5 Amazing Properties of Sunlight You've Never Heard About

Highlights of nice article in Green Med Info Jan 2013

1. Sunlight Has Pain-Killing Properties – found in hospital study
2. Sunlight Burns Fat: (subcutaneous, not visceral is used up while making vitamin D)
3. Sunlight via Solar Cycles May Directly Regulate Human Lifespan: live 3 years longer if born at the max of the solar cycle – which only has 0.1% more intensity
4. Daytime Sunlight Exposure Improves Evening Alertness: (vs artificial light)
5. Sunlight May Convert To Metabolic Energy: 2008 Hypothesis

See also Vitamin D Life

• The sun appears to generate Co-Q10 in our bodies when we eat our greens – Greger April 2016
• Many wavelengths of light provide health benefits, not just UV – March 2016
• Benefits of sun are more than just vitamin D – 2008
• Hypothesis: Sun provides more than vitamin D – June 2012
• Opinion: sun better than UV better than vitamin D
• All items in category UV and vitamin D 334 items
• All items in category Sun and vitamin D 302 items
• UV suppressed weight gain in mice – Nov 2014
• Overview UV and Vitamin D
• How much time in the sun
• Survey finds that Non-Caucasians do not feel that people need sun exposure – July 2012
• Optimize vitamin D from the sun or UV
• Do You need a Suncation or just vitamin D - Nov 2012
• UVB produced 8X more vitamin D as solar UV – July 2012
• Hypothesis: Sun-produced nitric oxide reduces cardiovascular problems
• Vitamin D from phototherapy lamps, tanning beds, and the sun – Jan 2012 has the following chart
  Note Blue area is < 1,000 IU per day from UVB with full body exposure

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