How Sunshine and Vitamin D Can Help You Eliminate Mercury

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How Sunshine and Vitamin D Can Help You Eliminate Mercury

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:

a.. 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:

a.. Infections and inflammation

b.. 16 types of cancer

c.. Depression and neurological disorders

d.. Cold and flu

e.. Diabetes

f.. Osteoporosis

g.. 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 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 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:

a.. 200 IU for people aged 14-50

b.. 400 IU for people aged 51-70

c.. 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:

a.. safe tanning practices

b.. how much sun exposure you really need

c.. the truth about sunshine exposure and melanoma

d.. why you should NOT use commercial sunscreens

e.. why sun exposure is far preferable to oral vitamin D supplements

f.. which type of vitamin D to chose if you decide to take a

supplement

g.. how much vitamin D you should really take to reap the benefits,

and

h.. 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 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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