Sunlight--Just Do It!

Like many/most people, I’ve had a few things that sent me to a dermatologist. Which means that each time I received the standard lecture: The sun is evil—it wants to kill you! As many readers will have experienced, this isn’t much of an exaggeration. Do you have to reach outside to bring in the mail? Sunscreen your hand! Wear that floppy hat if you poke your head out to check whether it’s raining!

Over the years I have studiously ignored this “advice”. I know I must have put on sunscreen once or twice in my life, but only to prevent a true burn. Sunlight is good for you. So I was pleased to stumble across this:

The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox

The Shocking Truth About Skin Cancer: What You’re Not Being Told About the Sun

Is everything we’ve been told one big fat lie? The answer seems to be a resounding yes.

While the public is constantly told to avoid the sun to prevent skin cancer, what they’re not telling you is that sunlight is arguably the most important nutrient for the human body.

And get this: avoiding sunlight can double one’s risk of dying prematurely, and it also increases the risk of all other cancers.

Sunlight also:

• is critical for mental health

• reduces the risk of breast cancer

• is vital for cardiovascular health

• increases one’s longevity

• triggers the production of Vitamin D

• is vital for proper immune system function

So, why all the fearmongering? The answer seems to be “follow the money.”

A Midwestern Doctor writes:

“A remarkably sophisticated public relations campaign was launched to transform society for the benefit of [the dermatology] industry.”

The demonization of the sun has “allowed the dermatologists to cast themselves as heroes and to stir up as much anxiety as possible about the sun—especially as a psychological investment they had to make constantly putting sunscreen on would make them more likely to go to their dermatologist.”

Moreover, the skin cancer fear campaign has created “a massive sales funnel by being allowed to do a massive number of routine full body skin exams (on otherwise healthy individuals) and hence have a huge pool of potential cancers to biopsy or excise (remove).”

Lastly, the war against sunlight has allowed them “to piggyback onto the fear the medical industry has marketed around cancer to justify charging a lot of money to do something questionable to prevent cancer and having every patient go along with it the second they hear the dreaded ‘c’ word.”

So, there you have it. Now, you understand why they want you to fear the sun.

Read the entirety of this masterful article by @MidwesternDoc in the comment below.

ARTICLE: The Shocking Truth About Skin Cancer: What You’re Not Being Told About the Sun

The Shocking Truth About Skin Cancer: What You’re Not Being Told About the Sun

Dermatology Is Fighting A FAKE War Against The Sun!

Paul Hookem @PaulHook_em

Sunlight causing skin cancer is a bigger scam than margarine.

Does all this sound weirdly familiar? Of course it does. It should, because if we were fish all these medical hoaxes would be the water we swim in. As it is, hoaxes of all sorts are the air we breath. Hoaxes are in every breath you take. They be watching you. The key is breaking free because hoaxes are, to a significant extent, mental prisons of our own making.