The simple primal act of getting LOTS of the high noon sun on your bare “unprotected” skin in large amounts just may be the most important single thing you can do for your health. If the sun casts a shadow longer than you are tall you cannot make adequate vitamin D from the sun. You MUST take vitamin D3 at the daily rate of about 1000 IU/20 pounds of body weight.   Vitamin D Expert Doctor Holick’s Excellent Entertaining Amusing Video Vitamin D Presentation

"The incidence of skin cancer in tropical countries is extremely low. Sunshine is not bad, we really need it. Besides being our main source of vitamin D sunshine causes your body to produce melanin your natural protector against skin cancer. Sunscreen itself may even cause cancer. Five chemicals commonly used in sunscreens have found to behave like estrogen and stimulate tumor growth and spread of cancer cells."   Doctor David Williams MD

“Every 8 minutes another American dies from cancer caused by insufficient sunshine.” Doctor David G. Williams MD

“Sunlight has an enormous impact on health via the skin's neuroendocrine system. Exposure to UVB enables the body to build a strong skeletal structure, heart, and muscles as well as optimize the immune system and utilization of sugar. Compared with nontanners, tanners have been found to have robust levels of 25‑hydroxyvitamin D at winter's end and higher bone density.” John Cannell Vitamin D Council

“These results provide nearly direct evidence that solar UVB irradiance reduces the risk of many internal cancers. The likely mechanism is production of Vitamin D.” Doctor William Grant Vitamin D Expert

“Current research indicates vitamin D deficiency plays a role in causing seventeen varieties of cancer as well as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, muscle wasting, birth defects, and periodontal disease.” John Cannell Vitamin D Council

“The results this June bowled over long-term medical researchers. Women who took 1000 IU of vitamin D3 daily had 60 per cent less breast, lung and colon cancer at the end of the trial than women who took the dummy pill. And when she dropped the cases discovered in the first year, assuming those cancers had been present but unnoticed when the trial began, the reduction in cancer in her vitamin D group was an astonishing 77 per cent.” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2007

 “If sunlight is not available in your area because of latitude or season, sunlamps made by Sperti can be used to provide a natural balance of UV-B and UV-A. Used according to instructions, these lamps provide a safe equivalent of sunlight and will not cause burning or even heavy tanning.”  Krispin Sullivan, CN,

“The first step towards redressing some of the ills of civilized life—from depression to road rage, from cavities to osteoporosis—would be to get more light, inside or outside. Vitamin D adds sunlight to life from childhood through the golden years.” Krispin Sullivan, CN

“In the case of skin health, lutein, zeaxanthin, and other carotenoids appear to be depleted in the skin under conditions of prolonged UV light exposure. Skin exposure to UV rays generates reactive oxygen species, inflammation in skin cells, and erythema .Intake of dietary antioxidants, including lutein and zeaxanthin, reduces this inflammatory response, as carotenoids are poor absorbers of UV light.” Ribaya-Mercado

“If the vitamin D theory of autism is correct, then to the extent it is correct, the current plague of autism is an iatrogenic disease, caused by modern sun avoidance and the organizations that promulgated it. Long before we worshipped our current gods, primitive humans venerated an older god, the sun. Much as we have shunned our modern gods, 20 years ago we shunned the sun, hiding from it under buildings, cars, shade, and sunblock. We told the sun she was damaging us, and banished her from our lives—and from the lives of our pregnant women and our children. Tragically, we relied on medical knowledge instead of human traditions, government recommendations instead of common sense, the latest science instead of basic instincts. The ancient Greeks, who loved the sun, knew the gods seldom reward such hubris.” Doctor John Cannell Vitamin D Council

“New research shows that to get an optimal vitamin D supplement from the sun at a minimal risk of getting cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM), the best time of sun exposure is noon. That means that common health recommendations given by authorities in many countries -- that sun exposure should be avoided for three to five hours around noon and postponed to the afternoon -- could be wrong and may even promote CMM. This is in part because the action spectrum for CMM is likely to be centered at longer wavelengths than that of vitamin D generation.” Advanced Experiments in Medical Biology 2008; 624: 86-88

“Our recommendation, this is based on work in England and Norway, and the United States, that the optimal time to be in the sun for vitamin D production is near to solar noon as possible. That would be between say 10:00am and 2:00pm. The reason is two-fold. First of all, you need a shorter exposure time because the UVB is more intense. Now, the second reason is that when the sun goes down towards the horizon, the UVB is filtered out much more than the UVA. And it turns out that the long wave of ultraviolet called UVA, which runs from about 320 to 400 nanometers, is highly correlated with melanoma -- where the UVB is the one that produces the vitamin D, and that’s from 290 to 315 nanometers,” Doctor William Grant Vitamin D Expert

“90 percent of skin cancers are non-melanoma cancers. The most common forms are basal and squamous cell carcinomas, which are much less serious. They're benign and are easily cured by simple outpatient surgery. These are the ones caused by solar radiation. Melanomas, on the other hand, are most likely caused by lack of sunlight and excess artificial light.”  Doctor William Campbell Douglass, MD

“Jean King, the director of education for the Cancer Research Campaign, severely criticized researchers for defending sunbathing. She said, "There's a very clear and agreed public health message on this issue which we should be careful not to undermine."  Ah yes, an "agreed public health message"--the new paradigm of science that has no scientific justification. Sounds just like fat making you fat, or fluoride being good for your teeth. But the fluoride paradigm looks like it could be shifting sooner than later. “ Doctor William Campbell Douglass, MD

“British researchers examined 4,400 older people participating in the European Eye Study. Among subjects with the lowest combined antioxidant levels, sunlight exposure was significantly associated with elevated risk of developing advanced macular degeneration.”  Fletcher et al, Note the sun can hurt you, keep your antioxidant levels HIGH

“These four primary things -- exercising, addressing emotional stress, eating right, and getting regular sun exposure -- will make you feel at the top of your game. Whether you want to overcome depression or just want to stay healthy, these are the lifestyle changes that will get you there.”  Doctor Joseph Mercola MD

"Without sufficient amounts of vitamin D the cell cannot access it's DNA library and its functions are thereby impaired. The cell needs vitamin D to make the tools that are needed for everyday activity. This is why vitamin D can function in so many tissues and affects so many different diseases and health conditions."  Doctor Robert Heaney

"Research shows that ellagic acid a compound found in berries, nuts and other fruits might help prevent wrinkles and repair skin damage caused by the sun." Ellagic acid shown sun damage protective

"New evidence shows it takes up to 48 hours before you absorb the majority of the vitamin D that was generated by exposing your skin to the sun!" Doctor Joseph Mercola

"Australian and Dutch researchers discovered that folks with the highest amounts of selenium in their blood have a 57% lower rate of basal cell carcinoma and 64% lower rate of squamous cell carcinoma. Basal cell is more common but less dangerous; squamous cell is more likely to turn malignant."   Doctor Al Sears MD, Note do you think the sun is your skin cancer problem

"We can get a clue to that trigger by looking at identical twins and multiple sclerosis. Although their genes are identical, the identical twin that went out in the sun when young was much less likely to get multiple sclerosis than his or her identical twin. For example the adolescent identical twin who listened to the dermatologists, and avoided sun tanning, was 2.5 times more likely to later get MS than his/her identical sibling who ignored the dermatologists and tanned. I predict similar studies will be published concerning identical twins in both autism and schizophrenia."  Doctor John Cannell MD

Don’t be afraid of Sunshine, Vitamin A, Vitamin D, or Cholesterol; learn their properties and safely and freely use these powerful health tools.

Don’t Be Afraid of MOTHER SUN

“Since 1974, the increase of polyunsaturated fats has been blamed for the alarming increase in malignant melanoma (skin cancer) in Australia. ⁽¹²⁾ We are all told that the sun causes it. Are Australians going out in the sun any more now than they were fifty years ago? They are certainly eating more polyunsaturated oils: in Australia in 1995 I saw that even the cream on milk was removed and replaced with vegetable oil. Victims of the disease have been found to have polyunsaturated oils in their skin cells. Polyunsaturated oils are oxidized readily by ultra-violet radiation from the sun and form harmful 'free radicals'. These are known to damage the cell's DNA and this can lead to the deregulation we call cancer. Saturated fats are stable. They do not oxidize and form free radicals.”  Polyunsaturated Oils Increase Cancer Risk

"A word about another nutrient you might never think about sunlight. Yes sunlight is a biological need of the body and therefore I classify it as a nutrient."    Doctor Robert Rowen MD

For the millions of years that the human race has developed people have spent their entire waking lives in the sun; it has only been in the last two hundred years or so that many of us have worked indoors. Our bodies have developed the means to protect us from the harmful aspects of the sun's rays. To say the sun is harmful to humans is clearly beyond ridiculous. Yet this is the propaganda we have been fed.  Cancer Society’s Anti-Sun Ads Decried as Deceptive

You need to research this a little but let me just say a study of Australian lifeguards showed they had less serious skin cancer, melanoma, than office workers.

Does the sun cause the serious skin cancer, Melanoma?

Vitamin D Expert Doctor Robert Heaney on Melanoma