Indoor Tanning for Vitamin D
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Content in this PDF: SOURCES OF VITAMIN D – ARE SUNBEDS THE BEST? .................................. 2 IS SUNLIGHT THE BEST MEDICINE? ................................................................. 6 INDOOR TANNING FOR VITAMIN D ................................................................. 8 RED LIGHT THERAPY SUNBEDS FOR SKIN-REJUVENATION...................... 10 REGULAR INDOOR TANNERS ARE HIGH ON VITAMIN D ............................ 14 BENEFITS OF UV-EXPOSURE MUCH MORE THAN ONLY VITAMIN D ....... 15 WHAT WHALES CAN TEACH US ABOUT TANNING ..................................... 17 THE SUNBED BAN IN AUSTRALIA – WHEN SUNSMART GETS STUPID ..... 20 Links to other popular articles on The Tanning Blog: New Rules for Indoor Tanning in Sweden – Time-limit But No Age Ban. Lance Armstrongs Doping Denials And The Skin Cancer Foundation Filing With The FTC Against Promotion Of Tanning In Jersey Shore– What Do They Have In Common? 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About Skinfinity – Tanning Help From The Inside The Healing Sun – Sunlight and Health in the 21st Century by Richard Hobday Skin Cancer Awareness Day And Its Puppet Masters Regular use of sunbeds can reduce the risk of skin cancer. SOURCES OF VITAMIN D – ARE SUNBEDS THE BEST? The seemingly magic benefits of Vitamin D for our health are well known by now . But which are the best and most natural sources of vitamin D? [UPDATE: Click article on page 8 for advice on how If we want to reach the intake recommended by the to use tanning beds in tanning salons as your best vitamin D specialists, natural vitamin D rich food or sources of vitamin D] food fortified with vitamin D is not a realistic way to In principle there are two ways to get vitamin D. You can either MAKE it or TAKE it. We make vitamin D from sunlight. To be more precise, vitamin D is made in our skin when we expose it to UVB rays. This is the way nature intended us humans to get vitamin D. UVB comes with sunlight when the sky is clear and when the sun is high enough above the horizon (>45 degrees) for the short UVB- rays to get through the ozone-layer and other obstacles in the atmosphere. UVB-rays can also be found in the light from the lamps in indoor tanning beds (but not in all indoor tanning beds!). Evolutionary, we used to get 80-90% of our vitamin D from sunlight and 10-20% Sunbeds are the best sources of Vitamin D from what we eat. get there. There is a practical limit to how much cod- We can take vitamin D with food and as food liver oil we can drink or how much mushrooms, fish supplements. Vitamin D comes naturally in some kind and eggs we can eat each day. The oral intake of of foods rich in vitamin D: Shiitake & Button vitamin D always was and still is, a complement to the Mushrooms, Cod Liver Oil, Mackerel, Salmon, main supply of vitamin D from sunlight. Herring, Sardines, Catfish, Tuna fish. Eggs. Note that In the wake of the discoveries of much more serious we talk here about naturally (and preferably organic) benefits of higher vitamin D levels than only to build grown food, not strong bones, more and more industrially farmed. Food vitamin D supplements are can also be fortified with IF WE WANT TO REACH THE filling the shelves in drugstores vitamin D. Even if vitamin INTAKE RECOMMENDED BY THE and on-line shops. The anti- D can be added to almost VITAMIN D SPECIALISTS, NATURAL sunshine propaganda also any kind of food, the most VITAMIN D RICH FOOD OR FOOD helps to turn people towards a common are probably milk FORTIFIED WITH VITAMIN D IS NOT higher oral intake of vitamin D and cereals. A REALISTIC WAY TO GET THERE. instead of making it in the way It is not easy to figure out nature intended it by inviting how much of of the foods UVB-light into their skin. rich in vitamin D you need to eat every day to avoid Today it is no problem to find vitamin D supplements vitamin D deficiency. This is simply because the with as much as 10,000 IU in one single pill. recommendations for vitamin D intake varies from the SOLGAR is a popular and high quality brand which “official” (as stated, for example, by the Institute of comes in strengths from 600 to 10,000 IU. You can Medicine) 600 IU (International Units),to 2,500 – see their range by clicking this link: Solgar vitamin 5,000 IU recommended by leading researchers on D3sources of vitamin d. vitamin D. The problem with taking that much vitamin D orally is 600 IU might be enough to avoid rickets and that we were never meant to get our main supply of osteoporosis, which is still the only benefit of vitamin vitamin D through the digestive system. Therefore no D that is officially recognized by the health- one can really 100% vouch for the long term authorities. However, thousands of recent studies consequences and safety of a high oral intake as the show that higher levels of vitamin D have far more main source of vitamin D. benefits for our health than just for the bones. You can Even many of the leading specialists on vitamin D read more about why the official position is lagging hesitate to mention UV-exposure as the recommended behind science if you read this article: source of vitamin D. This is mainly because they still http://www.thetanningguru.com/vitamin-d/sun-fear- are not sure if the adverse effects of UV-exposure, as group-stalls-decision-about-vitamin-d-in-who- we are being bombarded with through mass-media, are millions-die-while-waiting/ real or not. This has lead to an interesting development safest sources of Vitamin D. They are surfing on the in the discussion about vitamin D levels. Instead of anti-tanning wave invented by the manufacturers of focusing on how high blood-levels of 25 (OH)D we sun-protection lotions and sun-scare lobbyists on their really need to fight certain cancers and illnesses, the payroll. debate often concentrates on how much vitamin D3 is The fact is that nature never intended pills to be safe to take. And since nobody really knows the among the sources of Vitamin D. The human body has clinical long-term consequences from a permanent evolved thanks to sunlight and the rays from the sun high oral intake of vitamin D3, this becomes a “Catch were and still are the most natural way for everyone to 22″ moment in the vitamin D debate. get good levels of this life-essential vitamin/hormone. When we make vitamin D by exposing the skin to If sunlight could be fetched and sold by the bottle, UVB rays, either from the natural sun or from the sunshine would have had much stronger commercial lamps in a tanning bed, the risk of getting too much support. Because UV-rays, and especially UVB-rays is vitamin D is not any issue. Our bodies have an the only real efficient source of Vitamin D. automatic system that takes care of any excess of Actually UV-light has been “caught and bottled” by vitamin D made by UV- the inventor of sun lamps, Dr. exposure. Wolff. Unfortunately he has The fact that vitamin D3 “A UVB PHOTON (PACKET not yet got the Nobel-prize he only (relatively) recently OF ENERGY) IS A PHOTON deserves for this invention. has been discovered as one WHETHER IT IS PRODUCED BY Instead tanning beds are being of the potent substances THE SUN OR BY A TANNING attacked every day for being made by sunshine in our life-threatening devices and skin, ought to make us BED WITH FLUORESCENT laws are created to keep us think about what else that LAMPS.” away from them. is good for our health Dr. Michael Holick But the truth is that tanning might come from a tanning beds can be just as good, or session? even better, sources of Vitamin D than sunlight from In the this video: the natural sun. As Dr. Michael Holick writes in his http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doLWpUBGY- latest book “The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step w&list=PLrzPyslvGSsbGL6GI8_XXr7EOYfI0TxNV Strategy To Cure Our Most Common Health &index=2, Dr Joseph Mercola explains which the best Problems“: sources of vitamin D are. His view corresponds very “A UVB photon (packet of energy) is a photon much to mine, even if I believe he is a little bit too whether it is produced by the sun or by a tanning bed much focused on that the tanning beds used for with fluorescent lamps.” vitamin D tanning must be “safe”. And with safe he means that they should have electronic ballasts instead This means that the two best sources of Vitamin D are of magnetic.