Great article. Four yrs ago i moved into a house with lots of huge slightly grey windows and started to get some very weird skin symptoms. I lived with these new crusty little growths on nose, cheek, etc, for over 3 years, at times cutting the one on my nose off regularly - it would get up to 2mm thick!
Although i am outside more than most people, i was also inside a lot, esp in colder months, and near a computer monitor at times. I went to a dermatologist to see if they were skin cancer or what, she said no, but didn't seem to know what they were, burnt/froze them off and said they should be "watched". They came back. In public i covered them with makeup; outside i "protected" them from the sun with a hat or lotion (NOT sunscreen).
When i recently began getting as much outdoor sunlight as possible on my face and body, they started going away. Most of them are gone or nearly so. I recently learned from Jack Kruse about how even window glass can create blue light toxicity indoors, and i now know that newer low-E windows especially do. They are triple-paned and each pane is sprayed with various metals to limit all UV, and, in my climate, all infrared.
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As soon as I could travel again after international travel restrictions were lifted in 2021, I stopped using sun protection (in addition to actually eating more healthily). It did not take long for my skin/body to adjust to tanning instead of burning which I had done for most of life despite being mixed race. Now I can go out in the hottest suns (East Africa and UAE) without burning. Having read this brilliant article, now I finally know why! So many decades of ignorant damage to be undone in just a few years across a wide range of matters. This adds another piece. Thank you.
Great article. We live in West-Central Wisconsin, at a latitude exactly halfway between the Equator and the North Pole. At our winter solstice, we have 8 hours daylight and 16 hours of darkness. And the sun is not far above the horizon at noon. Plus, it’s cloudy on most days. This, and the cold, make it virtually impossible to get enough natural sunlight. This article advises against taking vitamin d supplements, but doesn’t explain how to get vitamin d under these circumstances. Especially for folks in their mid-60’s.
Profoundly important and interesting article. Confirms things I have been thinking for a while. The tyrosine link is important for people with parkinson's [dopamine insufficiency]. Everything in the world seems to be turned 180 upside down.
Thank you Gary for sharing your perspective. I'm so happy that this article hit you in the heart, so that you can now help others save their brain (: The neurodegeneration is not going away for many, as the younger generations willl be affected earlier and earlier. Sunlight is the key to building neuromelanin. Melanin is the key for total health optimization, in my humble opinion.
Maybe we could get on a call at some point in the next week to share notes and touch base?
Great article, Roman! I used to be a regular at the dermatologist. Had a melanoma around age 30 and multiple other skin cancers. I just went along with chunks routinely being taken out of my skin. Until I woke up to the lunacy. I've had success with Chaga cream removing skin irregularities like what they call basal cell, etc. I haven't worn sunscreen in years and since I moved to the country and am outside a lot more, My Scottish/Irish/Polish skin rarely burns and I've actually had moles disappear. No sunglasses, either. This narrative of the sun being bad for us is just crazy.
Curious what you think about the ozone layer argument? I'm not gonna lie, I miss the smell of Coppertone, Sea and Ski, and Bain de Soleil! :) ☀️
Barbara, thanks so much for sharing...my internet was down most of the day(blessing in disguise) so just seeing your comment re: ozone. Great question- will get back to you. I know if you live in Australia and you have a medium complexion like me, it's easy to overdose on the Sun. Hat and hemp /linen clothing are an excellent choice in that instance.
I was just curious if that's a legit concern. Hard to believe anything mainstream these days. I don't worry about it at all here in NH. Internet down - welcome to my internet-spotty world! Big deal, right? Hope you enjoyed it! :)
Nice. Don't make me jealous Barbara (: If anything I would say that the weakening magnetosphere is a greater concern, as it will allow more cosmic rays (intense gamma radiation) to get through. Why grounding, and having our beloved tree friends around us will help, as they create their own magnetic field.
Not to make you jealous, Roman, but plenty of trees here. :) NH is 2nd in trees in the US (Maine is 1st.) They are my neighbors on all sides. I'm so blessed. 🌲🌲🌲
I checked that website; it's superb. On the scent issue, you can produce natural scents with essential oils and coconut oil. See allure.com for suggestions, but beware of synthetic scents.
I'm a total label reader and try to make most of my own skincare products so I know what's in them. Kate doesn't have anything synthetic in the Chaga creme. I just looked on the jar. I don't even like using essential oils anymore. I think they're way overused (in everything) and not as harmless as people think.
Many thanks, Barbara Sinclair!😊 I’ve got English/Irish/Dutch (Northern European) skin. I’ve also had my face cut up, plus lots of freezing off precancerous things with the nitrogen gun. Did the chaga cream help out at all with brown spots on your face?
WOW what a great article. This is an article to be printed and saved. I do not wear sunglasses or sun screen. I am sure to get out in the sun everyday. In the winter I do take Vit. D because I hate the cold and do not get out everyday. There is so much info packed into this article and links I am going to go through it all again and I will share on my Substack. It will be a good break from the usual info I share.Thanks.
Thank you so much Karen for your feedback! I hear you in the cold. Vitamin D is tricky- all about balancing with K2 and A so our bones don’t get calcified. Any questions- feel free to reach out.. Thanks again for your support!
I took CLO for a number of years but stopped after the fermented came out...I tried it based on Westin A Price info regarding regular CLO being rancid. But ugh, I couldn’t stand it. What brand do you take and what are your thoughts on fermented bs regular CLO?
thanks for asking Cynthia. I've read that rancid CLO can do way more harm, so I like the fermented one - Blue Ice by Green Pastures. They have it in pill form. I like the orange flavor, although you may still get some fish burps after (:
Iodine (Lugol's) was a health rabbit-hole I went down about 16 years ago, as I was clearly very ill...but for no reason that my doctor could discern.
I worked myself up, over a couple of years, to 50mg (milligrams) of elemental iodine daily, along with recommended co-factors of vitamin C, salt, selenium and mag.
I did feel somewhat better. My immune system woke up. But it wasn't the full story.
Then I discovered how desperately low in magnesium I was. Still working on that.
I don't take iodine regularily at this point, but I am thinking I should start again.
Very interesting. We ditched sunscreen and Vit D years ago. I once burned very easily, and certainly can still burn, but I am much less prone than before. Increasing my desperately low cellular magnesium levels seemed to help, as did iodine supplementation
The sun doesn’t cause cancer unless you like to burn. Wearing shirts in the pool and apply toxic sunscreen lowers your immune system.
Great article. Four yrs ago i moved into a house with lots of huge slightly grey windows and started to get some very weird skin symptoms. I lived with these new crusty little growths on nose, cheek, etc, for over 3 years, at times cutting the one on my nose off regularly - it would get up to 2mm thick!
Although i am outside more than most people, i was also inside a lot, esp in colder months, and near a computer monitor at times. I went to a dermatologist to see if they were skin cancer or what, she said no, but didn't seem to know what they were, burnt/froze them off and said they should be "watched". They came back. In public i covered them with makeup; outside i "protected" them from the sun with a hat or lotion (NOT sunscreen).
When i recently began getting as much outdoor sunlight as possible on my face and body, they started going away. Most of them are gone or nearly so. I recently learned from Jack Kruse about how even window glass can create blue light toxicity indoors, and i now know that newer low-E windows especially do. They are triple-paned and each pane is sprayed with various metals to limit all UV, and, in my climate, all infrared.
As soon as I could travel again after international travel restrictions were lifted in 2021, I stopped using sun protection (in addition to actually eating more healthily). It did not take long for my skin/body to adjust to tanning instead of burning which I had done for most of life despite being mixed race. Now I can go out in the hottest suns (East Africa and UAE) without burning. Having read this brilliant article, now I finally know why! So many decades of ignorant damage to be undone in just a few years across a wide range of matters. This adds another piece. Thank you.
Great article. We live in West-Central Wisconsin, at a latitude exactly halfway between the Equator and the North Pole. At our winter solstice, we have 8 hours daylight and 16 hours of darkness. And the sun is not far above the horizon at noon. Plus, it’s cloudy on most days. This, and the cold, make it virtually impossible to get enough natural sunlight. This article advises against taking vitamin d supplements, but doesn’t explain how to get vitamin d under these circumstances. Especially for folks in their mid-60’s.
D3 can be a ingredient in rat poison.
💯☀️
Profoundly important and interesting article. Confirms things I have been thinking for a while. The tyrosine link is important for people with parkinson's [dopamine insufficiency]. Everything in the world seems to be turned 180 upside down.
Thank you Gary for sharing your perspective. I'm so happy that this article hit you in the heart, so that you can now help others save their brain (: The neurodegeneration is not going away for many, as the younger generations willl be affected earlier and earlier. Sunlight is the key to building neuromelanin. Melanin is the key for total health optimization, in my humble opinion.
Maybe we could get on a call at some point in the next week to share notes and touch base?
Great article, Roman! I used to be a regular at the dermatologist. Had a melanoma around age 30 and multiple other skin cancers. I just went along with chunks routinely being taken out of my skin. Until I woke up to the lunacy. I've had success with Chaga cream removing skin irregularities like what they call basal cell, etc. I haven't worn sunscreen in years and since I moved to the country and am outside a lot more, My Scottish/Irish/Polish skin rarely burns and I've actually had moles disappear. No sunglasses, either. This narrative of the sun being bad for us is just crazy.
Curious what you think about the ozone layer argument? I'm not gonna lie, I miss the smell of Coppertone, Sea and Ski, and Bain de Soleil! :) ☀️
Barbara, thanks so much for sharing...my internet was down most of the day(blessing in disguise) so just seeing your comment re: ozone. Great question- will get back to you. I know if you live in Australia and you have a medium complexion like me, it's easy to overdose on the Sun. Hat and hemp /linen clothing are an excellent choice in that instance.
I was just curious if that's a legit concern. Hard to believe anything mainstream these days. I don't worry about it at all here in NH. Internet down - welcome to my internet-spotty world! Big deal, right? Hope you enjoyed it! :)
Nice. Don't make me jealous Barbara (: If anything I would say that the weakening magnetosphere is a greater concern, as it will allow more cosmic rays (intense gamma radiation) to get through. Why grounding, and having our beloved tree friends around us will help, as they create their own magnetic field.
Not to make you jealous, Roman, but plenty of trees here. :) NH is 2nd in trees in the US (Maine is 1st.) They are my neighbors on all sides. I'm so blessed. 🌲🌲🌲
I checked that website; it's superb. On the scent issue, you can produce natural scents with essential oils and coconut oil. See allure.com for suggestions, but beware of synthetic scents.
I'm a total label reader and try to make most of my own skincare products so I know what's in them. Kate doesn't have anything synthetic in the Chaga creme. I just looked on the jar. I don't even like using essential oils anymore. I think they're way overused (in everything) and not as harmless as people think.
Barbara, I’ve had similar experiences. Can you share your source for the chaga cream?
Hi Cathleen, I get it from a wonderful herbalist in Upstate NY. Lots of other great ingredients, of course. https://woodlandessence.com/products/chaga-creme
Many thanks, Barbara Sinclair!😊 I’ve got English/Irish/Dutch (Northern European) skin. I’ve also had my face cut up, plus lots of freezing off precancerous things with the nitrogen gun. Did the chaga cream help out at all with brown spots on your face?
You're welcome! Well, I have one and so far, no, but I'm not very regular applying the cream. I think I'll give it another try! :)
WOW what a great article. This is an article to be printed and saved. I do not wear sunglasses or sun screen. I am sure to get out in the sun everyday. In the winter I do take Vit. D because I hate the cold and do not get out everyday. There is so much info packed into this article and links I am going to go through it all again and I will share on my Substack. It will be a good break from the usual info I share.Thanks.
Thank you so much Karen for your feedback! I hear you in the cold. Vitamin D is tricky- all about balancing with K2 and A so our bones don’t get calcified. Any questions- feel free to reach out.. Thanks again for your support!
D3 can be a ingredient in rat poison.
I use A and K2 as well.
Nice! If you can stomach it, fermented cod liver oil has the perfect A/D/K2 balance
I took CLO for a number of years but stopped after the fermented came out...I tried it based on Westin A Price info regarding regular CLO being rancid. But ugh, I couldn’t stand it. What brand do you take and what are your thoughts on fermented bs regular CLO?
Oops fermented CLO!!!*
thanks for asking Cynthia. I've read that rancid CLO can do way more harm, so I like the fermented one - Blue Ice by Green Pastures. They have it in pill form. I like the orange flavor, although you may still get some fish burps after (:
Oh, I didn’t know about the pill form! I think it’s been quite a long time since I bought it in the jar. Fish burps come w the CLO territory 🤣
Iodine (Lugol's) was a health rabbit-hole I went down about 16 years ago, as I was clearly very ill...but for no reason that my doctor could discern.
I worked myself up, over a couple of years, to 50mg (milligrams) of elemental iodine daily, along with recommended co-factors of vitamin C, salt, selenium and mag.
I did feel somewhat better. My immune system woke up. But it wasn't the full story.
Then I discovered how desperately low in magnesium I was. Still working on that.
I don't take iodine regularily at this point, but I am thinking I should start again.
A lot of synthetic vitamins have questionable ingredients.
Very interesting. We ditched sunscreen and Vit D years ago. I once burned very easily, and certainly can still burn, but I am much less prone than before. Increasing my desperately low cellular magnesium levels seemed to help, as did iodine supplementation
Thanks so much for sharing your story Jaye! Amazing how our skin responds when we give it what it needs. Curious- how much/often do you take iodine?
I like to listen to this while sitting in the early morning sun.
Thanks Renee! I’m honoured to be part of your sunrise ritual 👊.Would love to know what you found most insightful about the article?
The part about FM radio was news to me.
Thanks so much Renee! Crazy, right? Good to know what you found insightful- thanks again. As always- feel free to ask if you have any questions.