- 5 Amazing Properties of Sunlight You've Never Heard About
- UVB can increase Vitamin D directly in cell
- Topical, Inhaled, etc processed by CYP11A1 creates form of Vitamin D which is not detected by blood test
- Hypothesis: Sun provides more than vitamin D – June 2012
- Perhaps more benefits from UV than just vitamin D - 2006 Lucas
- The sun provides more health benefit than vitamin D – Dr. Lucas podcast – May 2015
- Sun is better than UV, which is better than Vitamin D by Vitamin D Life
- Vitamin D and light conference – June 2019
- Exposing some blood to Ultraviolet light has treated various health problems, then antibiotics came along – April 2016
- UV produces more than vitamin D – Aug 2011
- Ultraviolet Light in Human Health, Diseases and Environment - book 2017
- Many wavelengths of light provide health benefits, not just UV – March 2016
- The sun appears to generate Co-Q10 in our bodies when we eat our greens – Greger April 2016
- Nature deficiency leads to disease (less sun, less Vitamin d) – Feb 2019
- The risks and benefits of sun exposure – Holick Oct 2016
- Health benefits of non-burning exposure to UV light – Jan 2017
- Light and Vitamins - D, A, C, B1, B2, B3, B9, B12, E – April 2018
- Perhaps you get more health from the sun at 8 AM than noon
- Heliotherapy treated children – 1926 many felt that early moning sunlight was better
- Nitric oxide (from Sun, UVA, Vitamin D) reduces cardiovascular problems
- Is this better than Vitamin D - sunlight (Wunsch, Mercola) - March 2015
- UVB produced 8X more vitamin D as solar UV – July 2012 - Sun also has UVA
- Many other anti-cancer photoproducts generated on the skin in addition to vitamin D – Jan 2014
- UV – adverse and beneficial effects – review Nov 2014
- UV has treated psoriasis for over a century, guidelines finally agreed upon – Aug 2019
- UVB improvements to Vitamin D receptor appear to improve melanoma survival – Oct 2017
- More UV and vitamin D, less infectious disease – Jan 2017
Dr. Grant +
- Low UVB (thus low Vitamin D) is linked to many diseases – Grant Jan 2016
- Less sun means more disease -Grant, Holick, Cannell, et al Feb 2015
- Embrace the Sun – benefits of the sun throughout the day and year – book June 2018
Animals
- UV improves immune system without increasing vitamin D levels in male mice – Sept 2012
- UV (perhaps Nitric Oxide) better than vitamin D at preventing obesity in rats on a high-fat diet – Nov 2014
- UV better than vitamin D in reducing metabolic syndrome in mice – Thesis Aug 2013
- Less intestinal cancer in mice if add vitamin D, but even less with ultraviolet light – June 2014
- UV for is for the birds
- UVB better than Vit D supplements for pet reptiles file - abstract
Sun/UV improves health
- Parkinson’s patients 50X less likely to get even a little sun– meta-analysis Jan 2019
- Regular sun exposure benefits health – Dec 2016
- UVB phototherapy (which increases Vitamin D and VDR) decreased risk of many heart and stroke problems – July 2020
Other Wavelengths, not just UV
UV and COVID-19
- Coronavirus Disintegration using Ultraviolet Light Therapy - 2020
- Evidence of Protective Role of Ultraviolet-B (UVB) Radiation in Reducing COVID-19 Deaths
The articles in both of the categories MS and UV are:
- Multiple Sclerosis treated equally by UVB and weekly 50,000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT July 2023
- Mutiple Sclerosis half as likely in children spending 30 to 60 minutes per day in the sun – Dec 2021
- Sun reduces risk of Multiple Sclerosis via both Vitamin D and another way – Dec 2019
- UV helped EAE mice (MS) designed to not respond to Vitamin D – Oct 2019
- Multiple Sclerosis 2X more likely if low winter UV – June 2018
- Multiple Sclerosis half as likely if get plenty of sunshine (not a news item) – March 2018
- Clinically Isolated Syndrome progresses to Multiple Sclerosis, unless UVB treatments – RCT Dec 2017
- Vitamin D and Sun conference – Germany June 2017
- Multiple Sclerosis suppressed by an Ultraviolet wavelength not associated with Vitamin D (mice) – Nov 2016
- Multiple Sclerosis helped by UV – possibly via cytokines, etc. – Oct 2015
- Hypothesis – Multiple Sclerosis risk increases with low UV, viral infections, and antibiotics in childhood – March 2015
- How UVB reduces autoimmune diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis – April 2014
- UV decreases Multiple Sclerosis via cis-urocanic acid (and via vitamin D) – June 2013
- MS prevention by UV is 2X better than prevention by vitamin D levels – Jan 2012
- There is more in UV than vitamin D which suppresses MS in mice – April 2010
- UV produces more than vitamin D – Aug 2011
- Lack of UV 20X more associated with MS than any other variable – Dec 2010
- Hypothesis - more in sunshine than vitamin D to reduce MS – Feb 2010
- MS UV and Vitamin D – 2009
- Lack of UV increased offspring MS - April 2010
- Mouse MS: UVB but not Vitamin D reduced incidence - April 2010