balance between getting enough sunshine to enjoy its many health benefits such as adequate levels of vitamin D while at the same time protecting ourselves from unacceptable levels of skin cancer risk, it became clear that we had to weigh in on some of the problems that exist with sunscreens.
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Posted by Moderator on March 15, 2014 at 10:42am
As you know, we take not only a pro-vitamin D stance on this website, we also believe that the very best and most natural way to get your vitamin D is from exposure to just the right amount of the right wavelengths of solar UVB radiation.
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Posted by Moderator on March 7, 2014 at 9:36am
What is perhaps most important about this article is that it comes from the research of a dermatologist, Richard Weller. This is a guy who by his own admission says, “My day job is saying to people, ‘You've got skin cancer, it's caused by sunlight, don't go in the sun.’” And yet he’s also saying we need sunshine, and for reasons that are still being figure out.
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Posted by Moderator on March 7, 2014 at 9:09am
We always feel the need to begin any pro-sunshine article with the caveat that we do know that too much sun can lead to skin cancer. And we also feel that complete avoidance of the sun is a really bad idea, not just for the sake of preventing vitamin D deficiency, but because sunlight has some really great benefits for us.
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Posted by Moderator on March 5, 2014 at 2:30pm
This won’t be the first time you’ve seen an article about the sometimes hostile relation between dermatologists and vitamin D advocates on this forum, and it probably won’t be the last. These are important issues, and we intend to explore every facet of them to the fullest extent possible.
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