Full-Spectrum
Light - Energy and Health Builder
Source:
heall.com
by Joseph G.
Hattersley
February,
2000
This paper
enlarges and updates my article on full-spectrum light in
Price-Pottenger Health Journal, Winter 1995. Recent research, not yet
incorporated into this paper, fully supports the statements made here
and conclusions reached.
America has
a phobia--an irrational fear--about ultraviolet (UV) light. In a new
science fad, unwise practices are being urged on us. The resulting
sickness and misbehavior will mystify yet enrich physicians,
psychiatrists, dentists and criminal specialists, as well as
pharmaceutical drug companies.
In too many
scientific and medical fields, for a lot of researchers the truth is
defined only in relationship to the next grant, peer pressure and the
fight to further an entrenched view. This essentially political process
goes on despite any--in this case very strong--evidence to the contrary.
Much "science" research is known to be fraudulent. Such a flow
of funded research almost exclusively in one direction is characteristic
of potentially dangerous science fads. Almost all "scientists"
are out to prove something so as to continue their careers; to them,
finding the truth is only secondary.
UV
(ultraviolet) intensity is now forecast in population centers daily. The
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggests when outdoors we
"protect ourselves against ultraviolet light whenever we can see
our shadow." And many physicians give their patients the same
warning.
This is
terrible advice. If man were a machine, doctor could repair or replace
one part without worrying about the rest of the contraption. Man is no
machine, but more like a web or hologram. Every organ and every part
affects, and in fact cells in every part communicate with, all the other
parts.
As a result
of the EPA's kind of advice, which is based on junk science, use of
sunglasses is epidemic; we hide behind stylish darkened car windows, we
slather our skin with sunscreen for even brief sun exposure. People who
engage in these practices are ruining their disposition and health.
Disposition: see footnote. Health: read on.
The phobia
arose after investigators anesthetized animals, propped their eyes open
and shined intense UV light into them. Their retinas were damaged. And
excessive exposure to one kind of ultraviolet (shorter-wave, germicidal
UV-C) can damage tissue. UV-C may (but it may not) be present
increasingly in sunlight with the purported thinning of the protective
ozone layer. (It is also found in tanning salons and halogen lamps. )
But EPA makes the ridiculous leap from that truth to the conclusion that
we should avoid all UV.
In fact, the
trace amounts of UV radiation in natural daylight are required for
physical and mental health, civilized behavior, muscle strength, energy
and learning. Sunlight, in moderation, improves immunity and stimulates
our metabolism while decreasing food craving, and increases our
intelligence.
 
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is made by Durotest Lighting. It is a full spectrum light, like the
natural light of the sun. You can buy at www.full-spectrum-lighting.com
SIDEBAR:
Even low exposure to UVB significantly increases risk of cataracts. But
that happens only while consuming a Western junk food diet rich in
unsaturated fats and their oxidized products. But those who consume a
more sensible diet and supplement vitamins C and E do not get cataracts
even from lengthy sun exposure.
Starting
from a high school hobby of time-lapse photography, John N. Ott, Sc.D.
Hon., founded the new science of photobiology. Now over 90, he is still
active. Among many publications, Dr. Ott's latest book is Light,
Radiation and You: How to Stay Healthy. Greenwich, CT: Devin-Adair
Publishers, 1990.
"Mankind
adapted to the full range of the solar spectrum," he wrote,
"and artificial distortions of that spectrum-malillumination, a
condition analogous to malnutrition--may have biologic effects."
"There are neurochemical channels from the retina to the pineal and
pituitary glands, the master glands of the whole endocrine system that
controls the production and release of hormones. This regulates your
body chemistry and its growth, all organs of your body including your
brain, and how they function."
The critical
reader will justly ask, Where are the controlled, scientific tests
supporting Dr. Ott's statements? The answer to that question: Who can
make money promoting sunlight? Think about it.
I. First
let's consider health effects of ultraviolet (UV) deprivation. Malignant
melanoma, the dangerous kind of what is called skin cancer--it is
ultimately fatal if not corrected--is often alarmingly but wrongly
blamed on sun exposure. A study by the U.S. Navy found the most melanoma
in people who work indoors all the time. Those who worked both outdoors
and indoors some of the time had the lowest incidence. Also, most
melanomas appear on parts of the body that are seldom exposed to
sunlight. The inference is that both very high and very low exposures to
UV light can be harmful--and moderate exposure is healthful.
Sunscreens
block out only UVA and UVB, which we all need in trace amounts, but not
the potentially dangerous, germicidal UVC; and no commercial sunscreen
has been proved safe. Their chemicals penetrate the skin into the
circulation and add to the burden of toxins to be detoxified. Commercial
sunscreens increase risk of melanoma by causing mutations when the
cells' chromosomes interact with the chemicals and the light. Natural
sunscreens, as well as commercial ones, also curtail needed uptake of
vitamin D3 from UV-B, increasing risk of the bone-thinning disease
osteoporosis (see later).
What about
sunscreens? From Lita Lee, PhD. "Mounting evidence indicates that
many of them contain carcinogens and that the rise of skin cancers
parallels the increase in sunscreen usage. The only sunscreen I
recommend is coconut oil, although believe me, you cannot slather this
oil on your skin and bake in the sun all day. Adding a little iodine to
the coconut oil for the first week of summer gives added protection;
however, do not use the iodine for more than a week as continued use
will inhibit your thyroid function. In my opinion, the only other safe
(non-carcinogenic) sunscreen would be one containing titanium
dioxide."
A study
published in the prestigious medical journal Lancet and a Russian study
found fluorescent light rather than sunlight promotes melanoma,
proportionately to the time of exposure. Among a sample of nearly 900
women, those who worked indoors under fluorescent lighting had 2.l times
higher melanoma risk (95% confidence interval, C.I., 1.32 to 3.32) than
others. Among women exposed for 20 years or more, the relative risk (RR)
was 2.6 (95% C.I. was 1.2 to 5.9).
Relative
risks were lower in women who had been most heavily exposed to sunlight,
both playing outdoors as children and sunbathing as adults. In a smaller
sample of men, the RR for fluorescent lights with 10 or more years'
exposure was 4.4. And for those who had spent the least time in the sun
while children, the RR was 7.3.
And so we
see that lengthy exposure to full-spectrum sunlight including trace-UV
partially "immunized" both men and women against later
development of melanoma. These exposures had taken place in the 1960s
and 1970s before the protective ozone layer far above us was thought to
have thinned. But that might not matter: UV penetration of the
atmosphere, some authorities say with considerable factual support, has
not increased. All this thoroughly explodes the claim that sun exposure
causes malignant melanoma.
In the years
since publication of Science's carefully researched article, no one has
refuted the finding. But many ignore it and could make more money if the
article and its information would simply go away.
Why do
fluorescent lights cause melanoma? "Emissions from such light
extend into the potentially carcinogenic range." Dr. Ott found
that, specifically, the cathodes located at the ends of the light tubes
emit X-rays and other electromagnetic pollution.
Plants
living under the central portion of long fluorescent light tubes grow
normally; but when placed close to the ends of the tubes, their growth
is abnormal and stunted. Laboratory animals placed in a cage close to
the ends of these light tubes become aggressive and cannibalistic. Also,
he found that the light from fluorescent tubes, as well as TV sets and
computer terminals, causes red blood cells to clump together after
exposure to these sources for prolonged periods. This promotes reduced
alertness and a tired feeling.
But when the
ends of the light tubes are shielded with lead and traces of UV are
added to the light, plants and animals under them grow and function
normally. And so wrapping the ends of fluorescent light tubes with lead
tape, says Dr. Ott, is fully as important as full-spectrum light itself
(See II.)
Melanoma can
also result from excessive exposure to sunlamps: their rays and those
from bright halogen lights include some of the dangerous UVC. (Halogen
lamps are also a serious fire hazard if they fall over or inflammable
material touches the extremely hot bulb.
Drinking and
swimming in chlorinated water can also cause malignant melanoma . Sodium
hypochlorite, used in chlorination of water for swimming pools, is
mutagenic in the Ames test and other mutagenicity tests. Redheads and
blonds are disproportionately melanomaprone; their skin contains a
relative excess of pheomelanins compared to darker people.
Franz H.
Rampen and his associates in the Netherlands state that the worldwide
pollution of rivers and oceans and the chlorination of swimming pool
water have promoted an increase in melanoma. Another major factor in the
increase in reported incidence of melanoma has been physicians'
continually relaxing their standards for what constitutes melanoma.
What about
oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy (HRT)?
Melanomas
have increased sharply among women in the principal Pill-taking
countries Australia, America and in Europe. In the Walnut Creek
(California) study, all the women who developed melanomas under the age
of 40 had used the Pill. By 1981, the overall increased melanoma risk
for Pill-users was statistically significant at three times. The Pill
also promotes development of heart attacks, in part by depleting body
stores of vitamin B6.
Further,
like breast cancer cells those tumors have estrogen receptors. And so
women on HRT are more likely to develop melanomas than non-users. A
recent study of 52,705 women on HRT found that the risk of breast cancer
increases by 2.3 percent for each of the 11 years the average woman
takes HRT. The good news is that the effect diminishes on stopping it
and disappears after about five years. The authors comment, "These
findings should be considered in the context of the benefits and other
risks associated with the use of HRT." Others challenge the
assumption that HRT provides benefits.
II. Certain
effects of ultraviolet deprivation are equally remarkable and tie
together with health benefits.
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natural light of the sun. You can buy at www.full-spectrum-lighting.com
In 1973,
radiation-shielded full spectrum lights were installed in five
classrooms in Sarasota, Florida. And what happened? Several extremely
hyperactive, learning-disabled children calmed down completely and
learned to read. Absenteeism dropped. The children in four
standard-lighted rooms continued to misbehave, as tracked by concealed
motion-detecting cameras; their learning disabilities and absenteeism
were unabated. And after a year students in the full-spectrum classrooms
had one-third less tooth decay than those taught under standard
lighting. Laboratory mice, which had been exposed all their waking hours
to FS light, had zero tooth decay.
Similar
findings were reported from California, Washington State, and Alberta,
Canada. A classroom comparison in Vermont found full spectrum lighting
strengthened immunity.
Why was
there so much less tooth decay after exposure to full-spectrum light
including trace UV? And why did immunity improve under FS lights?
"Every nutritional substance and medicine," says Dr. Ott,
"has a specific wavelength absorption. If those wavelengths are
missing in the artificial light source a person is exposed to, then the
nutritional or other hoped-for benefits of the substance will not be
utilized." UV functions as a nutrient and as a cofactor (substance
required for a bodily process to occur) in utilization of other
nutrients.
So the full
spectrum lights corrected the children's deficiency of vitamin D3 (which
is not the same as the toxic form of vitamin D that is added to milk),
now considered a pro-hormone. This enabled more complete calcium
absorption--and lowered risk of osteoporosis and hip fractures in later
life. Recent research has found that nearly half of people of all age
groups, taking RDA-strength supplements, have too little vitamin D. When
the body doesn't have enough of it to absorb adequate calcium from food,
it extracts calcium from bone.
FS light
also strengthens immunity in other ways. It helps protect against
multiple sclerosis, heart attacks and conversion of HIV to AIDS, among
others. These are elaborated and fully referenced in the remainder of
the paper. "Protect ourselves from ultraviolet whenever we can see
our shadow," as the EPA frighteningly warns? Won't doing that then
constitute a full-employment plan for dentists, orthopedic surgeons and
oncologists --as well as pharmaceutical drug companies?
Cancers hate
full-spectrum light. A tumor-susceptible strain of mice lived more than
twice as long under full-spectrum as under standard lighting, and rats
exposed to full-spectrum light had significantly lessened tumor
development. The tunnel-visioned National Cancer Institute and American
Cancer Society ignore these findings, which six major medical centers
have confirmed.7
Terminal
cancer patients that Dr. Ott knew of personally got well in a rocking
chair in the sunshine. Dr. Jane Wright, directing cancer research at
Bellevue Memorial Medical Center in New York City in 1959, was
fascinated by Ott's ideas. So she instructed progressive-tumor patients
to avoid artificial lights and stay outdoors as much as possible that
summer. They were not to wear sunglasses or prescription lenses, which
block UV light.
By that
fall, the tumors in 14 of 15 had not grown, and some patients got
better; the one whose condition deteriorated sat outdoors but wore
prescription lenses. Ott has been criticized for making no
scientifically controlled human studies. Well, funding for continuing
that study was withdrawn--and that has been his experience over and
over.7
One lady
with cancer ventured out with Norwegian fishermen, ate a lot of their
catch, and recovered; friends ate fish but stayed inside--and their
cancers killed them. Had she "protected" herself from UV when
she could see her shadow as EPA advises, would her cancer have ended?
And if sunloving Arizonans threw away their sunscreens and sunglasses
and limited their sun exposure to about 30 minutes a day --wouldn't
their cancers largely disappear?
A
Chicago-area elementary school suddenly reported five times the national
average incidence of leukemia, a kind of cancer of the blood. All of the
afflicted children but one were being taught in rooms where teachers
kept the blinds drawn and the children were exposed all day only to
melanoma-promoting fluorescent light. When even the amount of UV that
can get through window glass was let in, the leukemia cluster
disappeared.
Early in his
research career Dr. Ott fell and broke his glasses; soon, his arthritis
disappeared. And in 1996 Marion Patricia Connolly, executive director of
Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation had much the same experience.
Full-spectrum eyeglasses, i.e. lenses that transmit all ultraviolet
light, are difficult to find.
Exposed to
full-spectrum light, a father rat is docile and even helpful after his
babies are born. But when the same rat pair are moved under standard
light, before birth of the next litter the male must be removed to
prevent aggressiveness and cannibalism. Moved back to natural light for
still another litter, he is gentle again. Although human fathers aren't
likely to eat their babies, do we really want more domestic
aggressiveness?
Alternating
full-spectrum light and dark cured children born blind as a result of
brain injury. The technique was advocated by W.H. Bates about 1904 and
endorsed by Aldous Huxley in 1930. Efficacy was confirmed in the recent
Annual Report from the British Institute for Brain Injured Children.
Vita-Lite
is made by Durotest Lighting. It is a full spectrum light, like the
natural light of the sun. You can buy at www.full-spectrum-lighting.com
How can all
this be explained? Full-spectrum light, entering the eyes during waking
hours, promotes night-time pineal gland secretion of melatonin. This
sleep-promoting antioxidant destroys carcinogenic hydroxyl radicals--and
also slows aging. Melatonin can suppress growth of human breast cancer
cells in vitro (in a test tube), and can cross all barriers to enter
every cell. So enough sleep becomes anti-aging, antioxidant,
anti-cancer, anti-heart attack therapy!
Except in
short-term emergencies, people younger than about 50 should use
supplements of melatonin cautiously, if at all. For people over 40 to
45, in addition to its other benefits one to three milligrams before
bedtime safely promotes both prompt falling asleep and a good night's
rest.
In a
laboratory, viruses are weakened by exposure to full spectrum light
including traces of UV. Infectious organisms such as E. coli K12 AB2480,
which can cause food poisoning, dislike ultraviolet too. The Morris
Center in Winnipeg, Canada, promotes "amazing" healing by
shining full-spectrum light onto wounds.
The power of
full-spectrum light against SAD (seasonal depression)--again by entering
the eyes--has been amply demonstrated. Nonseasonal depression benefits
too, but not as much. Such light energizes and regulates the body's
entire chemistry. Won't "protecting" millions of people from
UV, as the EPA advocates, then worsen the growing epidemic of
depression? (Suicide attempts have remained constant, and so the
increase in American suicides appears to relate to increased ownership
of guns.)
The cells in
the retinas of your eyes will not divide and regenerate without a small
amount of ultraviolet light.
And so
full-spectrum lights reduce risk of retinal degeneration, the leading
cause of blindness among the elderly. Retinal hemorrhage, the most
severe phase of the condition, can also result from long-term use of
aspirin. White willow bark provides the same benefits without stomach
irritation or blindness, as does three glasses daily of purple grape
juice. And unlike aspirin, the flavonoids in purple grape juice remain
effective when adrenaline levels rise. Two 400-milligram capsules of
white willow bark equal one baby aspirin. Eating a lot of dark-green
leafy vegetables such as kale and Brussels sprouts also helps avoid this
condition.
Many
dermatologists advise older patients to stay out of the sun to avoid
skin cancer (see Addendum). The thousands of elderly patients rotting in
nursing homes come to mind. That advice may unintentionally help to make
patients sicker and older beyond their years. Staying indoors will cause
problems a lot worse than skin cancer. Older people's bones will crumble
and break (osteoporosis), they will hate living (depression); articles
in the journals Cancer, Cancer Research and Preventive Medicine suggest
avoiding sunlight could promote development of cancers other than that
of the skin.
In addition
to retinal degeneration, recent research by Reuven Sandyk, MD,
practicing medicine in Connecticut, shows long-term deprivation from
sunlight exposure increases risk of multiple sclero-sis and Parkinson's
disease through depressed secretion of the hormone melatonin by the
brain's pineal gland. All the MS patients he tested had extremely low
melatonin, and their pineal glands were calcified, i.e. hardened.
Reduction in
melatonin secretion, he found, may be associated with zinc deficiency in
ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. "Since melatonin
stimulates serotonin synthesis, and serotonin deficiency has been linked
to aggressive behavior, it is possible that a high prevalence of conduct
disorder and aggressive behavior in ADHD patients could be related to
reduced melatonin and serotonin associated with [but not caused by] zinc
deficiency.")
He applies
extremely weak alternating-current fields to the brain; this stimulates
melatonin secretion, bringing about remarkable subjective and objective
improvement of MS and Parkinson's patients within one to two minutes.
The magnetic field he uses is at 2 to 7 Hertz (vibrations per second), a
physiological frequency--i.e., near the rate used by brain
neurotransmitters.
Melatonin
destroys carcinogenic (cancer-initiating) hydroxyl radicals by
neutralizing their precursor molecules, and so it should help against
Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Melatonin interferes with estrogen
receptor sites on cells; excessive estrogen from the Pill and from HRT
causes breast cells to hyperproliferate (become cancerous), and
melatonin blocks this action. It also slows aging.
The decline
in its levels in everyone's bodies owing to longer daily exposure to
light has been pointed at as one possible factor explaining the
continual spread of cancer in the 20th century.
Some of Dr.
Sandyk's patients with Alzheimer's disease, migraine and pain syndromes
also benefit from exposure to such magnetic fields--suggesting that
sunlight deprivation may contribute to etiology of those distressing
illnesses.
Staying
completely out of the sun may also increase risk of heart attacks and
much more. David Grimes, MD, at Blackburn Royal Infirmary in Blackburn,
UK, notes that heart attacks are commonest in the parts of the
world--such as northwest United Kingdom--that have the least sunshine.
And Asian populations in the British Isles have a particularly high risk
of death from heart attack that cannot be explained on dietary grounds.
Having come from countries in which the sun is so strong that exposure
must be minimized, they have a cultural tendency to avoid the sun.
He traces
causation of many cases of CHD (coronary heart disease) to the microbe
Chlamydia pneumoniae and low immunocompetence from too-low vitamin D
among those avoiding sunshine. Sunlight could determine whether
squalene, the precursor to both vitamin D and cholesterol, converts into
vitamin D (in the presence of enough sunshine) or into excessive
cholesterol (if sunlight is deficient.)
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natural light of the sun. You can buy at www.full-spectrum-lighting.com
Dr. Grimes
links respiratory infections and chronic bronchitis, called "The
English Disease," to poor immunocompetence due to sunlight
deficiency, worsened by cigarette smoking. (In Southern Europe, smoking
rates are much higher, but recurrent respiratory tract infections are
scarce.) Glasgow, Scotland has high rates of osteomalacia and rickets,
which he says are definitely the result of sunlight deficiency. Dr. F.A.
Spencer has noted higher incidence of heart attacks in winter; he has
related that to low levels of vitamin D and to depression from winter
months.
Also,
Crohn's disease (regional enteritis: intestinal irritation) is much more
common in cloudy northwest England than in sunny southern Europe. That
is, if we accept that Crohn's is a microbial disease, as current
research confirms--probably due to Mycobacterium paratuberculosis. Once
again, sunlight in the Mediterranean area could be protective through
immuno-enhancement.
Other risks
of insufficient sunshine.
An Alabama
researcher found that lack of enough sunshine exposure may increase risk
of hypertension in blacks and other dark-skinned people. Those with
greater amounts of pigment in the skin require six times the amount of
ultraviolet B (UVB) light to produce the same amount of vitamin D3 found
in lighter-skinned people. And Dr. Esther John of Northern California
Cancer Center reported that daily exposure to sunshine without sunscreen
appears to lessen risk of breast cancer.
Addendum I.
(1) What
about skin cancers? One was taken off my nose in 1989, and another in
1997; such skin cancers are totally harmless if removed promptly. Recent
research has found at least two ways to minimize even that occasional
inconvenience, and these offer other major benefits.
The
bioflavonoids--flavone compounds that accompany vitamin C in plant
structures --in green tea help prevent cancers, cardiovascular and liver
diseases as well as keratoses. And they explain why green tea is nearly
20 times stronger an antioxidant than vitamin E in the usual
alpha-tocopherol form.
Eat a diet
low in saturated and trans fats, supplemented by fresh, organic,
refrigerated flaxseed and cod liver oils for omega-3 essential fatty
acids (EFAs). One hears warnings of glaucoma (excessive pressure in and
hardening of eyeballs) from sun exposure. That is a risk when eating a
processed-food diet. The EFAs are largely lacking in low-fat Western
diets, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Pyramid.
Among many other health benefits, omega-3 EFAs regulate eye pressure.
Glaucoma can
also result from use of inhaled steroids for asthma. The risk appeared
to be elevated by 44 percent compared to matched patients not using
inhaled steroids. Lea Davies of Georgetown University Medical Center in
Washington, DC, adds that inhaled steroids may cause about one-third of
the 3,000 glaucoma cases developing each year among Americans over 65.
Also, a
published clinical test showed melatonin offers still another benefit:
it lowers eyeball pressure in glaucoma patients, and the insomnia age
group--for whom its use is safe and appropriate--is the same as the
glaucoma age group.
Flaxseed oil
is taken with 400 international units of antioxidant vitamin E, which
should include the other members of the tocopherol complex as well as
the usual natural dalpha part. Germany's late Johanna Budwig, PhD,
developer of this therapy, continued activity into her tenth decade of
life, and was nominated seven times for a Nobel Prize.
Addendum II.
Supplemented
selenium at 50 to 250 micrograms (millionths of a gram) daily protects
the skin against damage from excess sun exposure. (Intakes above 250
mcg, which could be toxic, should be used only for short periods under
the guidance of a knowledgeable practitioner.) Two grams a day of
vitamin C together with 1,000 IU of vitamin E also protects against
sunburn.
Hardly
anyone will experience skin damage from our suggested 20 to 30 minutes'
daily sun exposure. But the selenium supplement is worth taking, on its
other merits, which are extremely important.
(a) A
massive scientific/medical literature supports selenium's efficacy
against cancer and cardiovascular disease. A map of the United States
showing areas of low soil selenium almost perfectly matches maps showing
the areas of highest incidence of both cancer and CVD. The same is true
in New Zealand and Australia. Crib death (SIDS) is also more common in
areas of low soil selenium--such as America's Pacific Northwest and
parts of New Zealand--and so its risk could be lowered by selenium
supplements.
(b) More
than 10 papers published in the past two years relate declining selenium
levels to the progression of HIV ("human immunodeficiency
virus") disease. An article in Journal of AIDS September 30, 1997,
found that patients deficient in Se are almost 20 times more likely to
die of causes related to HIV, than people with enough Se.
Recent
research has discovered that selenium at 200-250 mcg a day can likely
prevent mutation of latent, dormant retroviruses, including HIV, into
virulent forms . This should lower and very likely eliminate risk of
AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) among HIV-positive persons.
Intramuscular injections of vitamin B12, supplements of vitamin E
complex and N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) also strengthen this AIDS defense.
NAC seems to
help replenish stores of reduced glutathione, lower inflammatory
oxidative stress reactions, and help protect against mitochondrial DNA
damage, in turn decreasing replication of the virus. Glutathione is
humans' chief internally generated antioxidant. The DNA in the
mitochondria, the "power houses" of all our cells, has been
described as 2,000 times more susceptible to oxidative damage than
nuclear DNA. Adequate NAC serves further to facilitate detoxification in
persons who have poor phase II glucuronidation.
Will Taylor,
PhD, proposed a mechanism. He is at the Computational Center for
Molecular Structure and Design, Department of Medicinal Chemistry,
University of Georgia. Dr. Taylor sequenced the genetics of innocent,
harmless retroviruses that normally lie dormant and cause no
symptoms--such as herpesvirus Simplex A, Coxsackievirus and HIV.
(The usually
benign character of HIV has been massively documented by Peter Duesberg,
PhD, a leading retrovirologist at University of California/Berkeley. To
label HIV "the AIDS virus" or say that it "[always]
causes AIDS" is wrong. Half of American AIDS patients are
HIV-negative; and of the about 21 million HIV-positive people worldwide,
probably 90 percent are healthy. )
Dr. Taylor
concluded that Coxsackievirus, HIV and certain other retroviruses are
coded for the production of a selenoprotein; and he predicted that the
selenoproteins produced by those viruses act as brakes on the viruses'
reproduction. In effect, with enough Se present, the HIV retrovirus
makes its own "birth-control pill." And so selenium has
suddenly become very popular in HIV-virus clubs.
When there
isn't enough Selenium, the low level may not reflect inadequate dietary
Se intake, Dr. Taylor said--the virus goes wild. Supplemented selenium,
even if the HIV can't be eradicated, can effectively put it to sleep,
preventing its conversion into AIDS.
And coconut
oil, like mother's milk, is rich in lauric acid, which the body converts
to the antiviral fatty acid monolaurin. Dr. Robert Atkins writes,
"This may help in disarming a number of infectious viruses,
including those that cause measles, herpes, Cytomegalovirus, vesicular
stomatitis, and possibly AIDS." Dr. Atkins' endorsement, however,
doesn't extend to coconut milk, which contains too much sugar.
(Excessive
sugar is now recognized as the number one risk factor for heart attacks
in women, #2 for men; excessive animal fat is #2 for women and #1 for
men.)
Addendum
III. Related matters.
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(1) Two
hours of bright light in the evening can cure symptoms such as weight
gain, depression, carbohydrate craving, social withdrawal, fatigue and
irritability.
(2) For many
older patients, inhaled steroids intended to block or reduce
inflammation--formerly claimed not to circulate throughout the
system--promote glaucoma, the leading cause of blindness, and cataracts.
In a comparison the glaucoma risk appeared to be elevated by 44 percent,
compared to matched patients not using inhaled steroids. Lea Davies of
Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC, adds that
inhaled steroids may cause about one-third of the 3,000 glaucoma cases
developing each year among Americans over 65.
Valdemar
Valerian, PhD's Leading Edge research group "noticed that DNA
molecules undergo erratic vibrational patterns in the vicinity of
cathode ray tubes (television or computer monitors), and that a certain
subsonic signal emanating from computer monitors connected to the
Internet make the DNA molecules vibrate in unison, in a form of
entrained pattern.
"We
consulted the eminent Russian researcher Professor D.S. Goldstein. He
said, 'I know that. It is a phenomenon known as electronically induced
sonochemistry. That is how mutations occur, and that is why I stay away
from the Internet.'"
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Postscript
SAD and
Vitamin D
Dietary
sufficiency of vitamin D also needs consideration here. “Seasonal
affective disorder" (SAD) has been treated successfully with
vitamin D. In a recent study covering 30 days of treatment comparing
vitamin D supplementation with two-hour daily use of light boxes,
depression completely resolved in the D group but not in the light box
group." I] Most Americans’ diets are very low in vitamin D; one
good supplementary source is cod liver oil in moderation, either out of
a spoon or as Carlson’s cod liver oil capsules.
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treatment of seasonal affective disorder. J Nutr Health Aging
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