DoctorsTV and Oz: Healthy Sunlight and Vitamin D Ideas
The DoctorsTV and Dr. Oz both have had segments about healthy sleep, healthy exposure to sunlight, and the relative importance of vitamin D3 for bone and breast health.
Vitamin D3 is being indicated as beneficial for the health of breasts, bone, heart, skin, and basically…your Endocrine and Immune Systems.
How many people regularly spend twenty to thirty minutes in the outdoors under the sun? Does that describe you? Did you watch that woman on Dr. Oz who sunbathes and goes to the tanning salon several times each week for many years and could not live without being tan?
She wasn’t going to budge or change her mind about how important having a tan was to her…for any reason or anybody! Dr. Oz tried to put the fear of skin cancer in her face, but that was not as big a deal as he had hoped it would be as a way to change her mind. She is dedicated to worshipping the sun and the tan it can give to her bronzed skin. It’s far more important to have a tan than to have to face surgery or radiation or chemotherapy for cancer. It’s her choice, but… Whoa! One could tell that she is NOT the healthiest person, she is overweight, she’s retaining water, she has some basic health problems; but she doesn’t seem to care….she’s going to get out in the sun and go to get her tan on the tanning bed no matter what the cost.
For this type of personality, only the discomfort and pain that the treatment for cancer carries with it will be enough to make her pause…and decide if the pain is worth the tan. That’s when she’ll change her mind. Pain has a way of grabbing your attention and changing your priorities. Only time will tell for this gal…
The smart people will still spend ten to twenty minutes in the sun wearing an organic natural sunscreen. They will take nutritional supplements that nourish the skin like ionic boron, zinc, copper, and other trace minerals as well as a comprehensive array of vitamins. EFAs and other nutrients can be taken as supplements or found in whole foods like salmon, avocado, nuts, seeds, and olive oil. Flax seeds, chia seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and others nourish the skin. You can use a healthy skin lotion that contains natural substances that nurture the skin in addition to the supplements.
There are some well-designed devices and equipment that will provide you with full spectrum light that is equal to the rays of the sun from Nature for the times when there is inclement weather or no sun in the evening when you have the time for some wonderful Light Therapy.
Light Therapy will change your mood, too. You’ll find that depression, anxiety, sadness, grief, and weakening emotions and thoughts are lessened when you spend some time with these Light Therapy tools. Although there’s nothing better than the sun, it does make a difference when you have a Lifestyle that keeps you too busy to spend time outdoors in the sun on a regular basis. These Light Therapy options will give you what you are lacking when you spend most of your time indoors in the office, in your house, in the gym, and in your car. When you find time to unwind at the end of the day or as you begin the day, these options will serve you well.
The doctors describe the virtues of a good night’s sleep and we’ve seen them play in bed with good pillows, a good mattress, and good bedding. Organic cotton bedding is ideal. There are more choices now than ever before for healthy beds and furniture. Even clocks and lights to help you wake up gradually with increasing the light and the sounds of the morning are preferable to a loud obnoxious alarm clock that shocks you out of your sweet slumber.
Long, long ago in a galaxy far away when Dr. Ott did his ground-breaking research on full spectrum light; we took notice and have constantly commended people to use full spectrum light bulbs and get their ‘blue’ wavelength.
Just as much as we recommend eating all of the colors of fruits and vegetables, we want you to expose yourself to all the colors in Nature. White light contains the full rainbow of the spectrum and is essential for Wellness. People who lack green often develop cancer. People who lack blue often develop mental imbalances or mood disorders. People who cannot see yellow often have digestive problems. People who have little red or orange often experience more pain in their bodies that has no organic cause. Color is frequency and is at the heart of Bio-Energetic Medicine’s approach to Total Health and Well-Being. Color is LIFE! Use Light Therapy to get your color in the easiest way possible.
