How Sunshine and Vitamin D Can Help You Eliminate Mercury
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Accumulating data have provided evidence that vitamin D is involved
in brain function. Vitamin D can inhibit the synthesis of inducible
nitric oxide synthase and increase glutathione levels, suggesting a
role for the hormone in brain detoxification.
The study shows that vitamin D helps remove mercury from your body
safely by radically increasing the amount of intracellular glutathione.
Neuroprotective and immunomodulatory effects of this hormone have
also been described in several experimental models, indicating the
potential value of vitamin D in helping neurodegenerative and
neuroimmune diseases. In addition, vitamin D induces glioma cell
death, making the hormone of potential interest in the management of
brain tumors.
These results reveal previously unsuspected roles for vitamin D in
brain function and suggest possible areas of future research.
Sources:
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<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T3K-45BCJ53-7&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=36fe7df09fbacd4b33fe816072a1793d>Trends
in Endocrinology and Metabolism April 2002,Volume 13, Issue 3, 1,
Pages 100-105
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
The mounting scientific discoveries about the tremendous health
impact of vitamin D are nothing short of a revolution within the
field of medicine. It's turning out to be so vital for so many of
your biological functions that a future revision of the official
guidelines on sun exposure is virtually guaranteed. It's only a matter of time.
But there's no reason for you to sit around and wait. The evidence is
already overwhelming; you absolutely need a certain amount of
unprotected, full-body sun exposure if you want to be optimally healthy.
Every week, more research is being published about the health
benefits of vitamin D. For example, it's already been found that
vitamin D can prevent or treat:
* Infections and inflammation
* 16 types of cancer
* Depression and neurological disorders
* Cold and flu
*
<http://v.mercola.com/blogs/public_blog/type-2-diabetics-get-your-vitamin-d-56939.aspx>Diabetes
* Osteoporosis
* Tuberculosis
And that's the short-short list.
This latest paper published in Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
describes how scientists are now beginning to realize vitamin D is
involved in maintaining the health of your brain as well, as they've
recently discovered vitamin D receptors in the brain, spinal cord,
and central nervous system.
There's even evidence indicating vitamin D improves your brain's
detoxification process.
Vitamin D helps remove mercury from your body safely by radically
increasing the amount of intracellular glutathione.
For those of you who are beginning to wonder whether the multitude of
vitamin D discoveries amount to nothing but hype, or perhaps even
some sort of scientific error, let me explain how it can be that
vitamin D is involved in so many different health aspects. Because if
you understand the basic science of vitamin D, then you can
understand its true potential.
How Can Vitamin D Be So Influential?
As Dr. Cannell, founder of the Vitamin D Council, explains so well in
my upcoming <http://products.mercola.com/inner-circle/>Inner Circle
interview with him; if you understand that vitamin D is not a
vitamin, but rather the only known substrate for a powerful repair
and maintenance steroid hormone that is involved in numerous
functions of your body and organs, then you can begin to see the
bigger picture.
Additionally, if you understand that, like all steroid hormones, it
regulates your body by turning your genes on or off, and that you
have about 2,000 genes that are directly influenced by vitamin D,
then you will be able to wrap your mind around the fact that vitamin
D may in fact have as many as 2,000 or more mechanisms of action
within your body!
This is the fundamental principle that explains why the same
substance, vitamin D, can be involved in, and have a major impact on
all the diseases of civilization. It all depends on which gene is
being up- or down-regulated by the presence, or absence, of vitamin D.
Why the Current Guidelines on Sun Exposure are Catastrophic to Your Health
It has been clearly established that the only way for your body to
synthesize vitamin D is in your skin once it's exposed to ultraviolet
rays from the sun. Hence, the current guidelines to avoid sun
exposure, and the fervent pushing of sunscreen, are perhaps some of
the most misguided and dangerous health recommendations out there.
You simply cannot obtain sufficient amounts of vitamin D from your
diet, as you were never designed to swallow vitamin D but get it from
the sun. This would, of course exclude taking a vitamin D
supplement, for which the government recommended daily allowance
(RDA) is still FAR too low to offer any significant health benefits
or contribute to disease reduction.
Consider this; In the summertime, when you put on your bathing suit
and sunbathe for 30 minutes, your body produces about 20,000 IUs of
vitamin D; as much as exists in 200 glasses of milk, or the
equivalent of about 50 multivitamins!
Meanwhile, the <http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitamind.asp>current
RDA for vitamin D, developed by the Food and Nutrition Board at the
Institute of Medicine of The National Academies, is miserably
insufficient as it is only:
* 200 IU for people aged 14-50
* 400 IU for people aged 51-70
* 600 IU for people over 71
Folks, there's simply no way to reap any benefit whatsoever from
these abysmally low amounts.
Lately, I've reported extensively on the subject of vitamin D and its
health ramifications. If you've missed any of my previous articles outlining:
* safe tanning practices
* how much sun exposure you really need
* the truth about sunshine exposure and melanoma
* why you should NOT use commercial sunscreens
* why sun exposure is far preferable to oral vitamin D supplements
* which type of vitamin D to chose if you decide to take a supplement
* how much vitamin D you should really take to reap the benefits, and
* vital information you need to know about getting your vitamin D
levels tested
then please take a moment to review them now.
You can also check out my
<http://www.mercola.com/article/vitamin-d-resources.htm>Vitamin D
Resource Page, which offers links to the most important pages, and
sources for even more information on this life saver.
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