Vitamin D Producing UVB Rays from the Sun

The sun’s rays that shine down upon us are UVA and UVB ultraviolet rays.

But only the UVB rays are vitamin D producing when they hit your skin.

Little known is that everyone living north of 35° latitude will get no UVB rays between the months of November through March because of the angle of the sun.

To give you some prospective, New York City, NY is in 40° latitude and Flagstaff, AZ is in 35° latitude.  Fully two/thirds of the U.S and all of Canada are above the 35° latitude mark.

As a further reference, the equator is at 0° latitude and gets the benefit of the highest level of the sun’s UVB rays, whereas the North Pole is at 90° latitude and gets the least benefit.

We do not get the same amount of UVB rays year round. As the seasons change, so does the angle of the sun’s rays.

In the summer, with the sun directly overhead, we get the maximum number of UVB rays.  As the season moves toward winter, we get fewer and fewer rays and in the winter, if you live in 35° latitude and above, you will get no UVB rays at all.

To make matters even worse, members of the medical profession, on advice of dermatologists, warned of malignant skin cancer from exposure to sun light.

Their advice was to cover up and load up on sun-block when you are in the sun.

For fear of getting skin cancer, most people today stay in the shade, cover up with protective clothing when they are in the sun and coat the exposed parts of their body with sun-block.

This guarantees that no UVB rays will ever penetrate their skin.

Result:  The world is full of sick people due to rampant deficiencies of Vitamin D-3.

Dark and Black Skinned People —- Pay Attention!

The melanin (color) content in your skin plays an important role in vitamin D deficiency.  The darker your skin, the more melanin content your skin has and the less vitamin D your body will produce with sun exposure.

People with dark or black skin are, therefore, at greater risk.  It is harder for them to produce vitamin D-3 in their skin.

People who have dark or black skin need up to 10 times the amount of sun than light-skinned people need to absorb vitamin D in their skin.  Many scientific studies have shown that black skinned people have staggering rates of vitamin D deficiency which seriously impacts their health.

FACT:  Vitamin D-3 is a hormone and not a vitamin.  It impacts 32 organs in your body as well as tissues and cells.  It also seriously impacts your heart and bones.

FACT:  Science has proven that vitamin D-3 impacts 105 different diseases and conditions of the body.

FACT:  Dermatologist’s warnings against exposing ourselves to the sun led to a huge increase in the use of sun-block.  Skin cancer has increased more than 3 fold since that announcement.

FACT:  Sun-block can block the sun’s health producing UVB vitamin D rays.

FACT:  Sun-block cannot block the sun’s cancer producing UVA rays that can occur through long exposure.

FACT:  Science has proven conclusively through a multitude of tests that we need Vitamin D-3 to prevent a whole host of cancers! And very specifically, cancers of the breast, colon, and prostate!

FACT:  400 IU a day of vitamin D-3 will prevent Rickets (a deformity of the bones).  That is where the government’s %DV (Daily Value) came from.

FACT:  Science has proven that the government’s %DV recommendation is far too low to prevent cancer, respiratory diseases, MS, other auto-immune, heart diseases,and osteoporosis, etc.  According to science, the minimum daily need for adults is 5000 IU to 10,000 IU of vitamin D-3 to maintain good health.

FACT:  Air pollution can dramatically block the healthy UVB sun rays from reaching us.

FACT:  Cloud cover can cut healthy UVB rays by 50%.

FACT: The best time of day to get the most UVB rays from the sun is between 10am to 2pm.

FACT:  Sitting in front of a window with full sunshine will give you no vitamin D benefit.  Vitamin D forming UVB rays do not penetrate glass.  Only UVA rays can penetrate glass.

FACT:  You cannot eat enough fish, eggs, or fortified cereals to get adequate—let alone optimal—amounts of vitamin D-3.

Vitamin D in food is inadequate to reap health benefits.   The best source of vitamin D-3 today is supplementation.

Our lifestyles limit our exposure to the sun even in the months UVB rays are available to us.  Most of our activities are indoors.

Work, TV, play, computers, etc.  Most people still fear skin cancer and will continue to cover up and use sun-block.  Even in countries close to 0° latitude people are vitamin D-3 deficient because they cover up.

The following list of vitamin D content in food is from the National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements:

•    Cod-liver oil, 1 tablespoon.                1,360 IU
•    Salmon, cooked, 3.5 ounces                    360 IU
•    Mackerel, cooked, 3.5 ounces                    345 IU
•    Tuna fish, canned in oil, 3 ounces                200 IU
•    Sardines, canned in oil, drained, 1.75 ounces            250 IU
•    Milk, nonfat, low fat and whole.  D fortified.  1 cup         98  IU
•    Ready to eat cereal.  Fortified 10% daily RDA for D         40  IU
•    Liver, beef, cooked, 3.5 ounces.                                          15  IU
•    Egg, 1 whole (vitamin D found in yolk)                 20  IU
•    Cheese, Swiss, 1 ounce.                                              12 IU

Now that I pointed out the many pitfalls you face in acquiring and maintaining optimal levels of life sustaining vitamin D-3, it gives me pleasure to present you with the Easy Solution to a Huge Health Problem.

Just take our inexpensive liquid Mirimmune Super D-3 @10,000 IU per dropper squeese.

It will charge up your body and raise your immune system to optimum levels as you smile the smile of good health throughout life!

It’s all about nutrition and it’s there for the taking.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

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