September 29, 2022 general

Nature’s Original Health Plan (which here I’ll call “OHP”) is very effective. We can forget that our bodies work pretty much the same way they did 10’s of thousands of years ago, but the way that we manage them is markedly different. For example, read my article on the differences in the ancient food supply and today’s. In the OHP, humans got up when the sun rose and went to bed when it got dark. One advantage of that schedule is that it matches the body’s biorhythms. Our body clock is an elaborate internal system involving metabolism, detoxification, repair and so on. While humans were awake in the OHP, most of their time was spent outdoors to hunt or gather food. So, they were not only active, but were also, of necessity, exposed to sunshine. Sunlight provides subtle nourishing wavelengths of energy and stimulates the skin to turn cholesterol into vitamin D.

Vitamin D is so important that virtually every cell has receptors for it. This quote is from our Library article on vitamin D, “…vitamin D is useful for more than just building bones. It protects against issues such as: arthritis, asthma, depression and obesity, dementia, brain shrinkage, brain health, many cancers, prevention of colds and flu, autoimmune diseases, deaths from infectious disease (think covid-19), hardening of the arteries and allergies. It also helps heart health, teeth, fertility and benign breast lumps. [Studies also link low D with autism, diabetes, heart disease, eczema, Parkinson’s, allergies and death from all causes.] Anyone with multiple sclerosis (MS) or other autoimmune disease should study the remarkable recoveries using the Dr. Coimbra protocol. The following stat from a study should get our attention: there was 80% less breast cancer among women whose blood levels of vitamin D were above 60 ng/ml compared to the wimpy 20 ng/ml level some docs still think is okay.”

I recently read in a newspaper column about two studies which supposedly showed that vitamin D was not effective at preventing covid-19. I looked up both studies and, as usual, the dose of vitamin D provided was very low. In one case the participants received only 400 IU which would be low even for a child. The other one used a much higher dose of 3,200 IU but that was way below the 8,000 IU / day recommended in other science.

Please read our library article on vitamin D because it offers important details including the fact that the body needs adequate magnesium in order to properly use vitamin D. Back to the OHP, since modern humans are not in the sun very much and there is scant vitamin D in food, we need to become savvy about supplementing.