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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Avoiding the Sun is Just as Dangerous as Cigarettes?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to talk about the dangers of avoiding sun exposure. There has been an association between vitamin D insufficiency and autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and at least 17 different cancers.


Vitamin D is intimately involved in over 2,000 of our genes and vital for proper immune function. It’s virtually impossible to get enough vitamin D from your diet. Only 5% to 10% of vitamin D comes from diet, and that’s only if you eat plenty of fatty fish, organ meats, and egg yolks. Around 90% to 95% percent of your vitamin D comes from the sun.


Every year, there are 5,125 deaths from sun exposure and 1,684,677 deaths from lack of sun. For every death from sun exposure, there are 329 deaths from lack of sun.


The current American Dermatology Association recommendation is to stay out of the sun and use sunblock. Yet, in the early 1900s, the sun was used to treat illnesses like tuberculosis and asthma.


In 1935, 1 out of 1500 people developed melanoma. By 2014, 1 in 50 people had developed melanoma, despite the fact that people are spending significantly less time outside.


This shows that the sun protects you from melanoma. In fact, 75% of all melanomas are located in areas not typically exposed to the sun.


Fifty-four percent of the sun's rays are infrared light. Infrared light protects against cancer, stimulates melatonin, and also generates ATP. Vitamin D and melatonin protect the mitochondria. Both are stimulated by exposure to the sun.


Aim to get a moderate amount of sun exposure to avoid burning and support your health.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

What I'm about to tell you, you are probably going to reject it and click off.

0:04.8

Before you do that, just hear me out.

0:07.8

Avoiding the sun may be just as dangerous as smoking cigarettes. Now I know you probably think I'm

0:16.2

exaggerating, but just hear me out. There's an association between at least

0:21.5

17 different cancers and a vitamin D insufficiency and autoimmune

0:28.8

diseases and cardiovascular disease. Vitamin D is intimately involved in over 2,000 different genes.

0:38.7

Our immune system absolutely cannot work without vitamin D.

0:42.6

And check this out, it's virtually impossible

0:45.2

to get your required vitamin D from your diet.

0:48.1

You're gonna get between 5 to 10 percent.

0:51.0

And that's if you're consuming fatty fish, organ meats, egg yolks, which a lot of people don't even do that.

0:56.5

90 to 95 percent of Vitamin D comes from the sun.

1:01.8

Now check out these statistics. There are over 5,000 deaths per year worldwide

1:08.0

from too much sun. But look at how many people die from a lack of sun.

1:14.2

1,684,677 people every single year.

1:19.6

So there's 329 times more people that are negatively affected by a lack of sun versus the actual

1:28.2

exposure to sun.

1:29.8

This is based on a fascinating book called Embrace the Sun by Mark Sorensen, who looked at and

1:36.4

evaluated 1300 different studies on the topic.

1:40.2

So they concluded that for every one person who dies from Sun Exposure,

1:44.3

there's 329 people who die of a lack of Sun Exposure.

1:49.2

I mean, just think about the mainstream recommendation for Sun by the American Dermatology Association.

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