The Benefits of UV Light
Despite what you hear, there are many benefits to UV light, including:
Improves electrocardiogram readings (heart function)
Lowers blood pressure and resting heart rate
Improves cardiac output
Reduces cholesterol, if required
Increases glycogen stores in the liver
Balances blood sugar
Enhances energy, endurance, and muscular strength
Improves the body’s resistance to infections due to an increase of lymphocytes and phagocytic index (the average number of bacteria ingested per leukocyte of the patient’s blood)
Enhances the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood
Increases sex hormones
Improves resistance of the skin to infections
Raises one’s tolerance to stress and reduces depression
Stimulates thyroid hormone production
Boosts metabolism
Protects you from skin cancer
Aids in the production of Vitamin D
There’s also the other end of the visible light spectrum, called infrared, which has its own benefits, including:
Better wound healing
Builds exclusion zone water
Stimulates hair growth
Reduces pain and inflammation
Stimulates mitochondrial health
Promotes insulin sensitivity
Enhances bone regeneration
Promotes neurogenesis
Nature doesn’t make mistakes. The human body has perfect self-regulating mechanisms that protect it from the harshness of certain elements in Nature.
For example, after swimming in a sea or lake for an extended period, you may notice skin swelling, shivering, and circulatory signs. This is the body letting you know it is time to get out of the water.
Get too close to a fire? Who hasn’t touched a hot stove as a child and immediately regretted it. But you learned your lesson, right?
As mentioned above, the list of benefits is literally endless.
One can argue that sunlight is actually the most powerful broad-spectrum medicine on the planet.
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Did You Know THIS about the Sun?
Niels Reiberg Finsen began using sunlight as a treatment for primarily two diseases: smallpox and tuberculosis of the skin (due to lack of Vitamin D). He also discovered that UV radiation benefited those who had been diagnosed with lupus vulgaris, a skin condition. As I mentioned, he ended up winning a Nobel Prize for his work in 1903, a year before he passed away.
Between him and Dr. Auguste Rollier, they found that heliotherapy can actually have an enormous amount of benefits, including:
Helping with acne, psoriasis, burns, eczema, and other skin disorders
Regulating muscular stimulation and relaxation
Improving Seasonal Affective Disorder
Lowering high blood pressure
Decreasing high cholesterol
Lowering high blood sugar in diabetics
Increases white blood cell counts
Improved cardiac output
Improved blood oxygen carrying capacity
Reducing body odor
Boosting the body’s immune system
Boosts metabolism
Reducing bacteria count by as much as 50% from infections
Decontaminating blood transfusions
Improving DNA repair
Irradiating the blood of cancer patients
Improving symptoms of hyperbilirubinemia (neonatal jaundice)
Improved kidney function
By 1933, the two of them recorded over 165 different diseases that could benefit from sunlight exposure.
One can argue that sunlight is actually the most powerful broad-spectrum medicine on the planet.
There’s more about the science behind this in my new book: How to Get World Class Sleep!
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