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Good health can be maintained and many disease conditions alleviated with adequate exposure to full-spectrum light.

ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT: MYTHS AND FACTS

UV intensity is now forecast in population centers daily.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggests that when outdoors we should "protect ourselves against ultraviolet light whenever we can see our shadow".
And many physicians give their patients the same warning. This is terrible advice.
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As a result of the EPA’s kind of advice, ... we slather our skin with sunscreen for even brief sun exposure.
People who engage in these practices are ruining their disposition and health.

The phobia arose after investigators anaesthetized animals, propped their eyes open and shined intense UV light into them; this damaged their retinas.
Excessive exposure to one kind of ultraviolet (shorter-wave, germicidal UVC) can damage tissue.

But the EPA makes the ridiculous leap from that truth to the conclusion that we should avoid all UVC.

UVC is found in tanning salons and halogen lamps.
In fact, the trace amounts of UV radiation in natural daylight are required for physical and mental health, civilized behavior, muscle strength, energy and learning.

Sunlight, in moderation, improves immunity and stimulates our metabolism while decreasing food craving, and increases our intelligence.
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A paper published in the British Journal of Cancer shows that from 1957 to 1984 the incidence of malignant melanoma in Norway increased by 350 per cent for men and 440 per cent for women.
During the same period there was no change in ozone levels over Norway, nor any significant change in annual exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the Sun
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"What is clear, however, is that there is a great deal of ill-informed comment on the subject of ozone depletion and, for that matter, sunbathing.
Should depletion of the ozone layer ever become a cause for real concern, then some people might develop cancer who might not have, had there been no depletion, but until this happens there is much more to be gained from investigating the real causes of skin cancer and encouraging safe sunbathing than in being preoccupied with the state of the Earth’s upper atmosphere and blaming everything on the Sun.
Diet and lifestyle play a far more significant part in the genesis of cancer than is currently recognized.
The same can also be said about another condition that is supposed to be on the increase because of ozone depletion--that of senile cataract."

Note that even low exposure to UVB significantly increases the risk of cataracts, but only with the consumption of a Western junk food diet rich in unsaturated fats and their oxidized products.
Those who consume a more sensible diet, and supplement it with vitamins C and E, do not get cataracts even from lengthy sun exposure.

PHOTOBIOLOGY
Starting from a high-school hobby of time-lapse photography, the late John N. Ott, DScHon, founded the new science of photobiology.
He was active into his tenth decade.

Dr Ott’s last book, one of many publications, is Light, Radiation and You:
How to Stay Healthy (1990). In it he wrote:

"Mankind adapted to the full range of the solar spectrum, and artificial distortions of that spectrum--malillumination, a condition analogous to malnutrition, may have biologic effects."

In an interview published in 1991, he noted:

"There are neurochemical channels from the retina to the pineal and pituitary glands, the master glands of the whole endocrine system that controls the production and release of hormones.
This regulates your body chemistry and its growth, all organs of your body, including your brain, and how they function."

The critical reader will ask: where are the controlled, scientific tests supporting Dr Ott’s statements?
The answer to that question is: who can make money promoting sunlight?

SIDEBAR
Two hours of bright light in the evening can sometimes cure symptoms such as weight gain, depression, carbohydrate craving, social withdrawal, fatigue and irritability.

I. Ultraviolet Deprivation Health Effects
First, let’s consider the health effects of ultraviolet deprivation.

Indoor Lighting and Melanoma
Malignant melanoma is often alarmingly but wrongly blamed on sun exposure.
The dangerous kind, called skin cancer, is ultimately fatal if not corrected.
A study by the US Navy found the most melanoma in people who worked indoors all the time.
Those who worked both outdoors and indoors some of the time had the lowest incidence.
Also, most melanomas appeared on parts of the body that are seldom exposed to sunlight.
The inference is that both very high and very low exposures to UV light can be harmful--and moderate exposure is healthful.

Sunscreens and Melanoma
Sunscreens block out only UVA and UVB, which we all need in trace amounts, but not the potentially dangerous, germicidal UVC.
No commercial sunscreens have been proved safe.
Their chemicals penetrate the skin into the circulation and add to the burden of toxins to be detoxified.
Commercial sunscreens increase the risk of melanoma by causing mutations when the cells’ chromosomes interact with the chemicals and the light.
Natural sunscreens, as well as commercial ones, curtail needed uptake of vitamin D3 from UVB, increasing the risk of the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.

Moreover, Lita Lee, PhD, notes:

"Mounting evidence indicates that many of them [sunscreens] contain carcinogens and that the rise of skin cancers parallels the increase in sunscreen usage.
The only sunscreen I recommend is coconut oil, although, believe me, you cannot slather this oil on your skin and bake in the sun all day.
Adding a little iodine to the coconut oil for the first week of summer gives added protection; however, do not use the iodine for more than a week, as continued use will inhibit your thyroid function. In my opinion, the only other safe (non-carcinogenic) sunscreen would be one containing titanium dioxide."

Fluorescent Lighting and Melanoma
A study published in the prestigious medical journal Lancet and a Russian study found that fluorescent light rather than sunlight promotes melanoma, proportionately to the time of exposure.
In the Lancet study, among a sample of nearly 900 women, those who worked indoors under fluorescent lighting had 2.l times higher melanoma risk (95% confidence interval, CI, 1.32 to 3.32) than others.
Among women exposed for 20 years or more, the relative risk (RR) was 2.6 (95% CI, 1.2 to 5.9).
Relative risks were lower in women who had been most heavily exposed to sunlight, both playing outdoors as children and sunbathing as adults.
In a smaller sample of men, the RR for fluorescent lights with 10 or more years’ exposure was 4.4; and for those who had spent the least time in the sun while children, the RR was 7.3.

And so we see that lengthy exposure to full-spectrum sunlight, including trace UVC, partially "immunized" both men and women against later development of melanoma.
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All this thoroughly explodes the claim that sun exposure causes malignant melanoma.

In the 19 years since publication of Beral’s carefully researched article in the Lancet, no one has refuted the finding.
But many ignore it and could make more money if the article and its information would simply go away.

Why do fluorescent lights cause melanoma? "Emissions from such light extend into the potentially carcinogenic range."

Dr Ott found that, specifically, the cathodes located at the ends of the light tubes emit X-rays and other electromagnetic pollution.
Plants living under the central portion of long fluorescent light tubes grow normally; but when placed close to the ends of the tubes, their growth is abnormal and stunted. Laboratory animals placed in a cage close to the ends of these light tubes become aggressive and cannibalistic.

Dr Ott also found that the light from fluorescent tubes, as well as TV sets and computer terminals, causes red blood cells to clump together after prolonged exposure. This reduces alertness, promotes a tired feeling and increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.
But when the ends of the light tubes are shielded with lead and traces of UV are added to the light, plants and animals under them grow and function normally.
And so wrapping the ends of fluorescent light tubes with lead tape, says Dr Ott, is fully as important as full-spectrum light itself.

Melanoma can also result from excessive exposure to sunlamps; their rays and those from bright halogen lights include some of the dangerous UVC.
If users of sunlamps consume a junk diet, their risk of melanoma will be increased.
Halogen lamps are also a serious fire hazard if they fall over or if inflammable material touches the extremely hot bulb.

SIDEBAR
Valdemar Valerian (../esp_autor_valvalerian.htm), PhD, and his Leading Edge Research Group (http://www.trufax.org/welcomemsie.html),
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Chlorination and Melanoma
Drinking and swimming in chlorinated water can also cause malignant melanoma.
Sodium hypochlorite, used in chlorination of water for swimming pools, is mutagenic in the Ames test and other mutagenicity tests.
Redheads and blonds are disproportionately melanoma-prone; their skin contains a relative excess of pheomelanins compared to darker people.

Franz H. Rampen and his associates in The Netherlands state that the worldwide pollution of rivers and oceans and the chlorination of swimming pool water have promoted an increase in melanoma.

Another major factor in the increase in reported incidence of melanoma has been physicians’ continually relaxing their standards for what constitutes melanoma.

Synthetic Hormones and Melanoma
What about oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy (HRT)?
Melanomas have increased sharply among women in the principal Pill-taking countries of Australia, America and in Europe.
In the Walnut Creek (California) study, all the women who developed melanomas under the age of 40 had used the Pill.
By 1981, the overall increased melanoma risk for Pill-users was statistically significant at three times.
The Pill also promotes development of heart attacks, in part by depleting body stores of vitamin B6.

Further, like breast cancer cells, those tumours have oestrogen receptors.
And so women on HRT are more likely to develop melanomas than non-users.
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II. Ultraviolet Deprivation Health Effects
Certain effects of ultraviolet deprivation are equally remarkable and tie together with health benefits.

FS Light & Childhood Health
In 1973, radiation-shielded full-spectrum (FS) lights were installed in five classrooms in Sarasota, Florida.
And what happened? Several extremely hyperactive, learning-disabled children calmed down completely and learned to read.
Absenteeism dropped.
The children in four standard-lit rooms continued to misbehave (as tracked by concealed motion-detecting cameras); their learning disabilities and absenteeism were unabated.

And after a year, students in the full-spectrum classrooms had one-third less tooth decay than those taught under standard lighting.
Laboratory mice, which had been exposed all their waking hours to FS light, had zero tooth decay.
Similar findings were reported from California, Washington state and Alberta, Canada.
A classroom comparison in Vermont found that full-spectrum lighting strengthened immunity.

Why was there so much less tooth decay after exposure to full-spectrum light, including trace UV?
And why did immunity improve under FS lights? According to Dr Ott:

"Every nutritional substance and medicine has a specific wavelength absorption.
If those wavelengths are missing in the artificial light source a person is exposed to, then the nutritional or other hoped-for benefits of the substance will not be utilized."

UV functions as a nutrient and as a co-factor (a substance required for a bodily process to occur) in the utilization of other nutrients.

So the full-spectrum lights corrected the children’s deficiency of vitamin D3 (not the same as the toxic form of vitamin D added to milk),
now considered a pro-hormone.
This enabled more complete calcium absorption--and lowers the risk of osteoporosis and hip fractures in later life.
Recent research has found that nearly half the people of all age groups taking RDA-strength supplements have too little vitamin D.
When the body doesn’t have enough of it to absorb adequate calcium from food, it extracts calcium from bone.

FS light also strengthens immunity in other ways.
It helps protect against multiple sclerosis, heart attacks and conversion of HIV to AIDS, among other things.
These are elaborated and fully referenced in the remainder of the paper [see NEXUS website (http://www.nexusmagazine.com/)].
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FS Light vs Cancers
Cancers hate full-spectrum light.
A tumour-susceptible strain of mice lived more than twice as long under full-spectrum as under standard lighting, and rats exposed to full-spectrum light had significantly lessened tumour development.
The tunnel-visioned National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society ignore these findings, which six major medical centers have confirmed.

Terminal cancer patients, who Dr Ott knew of personally, got well in a rocking chair in the sunshine.
Dr Jane Wright, directing cancer research at Bellevue Memorial Medical Center in New York City in 1959, was fascinated by Ott’s ideas.
So she instructed progressive-tumour patients to avoid artificial lights and stay outdoors as much as possible that summer.
They were not to wear sunglasses or prescription lenses, which block UV light.

By that fall, the tumours in 14 of 15 had not grown, and some patients had got better; the one whose condition deteriorated sat outdoors but wore prescription lenses.
Ott has been criticized for making no scientifically controlled human studies.
Well, funding for continuation of that study was withdrawn--that was his experience over and over.
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A Chicago-area elementary school suddenly reported five times the national average incidence of leukaemia, a kind of cancer of the blood.
All of the afflicted children but one were being taught in rooms where teachers kept the blinds drawn, and the children were exposed all day only to melanoma-promoting fluorescent light.
When even the amount of UV that can get through window glass was let in, the leukaemia cluster disappeared.
(Raymond Peat, PhD, thinks FS sunlight is best received through glass.

FS Light vs Arthritis and Blindness
Early in his research career, Dr Ott fell and broke his glasses; soon, his arthritis disappeared.
And in 1996, Marion Patricia Connolly, executive director of Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation (PPNF), had much the same experience.
Full-spectrum eyeglasses, i.e., lenses that transmit all ultraviolet light, are difficult to find.
I take off my glasses outdoors whenever I can.

Exposed to full-spectrum light, a father rat is docile and even helpful after his babies are born.
But when the same rat pair is moved under standard light, before the birth of the next litter the male must be removed to prevent aggressiveness and cannibalism. Moved back to natural light for still another litter, he is gentle again.
Although human fathers aren’t likely to eat their babies, do we really want more domestic aggressiveness?

Alternating full-spectrum light and total dark cured children born blind as a result of brain injury.
The technique was advocated by W. H. Bates about 1904 and endorsed by Aldous Huxley in 1930.
Efficacy was confirmed in the recent Annual Report from the British Institute for Brain Injured Children.

How can all this be explained?
Full-spectrum light, entering the eyes during waking hours, promotes night-time pineal gland secretion of melatonin. This sleep-promoting antioxidant destroys carcinogenic hydroxyl radicals--and also slows ageing.
Melatonin can suppress growth of human breast cancer cells in vitro (in a test tube), and can cross all barriers to enter every cell.
So enough sleep--best achieved in total darkness --becomes anti-ageing, antioxidant, anti-cancer, anti-heart attack therapy!

Except in short-term emergencies, people younger than about 50 should use supplements of melatonin cautiously, if at all.
For people over 40 to 45, one to three milligrams before bedtime safely promotes both prompt falling asleep and a good night’s rest, in addition to its other benefits.

In a laboratory, viruses are weakened by exposure to full-spectrum light that includes traces of UV.
Infectious organisms such as E. coli K12 AB2480, which can cause food poisoning, dislike ultraviolet too.
The Morris Center in Winnipeg, Canada, promotes "amazing" healing by shining full-spectrum light onto wounds.

FS Light vs Seasonal Affective Disorder
The power of full-spectrum light against SAD (seasonal depression) --again, by entering the eyes-- has been amply demonstrated.
FS light benefits nonseasonal depression, too, but not as much.
Such light energizes and regulates the body’s entire chemistry. Won’t "protecting" millions of people from UV, as the EPA advocates, then worsen the growing epidemic of depression?

Dietary sufficiency of vitamin D also needs consideration here.

"Seasonal affective disorder has been treated successfully with vitamin D.
In a recent study covering 30 days of treatment comparing vitamin D supplementation with two-hour daily use of light boxes, depression completely resolved in the D group but not in the light-box group."

The cells in the retinas of your eyes will not divide and regenerate without a small amount of ultraviolet light.
And so full-spectrum light reduces the risk of retinal degeneration, the leading cause of blindness among the elderly.
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(A prominent ophthalmologist declared the outcome "unlikely"; however, an exhaustive computer literature search by Kirk Hamilton, PA-C, publisher of Clinical Pearls News, found no refutation of the finding.)

White willow bark provides the same benefits as aspirin without stomach irritation or blindness, as do three glasses daily of purple grape juice.
And unlike aspirin, the flavonoids in purple grape juice remain effective when adrenaline levels rise.
Two 400-milligram capsules of white willow bark are equivalent to one baby aspirin.
Eating a lot of dark-green leafy vegetables such as spinach, kale and Brussels sprouts also helps avoid this condition.

Many dermatologists advise older patients to stay out of the sun to avoid skin cancer.
The thousands of elderly patients rotting in nursing homes come to mind.
That advice may unintentionally help to make patients sicker and older beyond their years.
Staying indoors will cause problems a lot worse than skin cancer.

Older people’s bones will crumble and break (osteoporosis); these elderly patients will hate living (depression).
Articles in the journals Cancer, Cancer Research and Preventive Medicine suggest that avoiding sunlight could promote the development of cancers other than those of the skin.

T cells take aim at cancer
http://www.pnas.org/content/99/25/15840.long

The immune system
http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/body/the-immune-system

ELDERLY SKIN RAISES CANCER RISK
http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/blog/?p=22683

Trihalomethanes ( THMs ) created as a byproduct of chlorinating water, can be absorbed by drinking chlorinated water,
through the skin in bath, shower and pools.

Avoid taking long showers, baths and avoid heating the water too much if water is chlorinated.
Avoid extended swimming in public chlorinated pools.

Spend as much time as possible in Myhouseinparadise because it is the only place were you have mineral water in the mains that also is not chlorinated and holds no bacteria and
can avoid the carcinogenics and health hazards mentioned above and in radiation_radioactivity_cancer.html and water_heart_disease_attack_stroke_artherosclerosis.htm.

In My House in Paradise mineral water in taps, showers baths is mineral water and is tested bacteria free and not chlorinated
( it is useless to chlorinate total bacteria free mineral water because there is nothing to kill or sterilize ).
(They also do not chlorinate bottled mineral water which by the way is not bacteria free).
THMs are formed when bacteria and chlorinated water act together.
Located in the region with the purest air ( according to Nasa ).

Editor's Note: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

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