Nature's Sunshine -jennie Pahl

News feature: The sunshine cure is an article out of Nature's Medicine a scholarly journal that I found online. I found this article extremely interesting. Before antibiotics were used to cure Tuberculosis in 1895 a Danish scientist used a sun lamp that resembled the suns rays to cure over 800 patients of this disease that was taking the life of thousands. More recently there are scientists and doctors that are researching the benefits being in the sun can produce. A little background on Vitamin D--- Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin (meaning it can not be absorbed inless there is fat that is taken in along with the vitamin...so if you drink a propel water that claims to have been vitamin enhanced with Vit.D inless you eat something with atleast a gram of fat the vitamin will not be absorbed into the body.) You can get vitamin d through your diet or through the sun Your body contains a vit. d synthesizer in the skin that when uv rays hit it it activates it to begin to make the vitamin. Vitamin D is responsible for many different things within the body to name a few-- bone health, maintaining normal blood levels, bone mineralization, maintain a healthy immune system and help regulate cell growth and differentiation. The assumption is that the extra vitamin D the patients were producing through the sun or lamp was actually helping them to fight the disease off. Vitamin D has been found to also help with muscle strength, heals psoriasis, and helps to prevent MS, hormone-dependent cancers and type-1 diabetes. This is amazing that just one vitamin can do this. Doctors recommend spending ten minutes a day in the sun to help stimulate vitamin d production. Its amazing how ten minutes outside can help to prevent so many different illnesses! Go take a walk in nature!