I know I've popped in here before to say this, R & B, but here it goes again! When I moved to the country, stopped wearing sunglasses, and spent more time outdoors, including early morning, I stopped getting sunburns and even had some moles up and disappear. I have a long history of dermatologists removing skin cancers...cutting chunks out of my face...one melanoma surgery. Never again. Sometimes I'll use a lovely coconut oil infused with Brahmi from Banyan Botanicals. Other times, nothing. This summer I'll be traveling to visit family up at a lake. I'd love to share this but sadly I've tried. They love the spray sunscreens... 😲 Thx for the informative article!
Hi Barbara, sorry for the delay in reply. You can't say this enough! Thanks for the coconut oil tip - Mother Nature has all the solutions, we just need to be brave enough to trust her, right?
'It smells like holiday!!' someone told me once, and I sadly had to agree. When she wanted to give me some, I told her I'd rather take my chances with the sun (and the shade) instead of putting all these chemicals on my largest organ. She told me I was stupid, I'd surely get skin cancer without sunscreen. Sweet summer child, I thought... Winter is surely coming.
This made me laugh! I actually once saved an old bottle of either Coppertone or Bain de Soleil (I forget) just for the childhood memory aromatherapy it gave me. I had long since left sunscreens behind but damn, our olfactory memories are strong! :)
I have been building my solar callus but I took it too far at the beach this week. I got a little pink then went out the next day and it has been red the last 2 days. I decided to just go out the first 2 hours and last 2.
Gotcha Ryan - yes I'd take a break for a day, but definitely get out in the early AM and for Sunrise as you'll be able to build up your melatonin stores. Make sure you also don't wear sunglasses, as they block our ability to fight a sunburn by disrupting melanocyte-stimulating hormone in our eye.
I haven't used sunscreen in 35 years (age 74) and never wear a hat. My younger brother died of skin cancer in 1997. Everyone said it might be hereditary. I got checked by a dermatologist back then and that has been the last time I have seen one. I recently read where the highest paid medical (professionals?) are dermatologists.
I worked at times getting sun almost everyday and now not working, I go out on as many sunny days as I can for 15-30 minutes. Getting harder with all those clowns spraying the skies with chemtrails, which may be deadlier than sunrays...who knows?
The trick is not to over do it. But I live at about 43.5 degrees longitude, in the more northern climes so getting too much sun is a bit harder. I have traveled to all the southern states and I know things are a bit different as far as sunshine goes. I just try to avoid as many chemicals as I can.
Thanks so much Crixcyon for sharing your story. I didn't know that about dermatologists! makes sense though - as they're very asleep to the truth even today. If you ever find a holistic dermatologist, I'd love to know!
Excellent article, a must read for everyone. Another piece of advice from the establishment that couldn't be more toxic and health draining if they tried! The part about UV light helping the absorption of tyrosine is synchronous, and new, for me... in my new course on dopamine, I have just been putting together how the conversion of tyrosine to L-Dopa in the dopamine pathway seems to be blocked for folks with dopamine deficiency conditions, and a lack of UV light may be therefore be part of the reason for this.
Hi Gary! So sorry I missed your comment - tyrosine and our amino acid production via the gut and brain bacterial balance is truly an amazing process. The key to remember I think is that we are beings of light - why I like eating the rainbow, especially blue-green foods like algae, and then there's grassfed butter/ ghee of course, which allows us to keep the electrical pathway of our bodies in check, so that we can absorb a wider spectrum of light. Do you get out for the Sunrise and/ or Sunset?
Excellent breakdown, appreciate all the work that went into this. I've been taking an interest in light recently and fortunate to have found your work. My wife is on board for sun exposure but still wants to use 'natural sunscreen' so she doesn't have wrinkles from the sun when she is older. Any writings or research you've done about wrinkles?
Roman re your Q re holistic dermatologists - no i don't know any - are there any? but i have dealt with some regular MDs re skin lesions, and do not think i will go that route again after noticing how natural UV light seems to heal most things like that rather than cause them!! MDs burn things off and expect them to come back (which they sometimes do). I think blue light is a huge factor, including these darn metal-clad "eco" (low-e) windows. In CA, title 22 requires them on new construction and some are triple paned, so potentially 6 sides sprayed with metallic particles to block sunlight. No matter if you live in the blazing desert or the shady redwood forest (the only good thing is they also block some of the RF (: . Also after reading your article, jack kruse's info and the midwestern doctor's article on 'the forgotten side of medicine' substack about "dermatology's disastrous war against the sun" i am even more determined to avoid the cut and burn dermatologists.
Many people may not consider that their skin lesion (possibly cancer) is very close to where they hold their mobile phone. Also, for more info on skin cancer and the sun, and why not all skin cancers are created equal, check out this substack about dermatology's war against the sun: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dermatologys-disastrous-war-against
Great article, thanks Roman. About titanium dioxide to block UV, which as you mentioned is used in many “natural”, sunblocks and may double our risk of a bacterial Staph infection: It is also in many other cosmetics, like "foundation" skin makeup, some lipsticks, etc since it is white and opaque.
Getting sunlight on a regular basis is part of my, "Build Black Better" plan.
I'm blessed with an apartment balcony that's oriented so that I get some of the morning sun when it's around a 30 degree angle and ends around 70 degrees around lunch time. I use this time to be out there either doing calisthenics, overcoming isometrics, or brainstorming ways to hinder modern medicine.
I still go grounding before this but I wear sweats to avoid the 1 v 20 Kung-Fu fight with the mosquitoes in my area. We all gotta eat but I'd rather not be scratching my calves for the rest of the day.
Great Jonathan. In this highly politically-correct culture, i know i am going out on a limb to mention this, but as for "building black better" (: , you may already know about this: According to Jack Kruse, neurosurgeon, who writes & speaks a lot about sunlight & health, there is evidence that the darker a person's skin is (the more melanin it naturally contains) the greater the need for strong sunlight to promote health. Speaking primarily about the USA, he notes better health, injury and career outcomes for black professional sports players who live and play in our southern latitudes than those in northern latitudes - to the point where he would recommend against a Toronto team hiring a talented very black player from Miami or Dallas because he would not expect that player to do so well in the northern clime with less sunlight. I think this is very interesting, especially considering the injury rate of some of our major league sports stars. Of course if they are inside a 5G stadium under LED or fluorescent lights most of the time and on blue tech devices rather than out in the sun, the climate might not be as obvious a factor. I especially noted the chronic, huge injury problem with the Oakland/San Francisco Warriors in the last several years in their brand new Chase stadium touted for its 5G connections.
Awesome observations Yantra. Yeah knowing I need to be out in the sun can be a bit of a challenge depending on the weather and how busy I am that day. I just have to keep in mind that the less I get my skin exposed the more my mood and work will be hindered.
You know I have heard JKruse on this many times but I liked that you detailed it all so clearly. I grew up on beaches on the east coast tan all the time, then somehow in my 30s living in Boulder high altitude started using sunscreen and in my 50s started getting skin cancers and went through traditional removal of them, now have stopped that and am trying the circadian rhythm, sunlight approach. So I liked how you lay everything out in such detail and so clearly.
Getting the nano out makes the sun feel really good on the skin. i think the nano may be just under the surface of the skin. When I soak my feet in my nano bucket I don't get much of anything anymore in the bucket but I get a lot of pepper looking dots on my skin on my arms. Now my arms feel good when hit by the sun. Plus the skin on my arms looks a lot whiter like I'm losing my "tan" or surveilence under the skin.
Thank you, Mr. Shapoval, for a very informative article.
Ever since a teenager I've had an interest in human prehistory and how our prehistoric ancestors lived. I've tried to ask the question (something like) "What would our ancestors have done?" When confronted with a novel situation.
Perhaps another dimension along these lines is the "Persistence Running" hypothesis. This is basically the idea that our early Homo sapien ancestors (and probably earlier species within the Homo genus) had to spend some (certainly not all but some) of their time and energy loping or jogging across the African savanna essentially running-down big game such as antelope. Apparently (and I'm not an expert here) the size of the human brain increased dramatically about the time of (and in conjunction with) our adaptation to Persistence Running and hunting because of the ready and abundant supply of high-quality meat this life style made available.
The idea is that most big game animals have evolved to sprint away from a predator at a high rate of speed for a relatively short distance. At the end of the sprint (perhaps a mile or so) the game animal would be spent but it would, if healthy, have eluded its predator (such as a big cat).
The qualitative difference that human brought to the predator-prey relationship was the humans' ability to persist in running down it's prey after the prey animal (probably mostly antelope) was fatigued from its sprint retreat. The idea is that humans with their superior tracking and reasoning ability could continue to follow a prey animal even after it had disappeared into the bush or over the horizon.
I am referencing by memory Christopher McDougall book "Born to Run" for most of the above information. McDougall studied the Native American tribes that lived (and perhaps still do?) in the Copper Canyon region of Western Mexico. I believe this tribe was known as the "Tarahumara" and they were reputed to engage in events and contests that would involve running for days (and nights) at a time.
Even elite distance runners (such as world-class marathoners) run at a relatively slow pace compared to most four legged animals. (The best marathoners can reach 12 miles an hour for about a 2:05 marathon while most four legged prey animals such as antelope can easily outrun humans over a short distance reaching speeds well above 20 miles an hour; however at the end of a mile or so the prey animal must stop and regain its strength while the humans are following with their "persistent" jog. Ultimately (perhaps after several hours or even an entire day) the prey animal is fully spent and the humans can then easily complete the kill.
Thanks for sharing all this. You know - you've hit a nerve. I've always wanted to track down an antelope by running it down like this. I guess life is the same way - those who persist daily, get the prize, while others sprint away and exhaust their life force.
Ever been to Copper Canyon? Sounds like a fascinating place.
Even some of the persistent never get the antelope. Believe me I know.
I've flown over the Copper Canyon region on my way to Puerta Vallarta (my understanding is they are six canyons actually deeper than Arizona's Grand Canyon) but I've never been there.
My limited understanding is that when the Spanish Conquistadors subdued the Aztec Empire (c. 1520 if memory of my history texts serves me) the Tarahumara Indians had the good sense to retreat to the inhospitable Copper Canyon region perhaps anticipating that the Spanish would leave the region alone because it was so inhospitable. They apparently live there to this day largely unmolested by Western ways and incursions. (I've heard they occasionally have run-ins with drug traffickers.)
I lived in Ensenda, Mexico for a short period about three years ago just 100 miles south of San Diego in Baja Norte. I used to buy fish cocktails from a young man street vendor who had his booth located just beyond my apartment. The young man was very obviously fully Native American. Not only did he not speak a word of English ( many Mexicans in that part of Mexico speak at least some English) I'm not sure he spoke any Spanish. Perhaps he was a displaced Tarahumara. In any event I always tipped him well. The cost of housing in Mexico was so low and affordable I had considerable discretionary money and it gave me great satisfaction to be able to tip well knowing that even 20 pesos (about one U.S. dollar then) would really help the locals out with a day's wage being the equivalent of just a few U.S. dollars.
Amazing! Proof in the pudding. You're lucky to have them JP - many of us have elders that are bewildered and lost. I bet they're in fantastic shape too?
I know I've popped in here before to say this, R & B, but here it goes again! When I moved to the country, stopped wearing sunglasses, and spent more time outdoors, including early morning, I stopped getting sunburns and even had some moles up and disappear. I have a long history of dermatologists removing skin cancers...cutting chunks out of my face...one melanoma surgery. Never again. Sometimes I'll use a lovely coconut oil infused with Brahmi from Banyan Botanicals. Other times, nothing. This summer I'll be traveling to visit family up at a lake. I'd love to share this but sadly I've tried. They love the spray sunscreens... 😲 Thx for the informative article!
Hi Barbara, sorry for the delay in reply. You can't say this enough! Thanks for the coconut oil tip - Mother Nature has all the solutions, we just need to be brave enough to trust her, right?
Right on! :)
'It smells like holiday!!' someone told me once, and I sadly had to agree. When she wanted to give me some, I told her I'd rather take my chances with the sun (and the shade) instead of putting all these chemicals on my largest organ. She told me I was stupid, I'd surely get skin cancer without sunscreen. Sweet summer child, I thought... Winter is surely coming.
This made me laugh! I actually once saved an old bottle of either Coppertone or Bain de Soleil (I forget) just for the childhood memory aromatherapy it gave me. I had long since left sunscreens behind but damn, our olfactory memories are strong! :)
Would you continue to get in the sun even after a sun burn?
Thanks for your question Ryan.
It depends on the time of day -probably not, I would give it a day. However sunburns usually take an hour or so for us to feel.
Why do you ask? It also depends on how much of a solar callus/tan you've already built up.
I have been building my solar callus but I took it too far at the beach this week. I got a little pink then went out the next day and it has been red the last 2 days. I decided to just go out the first 2 hours and last 2.
Gotcha Ryan - yes I'd take a break for a day, but definitely get out in the early AM and for Sunrise as you'll be able to build up your melatonin stores. Make sure you also don't wear sunglasses, as they block our ability to fight a sunburn by disrupting melanocyte-stimulating hormone in our eye.
I haven't used sunscreen in 35 years (age 74) and never wear a hat. My younger brother died of skin cancer in 1997. Everyone said it might be hereditary. I got checked by a dermatologist back then and that has been the last time I have seen one. I recently read where the highest paid medical (professionals?) are dermatologists.
I worked at times getting sun almost everyday and now not working, I go out on as many sunny days as I can for 15-30 minutes. Getting harder with all those clowns spraying the skies with chemtrails, which may be deadlier than sunrays...who knows?
The trick is not to over do it. But I live at about 43.5 degrees longitude, in the more northern climes so getting too much sun is a bit harder. I have traveled to all the southern states and I know things are a bit different as far as sunshine goes. I just try to avoid as many chemicals as I can.
Thanks so much Crixcyon for sharing your story. I didn't know that about dermatologists! makes sense though - as they're very asleep to the truth even today. If you ever find a holistic dermatologist, I'd love to know!
Great article 🙏🏻 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Excellent article, a must read for everyone. Another piece of advice from the establishment that couldn't be more toxic and health draining if they tried! The part about UV light helping the absorption of tyrosine is synchronous, and new, for me... in my new course on dopamine, I have just been putting together how the conversion of tyrosine to L-Dopa in the dopamine pathway seems to be blocked for folks with dopamine deficiency conditions, and a lack of UV light may be therefore be part of the reason for this.
Hi Gary! So sorry I missed your comment - tyrosine and our amino acid production via the gut and brain bacterial balance is truly an amazing process. The key to remember I think is that we are beings of light - why I like eating the rainbow, especially blue-green foods like algae, and then there's grassfed butter/ ghee of course, which allows us to keep the electrical pathway of our bodies in check, so that we can absorb a wider spectrum of light. Do you get out for the Sunrise and/ or Sunset?
I go out early in the morning, around 7:30 am
Excellent breakdown, appreciate all the work that went into this. I've been taking an interest in light recently and fortunate to have found your work. My wife is on board for sun exposure but still wants to use 'natural sunscreen' so she doesn't have wrinkles from the sun when she is older. Any writings or research you've done about wrinkles?
Hi Macro - great question, and sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Light is the key to everything. I totally get it about the wrinkles.
Best advice I can give is to get a lot of red light/ am light. Have you looked into infrared saunas? https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/emfsauna
Agree with everything you say.
I've always to collect a tan throughout the year.
However, I didn't realise the vitamin D deception until I read tge following link.
https://open.substack.com/pub/chemtrails/p/vitamin-d-is-rat-poison-the-fraudulent?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=rp56c
Roman re your Q re holistic dermatologists - no i don't know any - are there any? but i have dealt with some regular MDs re skin lesions, and do not think i will go that route again after noticing how natural UV light seems to heal most things like that rather than cause them!! MDs burn things off and expect them to come back (which they sometimes do). I think blue light is a huge factor, including these darn metal-clad "eco" (low-e) windows. In CA, title 22 requires them on new construction and some are triple paned, so potentially 6 sides sprayed with metallic particles to block sunlight. No matter if you live in the blazing desert or the shady redwood forest (the only good thing is they also block some of the RF (: . Also after reading your article, jack kruse's info and the midwestern doctor's article on 'the forgotten side of medicine' substack about "dermatology's disastrous war against the sun" i am even more determined to avoid the cut and burn dermatologists.
Many people may not consider that their skin lesion (possibly cancer) is very close to where they hold their mobile phone. Also, for more info on skin cancer and the sun, and why not all skin cancers are created equal, check out this substack about dermatology's war against the sun: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dermatologys-disastrous-war-against
thank you Yantra for this invaluable info....do you know any holistic dermatologists by chance? (: hope you're doing well!
Great article, thanks Roman. About titanium dioxide to block UV, which as you mentioned is used in many “natural”, sunblocks and may double our risk of a bacterial Staph infection: It is also in many other cosmetics, like "foundation" skin makeup, some lipsticks, etc since it is white and opaque.
Getting sunlight on a regular basis is part of my, "Build Black Better" plan.
I'm blessed with an apartment balcony that's oriented so that I get some of the morning sun when it's around a 30 degree angle and ends around 70 degrees around lunch time. I use this time to be out there either doing calisthenics, overcoming isometrics, or brainstorming ways to hinder modern medicine.
I still go grounding before this but I wear sweats to avoid the 1 v 20 Kung-Fu fight with the mosquitoes in my area. We all gotta eat but I'd rather not be scratching my calves for the rest of the day.
Great Jonathan. In this highly politically-correct culture, i know i am going out on a limb to mention this, but as for "building black better" (: , you may already know about this: According to Jack Kruse, neurosurgeon, who writes & speaks a lot about sunlight & health, there is evidence that the darker a person's skin is (the more melanin it naturally contains) the greater the need for strong sunlight to promote health. Speaking primarily about the USA, he notes better health, injury and career outcomes for black professional sports players who live and play in our southern latitudes than those in northern latitudes - to the point where he would recommend against a Toronto team hiring a talented very black player from Miami or Dallas because he would not expect that player to do so well in the northern clime with less sunlight. I think this is very interesting, especially considering the injury rate of some of our major league sports stars. Of course if they are inside a 5G stadium under LED or fluorescent lights most of the time and on blue tech devices rather than out in the sun, the climate might not be as obvious a factor. I especially noted the chronic, huge injury problem with the Oakland/San Francisco Warriors in the last several years in their brand new Chase stadium touted for its 5G connections.
Awesome observations Yantra. Yeah knowing I need to be out in the sun can be a bit of a challenge depending on the weather and how busy I am that day. I just have to keep in mind that the less I get my skin exposed the more my mood and work will be hindered.
You know I have heard JKruse on this many times but I liked that you detailed it all so clearly. I grew up on beaches on the east coast tan all the time, then somehow in my 30s living in Boulder high altitude started using sunscreen and in my 50s started getting skin cancers and went through traditional removal of them, now have stopped that and am trying the circadian rhythm, sunlight approach. So I liked how you lay everything out in such detail and so clearly.
Getting the nano out makes the sun feel really good on the skin. i think the nano may be just under the surface of the skin. When I soak my feet in my nano bucket I don't get much of anything anymore in the bucket but I get a lot of pepper looking dots on my skin on my arms. Now my arms feel good when hit by the sun. Plus the skin on my arms looks a lot whiter like I'm losing my "tan" or surveilence under the skin.
Excellent article thank you.
Thanks so much Sabrina! What did you enjoy the most?
Thank you, Mr. Shapoval, for a very informative article.
Ever since a teenager I've had an interest in human prehistory and how our prehistoric ancestors lived. I've tried to ask the question (something like) "What would our ancestors have done?" When confronted with a novel situation.
Perhaps another dimension along these lines is the "Persistence Running" hypothesis. This is basically the idea that our early Homo sapien ancestors (and probably earlier species within the Homo genus) had to spend some (certainly not all but some) of their time and energy loping or jogging across the African savanna essentially running-down big game such as antelope. Apparently (and I'm not an expert here) the size of the human brain increased dramatically about the time of (and in conjunction with) our adaptation to Persistence Running and hunting because of the ready and abundant supply of high-quality meat this life style made available.
The idea is that most big game animals have evolved to sprint away from a predator at a high rate of speed for a relatively short distance. At the end of the sprint (perhaps a mile or so) the game animal would be spent but it would, if healthy, have eluded its predator (such as a big cat).
The qualitative difference that human brought to the predator-prey relationship was the humans' ability to persist in running down it's prey after the prey animal (probably mostly antelope) was fatigued from its sprint retreat. The idea is that humans with their superior tracking and reasoning ability could continue to follow a prey animal even after it had disappeared into the bush or over the horizon.
I am referencing by memory Christopher McDougall book "Born to Run" for most of the above information. McDougall studied the Native American tribes that lived (and perhaps still do?) in the Copper Canyon region of Western Mexico. I believe this tribe was known as the "Tarahumara" and they were reputed to engage in events and contests that would involve running for days (and nights) at a time.
Even elite distance runners (such as world-class marathoners) run at a relatively slow pace compared to most four legged animals. (The best marathoners can reach 12 miles an hour for about a 2:05 marathon while most four legged prey animals such as antelope can easily outrun humans over a short distance reaching speeds well above 20 miles an hour; however at the end of a mile or so the prey animal must stop and regain its strength while the humans are following with their "persistent" jog. Ultimately (perhaps after several hours or even an entire day) the prey animal is fully spent and the humans can then easily complete the kill.
Sounds horrifying from the point of view of the antelope.
Tom,
Thanks for sharing all this. You know - you've hit a nerve. I've always wanted to track down an antelope by running it down like this. I guess life is the same way - those who persist daily, get the prize, while others sprint away and exhaust their life force.
Ever been to Copper Canyon? Sounds like a fascinating place.
Even some of the persistent never get the antelope. Believe me I know.
I've flown over the Copper Canyon region on my way to Puerta Vallarta (my understanding is they are six canyons actually deeper than Arizona's Grand Canyon) but I've never been there.
My limited understanding is that when the Spanish Conquistadors subdued the Aztec Empire (c. 1520 if memory of my history texts serves me) the Tarahumara Indians had the good sense to retreat to the inhospitable Copper Canyon region perhaps anticipating that the Spanish would leave the region alone because it was so inhospitable. They apparently live there to this day largely unmolested by Western ways and incursions. (I've heard they occasionally have run-ins with drug traffickers.)
I lived in Ensenda, Mexico for a short period about three years ago just 100 miles south of San Diego in Baja Norte. I used to buy fish cocktails from a young man street vendor who had his booth located just beyond my apartment. The young man was very obviously fully Native American. Not only did he not speak a word of English ( many Mexicans in that part of Mexico speak at least some English) I'm not sure he spoke any Spanish. Perhaps he was a displaced Tarahumara. In any event I always tipped him well. The cost of housing in Mexico was so low and affordable I had considerable discretionary money and it gave me great satisfaction to be able to tip well knowing that even 20 pesos (about one U.S. dollar then) would really help the locals out with a day's wage being the equivalent of just a few U.S. dollars.
My dad is 90 & has been telling us since start that sunscreen was scam & they still get 30 minutes of sun every morning. Him & my mom who is 84
Amazing! Proof in the pudding. You're lucky to have them JP - many of us have elders that are bewildered and lost. I bet they're in fantastic shape too?