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Sunlight supercharges your cancer-fighting T-cells

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 3 months ago to Science
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For your information: Note, this is preliminary work but the old saying: "The sun does not cause cancer...it cures and prevents it", might be accurate after all.

Note also: that for those that use sun blocks or have some skin condition that rejects the benefits of sunlight) being in the sun might be harmful.
I myself, having a Swedish heritage, can get by with 1/2 the exposure at first and can lengthen my time in the sun little by little. Takes me a lot longer to tan safely.
SOURCE URL: http://easyhealthoptions.com/sunlight-supercharges-cancer-fighting-t-cells/

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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 3 months ago
    Hello again! I see you have two of the four posts I've visited on a Squeaks Mouse Coward patrol.
    Even though me dino with a past history of being in a lot of sunlight had skin cancer surgically cut out of my nose, I do not see how the article you posted merits a zero.
    This the fourth and last 0 + 1 = 1 for this Squeaks patrol.
    All hail old dino! Point Guardian of th Gulch!
    I am dino~
    Hear me ROAR!
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    • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 3 months ago
      Thanks Dino, I did mention that there are exceptions...no one is trying to finger that out, they just want the block the sun and the sun may not be the direct cause.
      Wouldn't it be nice if they fingered out Whom and Why some would be vulnerable and others or most not in an honest integrated way.
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      • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 3 months ago
        PS...this is good scientific work...don't know why someone would reject it.
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        • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 3 months ago
          My dad had some skin cancers cut out of him for working about a Florida Panhandle lake house in a bathing suit.
          Could be genetic in my case.
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          • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 3 months ago
            Could be or just happened to be out in the sun during a cosmic ray event too or maybe where you lived is more prone to these events...no one has really looked into these things.
            My Dad was a "Toe Head" Swede. White hair when born and all through life...as light as his skin was, he could still get a tan and never had skin cancer. But he grew up in Boston, was in the Service in California and then lived the rest of his life in Conn.
            I too, was born with white hair but turned darker as I got older but was still a Blond or light brown.
            (cause there was an Englishman in my ancestral wood pile).
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            • Posted by lrshultis 7 years, 3 months ago
              It is probably not to large a jump to see that since certain energies of ultraviolet light can easily break covalent bonds as in cholesterol3 to produce vitamin D3. Not too big a step to breaking bonds in other cellular chemicals and even at the DNA level.
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              • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 3 months ago
                There you go now. I thought this was good work and definitely worth consideration.

                My thoughts about the future of medicine is the use of different frequencies of light, sound and small electrical charges. I've read a lot about experiments using these things in pain abatement lately.
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            • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 3 months ago
              My dad is an American born full-blooded Swede who had thinned looking brown hair as long as I knew him. My brown hair looks thicker save for a bald spot in the back.
              Have four brothers of the same color hair save one who's kinda blond. His wife is blonde and they have three grown daughters who are blond. Kinda blond plus another brother shows some baldness.
              My son had blond hair when born but that turned brown and he's age 30 now. No blad spot is showing as yet.
              None of them have had skin cancer save for my dad and me.
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  • Posted by $ Stormi 7 years, 3 months ago
    I have long felt the need to be outside whenever possible. We have cold winters, but I don't mind shoveling light now in the sun, instead of using the blower. ?Even in winter the dog or cats and I walk our 1 1/2 acres in sunlight. It just seems to make the whole body more in balance, and the sun is invigorating. My doctor is like most, and loves to suggest Rxs, even when they are not needed, which I refuse. He is always surprised when the only time he sees me is for my yearly physical. Somehow, the Asians have long know the body would become sick if it were not in blaance and one with nature, the sun. Consider, how many people are on BP meds, but they are not cured. The problem is there, just at bey thanks to drugs. The real cure is weight control, propet eating, and exercise, with a dose of calmness. Our society is Rx crazy, and some of them cause cancer.
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    • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 3 months ago
      Agreed...we get so much from nature and the sun, not to mention, exercise!!! Don't have to make a religion out of it...this is where we live and the circumstances we have evolved with...just makes sense.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 3 months ago
    Might be the fact that sunlight produces vitamin D, and THAT is fighting cancer. That is what my prostate cancer doctor told me years ago. You can also take vitamin D in pill form and bypass the skin cancer risk.
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    • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 3 months ago
      Correct...D3 is actually what we get from the sun, we get D from plants, milk and animals that eat grass.
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      • Posted by lrshultis 7 years, 3 months ago
        I have seen it put that way elsewhere that D3 comes or is gotten from the sun where it is actually believed that the vitamin is actually in the sunlight. All that comes from the sun is the energy to break a bond in cholesterol with an OH group on the third carbon. Other D vitamins that are active in humans come from other stereoisomers like cholesterol5, can also be gotten from other sources as well as in supplements.
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