- Hey Llan,
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- I was wondering whether you could go over again with
me the info. you were relating about skin cancer, sun-screen, etc. I was
chatting with my friend Michelle from work, who is young (35) and last
year underwent surgery for skin cancer on her forehead which resulted in
losing one complete eyebrow. She'd be interested in any point of view about
melanomas, etc.
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- Thanks,
- judit
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- Dear Judit,
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- Your inquiry about skin cancer and UV light propels
me this morning to type in 6 pages of hand written stuff for adding to
the book that I accumulated during my month on St John. So I don't have
to repeat stuff from the book, taking your book to hand consider:
- Insert to middle of page 16:
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- We have been indoctorinated with an entire bogus
construct concerning sunlight. Dr William Campbell Douglas says "Let's
put it right up front so there's no confusion:
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- 1) The sun does not cause melanoma or any other form
of fatal cancer. Dermatologists warn that it does, but they have no scientific
basis for the assertion. The real fact is, it is more likely that a lack
of adequate sunlight is a strong factor to the development of melanoma.
The sun is your friend, but like any good thing, using a little self-control
makes it even better.
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- 2) Sunscreen is detrimental to good health and should
be avoided. There has been a dramatic rise in melanoma coupled with the
use of sun blocking oils.
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- 3) Sunglasses are also bad for your health unless you
wear the full spectrum variety. The sun does not cause cataracts or other
visual problems. The infra-red rays from incandescent light bulbs are probably
the main cause of cataracts. Use full spectrum fluorescent lights in your
home or office."
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- For a wavelength to 'burn' it means over-exposure
to the tolerances of the body for that specific wave-length. Our body can
stand great quantities of and variability of exposure to radiation in the
ranges of the visible spectrum. At both edges of this visible wavelength
band is where intolerances, particularly in the epidermal layer, reveal
themselves. Wavelengths of ultraviolet not normally visible 'burn' the
skin when it's too much, at the same time the invisible wavelengths of
ultra-violet are an essential nutrient in the body's production of Vitamin
D.
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- Melanomas tend to appear on parts of the body not
especially exposed to sunlight. They tend to be thicker and more advanced
when found on hidden areas of the body. They can be obscured by hair and
by a lack of pigmentation. My mother's upper-thigh melanoma in her 70's
she said was as large as half a grapefruit.
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- Almost all the contributory damage to the skin that
might induce non-melanoma skin cancer from the sun occurs in childhood
and early adulthood - my doctor said the many basal cell carcinoma skin
cancers I burned off from the second epidermal layer of my face with something
called Effudex after he had frozen off several over years take 26 years
to develop. People over 70 do not need to have concern for anything other
than getting enough UVB sun to achieve and maintain healthy Vitamin D levels,
which is harder to do the older you get, and are much more likely to die
from Vitamin D deficiency-related hip fracture due to osteoporosis than
from skin cancer. It is almost impossible to get enough Vitamin D from
diet.
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- Until the mid 1990's it was believed that the kidneys
make the body's entire supply of activated Vitamin D from the 25-Vitamnin
D created by the liver out of the Vitamin D made in the skin after sun
exposure and, to a lesser extent, from foods that supply Vitamin D. The
supply from the kidneys that was thought to contribute to bone health is
actually small and doesn't change however much 25-Vitamin D there is in
the bloodstream. It is now understood that a variety of cells have this
ability to activate Vitamin D, including the breast, prostate, colon, brain,
skin and probably most other tissues and cells, where it is converted and
used on the spot without increasing the activated Vitamin D in the blood
stream, making difficulties for scientists to detect the connections between
sun exposure and Vitamin D.
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- We now know that sun exposure has a role in preventing
auto-immune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and
type 1 diabetes, osteoporosis and that it promotes bone health. Discovering
that cells throughout the body can activate Vitamin D is a major breakthrough
in Vitamin D research. Also discovered is that not only the brain makes
'feel good' endorphins, when exposed to ultraviolet radiation the skin
also makes beta endorphins.
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- All of us over age one need to get at least 1000
IU of Vitamin D every day. Most of us need only a few minutes a day sun
exposure during the summer months to maintain hea;lthy Vitamin D levels
throughout the year! About half of the amount of UVB exposure it would
take to begin to turn your particular skin pink equals approximately 1000
IU of Vitamin D. Vitamin D is stored in your body fat and released in winter
when you need it. 1000 IU or 25,000 nanograms can also be found in a pound
of cooked eel or 40 eggs, 10 cups of fortified milk (with the danger of
too much calcium), 10 oz salmon or mackerel, 7 1/2 lbs of fortified dried
cereal. How about anchovies?
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- Neither Vitamin D rich foods nor supplements will
cause your body to produce the feel-good substances such as beta-endorphins
and serotonin, which create the feeling of well being you feel after being
in the sun (or using a proper UVB tanning facility). Unlike Vitamin D supplements,
which can cause toxicity especially if overdone with children, sun exposure
cannot cause toxicity.
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- Pg 16: Serotonin production is directly related to the
duration of exposure to sunlight (Lancet 2002).
- The book continues with aspects of cytoluminescent therapy,
to which is added mid pg 17:
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- Since first evolved to treat polio virus in the early
1930's, ultraviolet blood irradiation raises the resistance of the host
and is therefore able to control many disease processes of apparently unrelated
etiology. UBI has never caused any adverse side effects or complications.
Researchers in Russia (current listings of world medical literature contain
over 110 articles, all from soviet literature) have used this process to
treat HIV with impressive results.
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- My good friend Michael, folklore collector and singer,
spent much of his energy the last two years of anguished debilitation similar
to chronic fatigue syndrome researching and seeking medical help for what
was ultimately concluded to be lyme disease or tick fever. At end resort
he sought a clinic established by his brother in the midwest for the specific
purpose of reintroducing the Knott Technique of ultraviolet blood irradiation
using machines developed by E K Knott and used with excellent results in
the 1930s 40s and 50s for the treatment of a wide variety of conditions.
A half dozen treatments totally restored Michael to himself as he and we
know him, after everything else proposed by doctors up and down the East
Coast had failed to produce any change.
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- And from my book: Attachment of Chapter 3
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- Llan
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