The SUN

Don't get your climate panties in a wad.

I’ve been considering this thing that’s kind of a big deal.

I realize that the suspense is probably killing you, so I’ll just tell you.

It’s the sun.

Perhaps you recall from my previous post that my dad was a dermatologist and passed away from melanoma. I have spent most of my life assuming that sun exposure is to be avoided, and sunscreen will save your life. This has been a basic assumption for me; at the top of the proof, if you will. My dad ultimately succumbed to melanoma, despite his life’s work as a dermatologist. But he didn’t wear sunscreen as a child, and he grew up in south Alabama and Florida...so that explained it.

Over the past three years, I have come to question some of these basic assumptions. I’ve become intrigued by entertaining the implications of alternative theories, a strategy that has served me well.

For example, I didn’t take the covid vaccine and neither did my boys, therefore → I’m not particularly worried about a lot of scary shit and we aren’t getting covid repeatedly.

This was a wildly unpopular inquiry of the basic assumptions that:

1. our regulatory agencies have our best interests at heart and

2. vaccines are safe and effective

It has turned out to be a valuable inquiry. One that encouraged me to question some of my other basic assumptions. For instance, based on the knowledge I now have regarding the co-dependant, immeshed relationship between our government and various industries, I no longer feel confident assuming that anything touted as safe and effective, actually is. Especially if:

1. it’s making a bunch of money under the hospices of health

2. it’s consider accepted truth/ unacceptable to question

3. it’s recommended by our government

As I consider the fallout from the flagrantly naïve uptake of false assumptions over the past three years, I will make no apologies for my following musings. Before I go down a (probably deeper than you care to go) rabbit hole, I want to mention that the sunscreen religion is vaguely reminiscent of the vaccine religion. Or the saturated fat/cholesterol causes heart disease religion.

Sun-fear and sunscreen religion, coupled with the complete inversion of light exposure in modern human existence, has created a vast expanse of dysregulated systems, primed for illness, disease, and death.

If I were a terribly nefarious procurer of the devil’s work, I would think to my horrible self, “Terrible-nefarious-devil-self, how could I negatively affect the most people? What thing effects everyone? ” 🤔

Food, water, and air are already taken…why not villian-ize

They’d never do THAT though…

For years, the controversial idea of solar geoengineering—lofting long-lived reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to block sunlight and diminish global warming—has been theoretical. It's starting to get real: Today, after much technical and regulatory wrangling, Harvard University scientists are proposing a June 2021 test flight of a research balloon designed to drop small amounts of chalky dust and observe its effects. (Science.org)

Gates and other private donors are backing Harvard University’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, which will soon launch a new study researching the efficacy of blocking sunlight from reaching Earth’s surface. (PopularMechanic)

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Humans are incredibly dependent on the sun for survival and growth, maybe you’ve heard that. It provides heat and light that animals and plants need to survive and thrive, as well as essential vitamin D, and melatonin. Additionally, sunshine boosts levels of serotonin - the body's natural happy hormone - making us feel happier and more energized when the sun shines, but it’s probably not that big of a deal. Finally, it warms our seas, stirs our atmosphere, generates our weather patterns and gives energy to us on Earth, but fuck that fireball, because climate change.

Dr. Richard J. Wurtman, professor of endocrinology and metabolism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked out the daily cycle of melatonin secretion and has been studying the biological effects of light for nearly two decades. He believes that ''we are all unwitting subjects of a long-term experiment on the effects of artificial lighting on health.” source

They NEVER do secret long-term experiments on innocent people though, so if they were doing it they definitely didn’t know they were doing it.

Let’s continue….as it turns out, the sun has impacted evolution, but that probably means it’s a pretty minor factor.

The sun is essential to our healthy development and our immune systems, because sun-exposed skin produces Vitamin D. During the long-ranging human exodus from Africa, says anthropologist Nina Jablonski, Vitamin D levels in the body played a key role: driving the evolution of our species' skin color.

Jablonski said, Humans living near the equator developed darker skin tones, while those in northern climates developed lighter hues. High humidity also decreases UVB levels, as marked by the contrast between skin tones of early humans living in dry equatorial Africa and moist equatorial South America.

The dearth of UVB rays in northern climates put positive evolutionary pressure on early migratory humans to ramp up Vitamin D production, Jablonski noted. And indeed, fair-skinned people of European descent are nearly six times more efficient at making Vitamin D from UVB rays than those living near the equator. (source)

[It has] Biologic effects such as regulating epidermal cell growth and reducing risk of skin cancer. One product, lumisterol_3, if converted to 1,25-dihydroxylumisterol₃ may have anti-tumor effects in the skin.³⁷ Some of the suprasterols also have antiproliferative activity in cultured human keratinocytes. Therefore sensible sun exposure to produce previtamin D₃, vitamin D₃ and its photoproducts may have some additional benefits above and beyond simply taking a vitamin D₃ supplement or ingesting vitamin D₃ from dietary sources. (source)

So to recap, humans’ largest organ (the skin) evolved to mitigate Vitamin D production.

Seems notable, but who am I?

I highly recommend checking out Mathew Crawford’s article: Melatonin - the Hormone of Both Sun and Darkness - Protects Your Health and Can Save Your Life:

Melatonin is a key regulator of health with an almost infinite number of functions. It is one of the strongest antioxidants. It has, for example, strong immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, anticancer, antihypertensive, anticoagulant, lipid-lowering, antidiabetic, anti-anxiety, anti-fatigue, antiviral, antibacterial, antiparasitic, anti-epileptic, neuro-protective, athero-protective, cardio-protective, liver-protective, ocular-protective, bone-protective, lung-protective, intestinal-protective and pain-relieving effects. 

Thousands of studies demonstrate the strong health-promoting effects of melatonin. I invite you to read this article which summarizes the most important and most recent  results of melatonin research and provides an overview of diseases and conditions that may be prevented or treated by this hormone. Most of the presented results are so new and/or still so widely unknown among the public that you will be one of the first people to learn about them. They are highly fascinating and the available data makes clear that millions of annual deaths from various causes could be prevented by melatonin.

Melatonin

• Melatonin exists in two main forms within the body – circulatory melatonin, which is produced by the pineal gland and has its major effect on sleep and the circadian rhythm, and subcellular melatonin, which is produced and used locally by the mitochondria within our cells

• Circadian rhythms are physical, mental and behavioral changes that follow a 24-hour cycle. The most important and well-known of these circadian rhythms is your sleep-wake cycle. These natural processes respond primarily to light and dark. Your pineal gland secretes the highest levels of melatonin during the night and minimal amounts during the day.

• Production of melatonin can be triggered through exposure to the infrared spectrum of light – sunshine is our major source of infrared light, but it can also come from exposure to fire (campfire, candle flames, fireplace, etc.) and some red-light therapy (source)

Melatonin has a lot to do with sleep. In case you are wondering about the history of sleep(and light) and why it’s important, you’re in luck, I have a brief history for your nerding pleasure. Now, let’s look at some interesting shit regarding sleep evolution (turns out, sleep is also important):

2018:  CDC:  A third of US adults report that they usually get less than the recommended amount of sleep. Not getting enough sleep is linked with many chronic diseases and conditions—such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and depression—that threaten our nation’s health. Not getting enough sleep can lead to motor vehicle crashes and mistakes at work, which cause a lot of injury and disability each year. Getting enough sleep is not a luxury—it is something people need for good health. Sleep disorders can also increase a person’s risk of health problems.

Diabetes

Research has found that insufficient sleep is linked to an increased risk for the development of Type 2 diabetes. Specifically, sleep duration and quality have emerged as predictors of levels of Hemoglobin A1c, an important marker of blood sugar control. Recent research suggests that optimizing sleep duration and quality may be important means of improving blood sugar control in persons with Type 2 diabetes.¹

Cardiovascular Disease

Persons with sleep apnea have been found to be at increased risk for a number of cardiovascular diseases. Notably, hypertension, stroke, coronary heart disease and irregular heartbeats (cardiac arrhythmias) have been found to be more common among those with disordered sleep than their peers without sleep abnormalities. Likewise, sleep apnea and hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis) appear to share some common physiological characteristics, further suggesting that sleep apnea may be an important predictor of cardiovascular disease.²

Obesity

Laboratory research has found that short sleep duration results in metabolic changes that may be linked to obesity. Epidemiologic studies conducted in the community have also revealed an association between short sleep duration and excess body weight. This association has been reported in all age groups—but has been particularly pronounced in children. It is believed that sleep in childhood and adolescence is particularly important for brain development and that insufficient sleep in youngsters may adversely affect the function of a region of the brain known as the hypothalamus, which regulates appetite and the expenditure of energy.³

Depression

The relationship between sleep and depression is complex. While sleep disturbance has long been held to be an important symptom of depression, recent research has indicated that depressive symptoms may decrease once sleep apnea has been effectively treated and sufficient sleep restored. The interrelatedness of sleep and depression suggests it is important that the sleep sufficiency of persons with depression be assessed and that symptoms of depression be monitored among persons with a sleep disorder. ^{4, 5}

To check in again…the sun was a huge factor in the evolution of our largest organ AND it plays an important role in the production of MELATONIN which is a huge factor in our SLEEP.

Sleep, is one of our largest consumables as humans; second only to air and…wait for it….LIGHT. There’s that damn fireball again, just being…

→ IMPORTANT AF ←

So what else?

Oh, just TESTOSTERONE, but nobody cares about that, amiright?!?!?

Men receive a 69% boost in testosterone when exposed to an hour of sunlight. Consequently, during winter months there is a sharp dip in vitamin D absorption as well as testosterone. Men who maintain a minimum of 30 nanograms of vitamin D per milliliter of blood have substantially higher levels of testosterone than those who do not. (source)

It is SO WEIRD that I haven’t heard any fanfare about men getting more sun exposure to increase testosterone levels. I mean, 69% boost is pretty compelling. You know what I HAVE heard a lot about? Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT). I wonder why (free) sunlight isn’t the first stop 🤔

The global testosterone replacement therapy market for the historical period 2017–2018 and forecast period 2019–2027, increasing incidence of testosterone deficiency, growing awareness among people regarding testosterone replacement therapy and significant pipeline of medications, are projected to drive the global testosterone replacement therapy market during the forecast period. (source)

The global hormone replacement therapy (HRT) market size was valued at USD 20,462.6 million in 2021 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.4% from 2022 to 2030. (source)

Well…THANK GOODNESS we are wearing sunscreen, often everyday, to protect us from the sun while we aren’t really spending time outside.

The study, The Nature of Americans National Report, found that more than half of adults reported spending five hours or less in nature each week, and being satisfied with this small amount of time spent outdoors. Parents of children 8 to 12 years old said that their children spend three times as many hours with computers and televisions each week as they do playing outside. (source)

3-5 hrs/week is probably similar to how we evolved….

→Sunscreen is a multibillion-dollar industry, and its efficacy in the prevention of skin cancer is often taken as fact. Despite this, there are only 4 prospective studies that examine sunscreen's role in preventing skin cancer, and none of these studies examine the efficacy of sunscreen in preventing skin cancer in otherwise healthy individuals.(source)

Sunscreens were designed to absorb solar UVB radiation.⁴⁷ A sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 30 absorbs approximately 95–98% of solar UVB radiation. Therefore the topical application of a sunscreen with an SPF of 30 reduces the capacity of the skin to produce vitamin D₃ by the same amount i.e., 95–98%.²² This was confirmed with the report that the application of sunscreen with a SPF of only 8 dramatically reduced the blood level of vitamin D₃ after exposure to simulated sunlight in a tanning bed (Fig. 30).^47,48 Farmers in the Midwest who had a history of non-melanoma skin cancer and who wore a sunscreen all the time before going outdoors for more than a year demonstrated that at the end of the summer their blood levels were significantly lower (most were vitamin D deficient) than the levels of the control group (Fig. 31).⁴⁸

In the United States, inverse associations with exposure to solar UVB radiation and cancer risk and mortality were reported for ovarian⁸⁰ and breast cancer,⁸¹ cancers of the digestive system^79,82 and prostate cancer.^83,84 A meta-analysis of studies reporting cancer incidence rates for more than 100 countries including Australia, China, Japan, Spain among others revealed an inverse relationship with solar UVB exposure for 15 types of cancer including bladder, breast, cervical, colon, endometrial, esophageal, gastric, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, rectal, renal and vulvar cancer as well as Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.⁸⁵ Boscoe and Schymura⁸⁶ found that the relative risk of cancer incidence and mortality for numerous malignancies was strongly related to solar UVB exposure (Fig. 55).

She concluded that women who had the most sun exposure from ages 10 to 19 y reduced their risk of developing breast cancer by more than 60% when comparing the highest quartile of outdoor activities with the lowest. (Knight JA, Lesosky M, Barnett H, Raboud JM, Vieth R. Vitamin D and reduced risk of breast cancer: a population-based case-control study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2007;16:422–9. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-06-0865. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar] [Ref list])

Moreover, although excessive sun exposure is an established risk factor for cutaneous malignant melanoma, continued high sun exposure was linked with increased survival rates in patients with early-stage melanoma in a study reported by Marianne Berwick, an epidemiology professor at the University of New Mexico, in the February 2005 Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Holick also points out that most melanomas occur on the least sun-exposed areas of the body, and occupational exposure to sunlight actually reduced melanoma risk in a study reported in the June 2003 Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

In the context of inadequate sunlight or vitamin D insufficiency, some scientists worry that the emphasis on preventing skin cancers tends to obscure the much larger mortality burden posed by more life-threatening cancers such as lung, colon, and breast cancers. Many studies have shown that cancer-related death rates decline as one moves toward the lower latitudes (between 37°N and 37°S), and that the levels of ambient UVR in different municipalities correlate inversely with cancer death rates there. “As you head from north to south, you may find perhaps two or three extra deaths [per hundred thousand people] from skin cancer,” says Vieth. “At the same time, though, you’ll find thirty or forty fewer deaths for the other major cancers. So when you estimate the number of deaths likely to be attributable to UV light or vitamin D, it does is not appear to be the best policy to advise people to simply keep out of the sun just to prevent skin cancer.”

As diurnal creatures, we humans are programmed to be outdoors while the sun is shining and home in bed at night. This is why melatonin is produced during the dark hours and stops upon optic exposure to daylight. This pineal hormone is a key pacesetter for many of the body’s circadian rhythms. It also plays an important role in countering infection, inflammation, cancer, and auto-immunity, according to a review in the May 2006 issue of Current Opinion in Investigational Drugs. Finally, melatonin suppresses UVR-induced skin damage, according to research in the July 2005 issue of Endocrine.

Sunscreen is the martyr of the cosmetic industry. It’s for your own good…and your children’s. Do it for yourself. And the ones you love.

Sunscreen is a multibillion-dollar industry, and its efficacy in the prevention of skin cancer is often taken as fact. Despite this, there are only 4 prospective studies that examine sunscreen's role in preventing skin cancer, and none of these studies examine the efficacy of sunscreen in preventing skin cancer in otherwise healthy individuals

The global sun care products market size was $13.03 billion in 2019 & is projected to reach $16.84 billion by 2027, at a CAGR of 3.5% in the forecast period

Read More at:- https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/sun-care-products-market-103821

The sun care products market is projected to witness a CAGR of 3.48% in the upcoming five years.

The market is anticipated to be one of the fastest-growing segments within the personal care industry, driven by the rise in consumer awareness related to skin cancer and aging associated with exposure to UV rays. The demand for self–tanning products is expected to surge in the foreseeable future, and most of the need is likely to be concentrated across North America and Europe.​

Well…AT LEAST sunscreen is safe and effective like our vaccines.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) showed that four active ingredients commonly used in sunscreens — avobenzone, ecamsule, octocrylene, and oxybenzone — were absorbed into the bloodstream at high enough levels to trigger the need for additional safety studies.

Melanoma rates in the U.S. have tripled since the 1970s, even as the use of sunscreen has increased.

Researchers have known for at least two decades that the chemicals in many sunscreens get into the blood and potentially cause harm. “The American public should be furious that the active ingredients in these products have not been adequately tested for safety,” said Andrews.

Crown Laboratories is a Johnson City-based pharmaceutical manufacturer that has been making Blue Lizard Australian Sunscreen for more than a decade.¹ However, there is currently a proposed class action suit in California federal court that alleges Crown Laboratories has misled consumers with a "mineral-based" label on its Blue Lizard sunscreen when, in fact, it contains octisalate and octinoxate.⁰

Neutrogena Corporation is owned by Johnson & Johnson and is headquartered in Los Angeles.⁰¹

JOHNSON & JOHNSON

Johnson & Johnson has been slapped with a class-action lawsuit after the pharmaceutical giant announced that it was recalling five of its spray sunscreens due to the presence of a cancer-causing chemical in some samples.

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue a recall after detecting benzene, a known human carcinogen, in 78 batches of sunscreen and after-sun products.

According to a 2018 publication from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the chemical is classified by the World Health Organization as a Group 1 carcinogen, indicating that there is strong evidence tying it to DNA damage and other changes that cause cancer in humans. And the FDA classifies it as a Category 1 solvent, meaning it shouldn't be used to manufacture drugs or drug products unless it's unavoidable.(source)

Don’t worry though, I’m sure they’re innocent. J&J’s track record is suuuuuper clean:

Facing thousands of lawsuits alleging that its talc caused cancer, J&J insists on the safety and purity of its iconic product. But internal documents examined by Reuters show that the company's powder was sometimes tainted with carcinogenic asbestos and that J&J kept that information from regulators and the public. (Source)

And whatdyaknow….

J&J has a strong franchise in cancer drugs that is one of the fastest-growing pieces of the healthcare giant. Ten years ago, the company sold about $2 billion worth of cancer drugs a year, J&J’s head of cancer therapies Peter Lebowitz told Barron’s. Sales topped $12 billion last year. In this year’s March quarter, oncology product sales rose 15% (adjusted for currencies), to $3.6 billion.(Source)

I am like, waaayyyy past the email length thing at this point, so ima just go for it. You know I had to bring it up.

COVID.

I’m sure THE SUN has NOTHING to do with covid outcomes.

Make sure you stay inside. For the greater good.

Conclusions: The datasets provide strong evidence that low D3 is a predictor rather than just a side effect of the infection. Despite ongoing vaccinations, we recommend raising serum 25(OH)D levels to above 50 ng/mL to prevent or mitigate new outbreaks due to escape mutations or decreasing antibody activity.

In this publication, we will demonstrate that vitamin D3 deficiency, which is a well-documented worldwide problem [13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20], is one of the main reasons for severe courses of SARS-CoV-2 infections. The fatality rates correlate well with the findings that elderly people, black people, and people with comorbidities show very low vitamin D3 levels [16,21,22,23]. Additionally, with only a few exceptions, we are facing the highest infection rates in the winter months and in northern countries, which are known to suffer from low vitamin D3 levels due to low endogenous sun-triggered vitamin D3 synthesis [24,25,26,27].

This study illustrates that, at a time when vaccination was not yet available, patients with sufficiently high D3 serum levels preceding the infection were highly unlikely to suffer a fatal outcome. The partial risk at this D3 level seems to vanish under the normal statistical mortality risk for a given age and in light of given comorbidities. This correlation should have been good news when vaccination was not available but instead was widely ignored. Nonetheless, this result may offer hope for combating future variants of the rapidly changing virus as well as the dreaded breakthrough infections, in which severe outcomes have been seen in 10.5% of the vaccinated versus 26.5% of the unvaccinated group [164], with breakthrough even being fatal in 2% of cases [165].

How could they have known though….

It is known for example that influenza infection is most prevalent in the winter months at latitudes North and South of the equator but is sporadic throughout the year in children and adults who live near the equator (Fig. 60). It has been hypothesized that the seasonal variation could be due to a seasonal variation in circulating levels of 25(OH)D.¹¹⁹

So I’ve heard that there are some “adverse events” associated with some recent stuff…you know “covid” and “long covid” (and/or the bioweapon injections).

Shhhhhhh. We don’t say it very loud…but….heart issues meeebbbee are happening at an accelerated rate. The sun couldn’t help that thought, right?

In 1997 Rostand et al.¹⁵⁹ reported that there was an inverse association with latitude and blood pressure (Fig. 68) and the prevalence of hypertension (Fig. 69). This was followed by the observation of Krause et al.¹⁶⁰ who reported that exposure to UVB radiation in a clinical setting not only improved circulating concentrations of 25(OH)D by more than 160% but also significantly reduced both systolic and diastolic blood pressure in patients with hypertension. A control group was exposed to the same UV lamps that were covered by an acrylic shield absorbing all UVB radiation and thus was exposed to UVA radiation only. The control group’s subjects demonstrated no significant change in their circulating concentrations of 25(OH)D as well as no change in their hypertension (Fig. 70). These data suggested that vitamin D may somehow be involved in cardiovascular health.

There have been a multitude of association studies suggesting that vitamin D deficiency not only increases risk for a myocardial infarction by as much as 50% but also was associated with more than one 100% increased risk of mortality from the heart attack.^{73,106,163-168} In the US an estimated 50 million teenagers are vitamin D deficient or insufficient and this was associated with a 2.4 fold increased risk for high blood pressure

Several epidemiologic studies and prospective studies have reported a highly significant association with vitamin D deficiency with not only type 2 diabetes but also hypertension, hyperlipidemia and peripheral vascular disease all causative factors for coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke.^166,175,179

Beta islet cells in the pancreas have a VDR and 1,25(OH)₂D₃ is a potent stimulator of insulin production.¹⁸² Improvement in vitamin D status has also been associated with improvement in insulin sensitivity¹⁸³ mediated by upregulation of insulin receptors.¹⁸⁴

So there’s this study from 2013:

The lack of appreciation of the importance of sensible sun exposure for providing children and adults with their vitamin D requirement has led to a worldwide vitamin D deficiency pandemic.^22,173

It has been estimated that as much as 25% of health care dollars could be saved just by improving the world’s vitamin D status.⁷⁸

aussie17 @_aussie17

1. Read this thread to understand why your doctor prescribes a specific drug to you! In Pharma, every doctor is considered a "customer". We influence doctors to write prescriptions. There are many ways to influence a doctor and every way comes with a cost.

Dr. Panda:

Ladies and gentlemen the latest CDC health advisory is warning about a sharp rise in serious gastrointestinal infections caused by the drug-resistant bacteria, Shigella. It sounds like MonkeyPox 2.0 - it's an STD affecting mostly gay men.

A health advisory late last month said the CDC is monitoring an increase in people infected with an extensively drug-resistant strain (XDR) of Shigella. The CDC says, “XDR shigellosis is a serious public health threat.”

What about drug-resistant or multidrug-resistant bacterial infections? 

They are a leading cause of death, with more than 1 million fatalities around the globe. These infections are deadlier than malaria or HIV. The 6 leading pathogens responsible for deaths due to antibiotic drug-resistance are Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (43).

Strikingly, melatonin may also help overcome antibiotic drug resistance in gram-negative pathogens like Escherichia coli: 

Many other data shows the (potential) ability of melatonin to fight other deadly viral diseases which are responsible for thousands or even millions of deaths like venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, viral hepatitis, west nile virus, respiratory syncytial virus (40)(41). 

Influenza infections which also cause hundreds of thousands of global deaths per year, can likely be treated with melatonin (42). Although there are no clinical trials yet that investigated the effect of melatonin on influenza outcomes, based on all available data, it is likely that melatonin could also support and accelerate the recovery of influenza patients. 

Oh and this…but since cancer rates are only skyrocketing, it’s probably not notable:

Melatonin hates cancer cells and cancer cells hate melatonin.

If you want to grow cancer cells in a petri dish, make sure not to add melatonin. 

Melatonin (20 mg daily or more) has also been used successfully as a treatment. The newest meta-analysis of RCT´s shows that the tumor remission rate was significantly higher in the melatonin group than in the control group (relative risk [RR] =2.25; 95% CI, 1.86-2.71; P<0.00001; I 2=9%). 

“Based on the above meta-analysis results, it was concluded that MLT, as an adjuvant for the treatment of tumors, can effectively improve the remission rate and overall survival rate of tumor patients…”  (51)

Interestingly, a study from 2021 indicates that melatonin and vitamin D have synergistic effects in cancer prevention and treatment. For example, an in vitro study suggests that the combination of melatonin + vitamin D is much more effective in the treatment of breast cancer than the single administration of either melatonin or vitamin D alone. 

Got GERD?

GERD patents received a daily combination of 6 mg melatonin, 200 mg l-tryptophan, 50 mcg vitamin B12, 100 mg methionine, 10 mg betaine and 25 mg folate. Strikingly, after only seven days, 90% of the patients taking the melatonin/micronutrient combination experienced relief, suggesting that it works extremely fast. 

At the end of the study, after 40 days, ALL of the patients (100%) who received the melatonin/micronutrient combination reported a complete regression of GERD symptoms. In the omeprazole group, only 66% reported complete regression (114). 

As in the case of many other melatonin studies that are described in this article, it is highly surprising that these results have not been shared widely. Millions of people are still taking dangerous PPIs to treat their GERD symptoms, just because no one told them that there is another way. A much more effective and much safer way. 

Final thoughts:

As long as our species has been here, so has the sun. Back to basic assumptions.

The hubris of assuming that we can grasp the relationship our systems’ have with the sun is stunning.

Humans are literally wilting.

Gardens need water, food, and LIGHT to grow.

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Nurture your garden.

Question everything.

And DO NOT COMPLY.

If you made it this far…..please watch this: