 The current scenario created by the fear-mongering mainstream media is a perfect environment to get sick in. Inside all day, not exercising, eating crappy preserved food, getting blasted with Wi-Fi devices 24-7, you aren't getting sunlight, vitamin D, which is crucial for immune function and the prevention of illnesses. You aren't producing antioxidants through exercise, and the diet has inadequate nutrients for repairing tissue. And you're under cellular stress from radio wave bombardment. The focus today is vitamin D. Don't stay locked up inside. Go out, get some sun, as much sun as possible on as much of your body as possible. But it's not that simple. There are only certain periods of the year and certain times of day where you can get vitamin D. Before we cover that, why is vitamin D so important right now? Specifically, there are many studies demonstrating the effectiveness of vitamin D against influenza and other illnesses. This leads me to believe that the flu might actually be a vitamin deficiency, something I've mentioned in the past. Not only that, our current recommendations are based on a mistake. A statistical error in the estimation of the recommended dietary allowance for vitamin D was recently discovered. In a correct analysis of the data used by the Institute of Medicine, it was found that 8,895 IU per day was needed for 97.5% of individuals to achieve values greater than 15 nanomoles per liter. This could lead to a recommendation of 1,000 IU for children less than one year on enriched formula, and 1,500 IU for breastfed children older than six months, 3,000 IU for children greater than one year of age, and around 8,000 IU for young adults and thereafter. Actions are urgently needed to protect the global population from vitamin D deficiency. So actions are urgently needed, yet none of us have heard about this right. This is the type of information the mainstream news keeps from you. It prevents you from understanding how important of a lifestyle component vitamin D is. It is literally a hormone. Vitamin D and sun exposure is just as important as diet and exercise on its own. With all the crucial functions that vitamin D activates, how can we miss it so badly? People genuinely believe that if you get 15 minutes of sun exposure on your hands and face in the middle of winter, that you're good to go. That is not the case. If you think about our past, we would have been outside in the sun all day every day. This equates to dozens of hours of full body tanning every single week, in the spring, summer, and fall months. A far cry from what we're doing today. What's even crazier is lubing yourself up with sunscreen like a grease ball before going out in the sun. Most studies about sunscreen and skin cancer show no positive results. And this study even shows a negative outcome. More people get skin cancer when using sunscreen. And our ancestral example here is that the only way to procure food in nature is to be out in the sun through hunting or farming. If you're eating food, technically you would have had to be in the sun. And there is certainly a reason that sun worship can be found throughout all of recorded history in many different forms. Architects used to build structures based around letting the sun in. The primary concern is always Frank. Won't I get skin cancer if I'm in the sun all day? Cancer is caused by inflammatory lifestyle factors. Yes, the sun is required to get skin cancer. It is a catalyst. Just like driving a car is required for a car accident. But does that mean you're going to stop driving a car if there's a chance you can get in an accident? No, so why should you stop tanning in the sun? Because it's not necessary? Well, that's what most people believe, but that's a far cry from the truth. As with everything, you have positives and negatives. What positive aspects in your lifestyle prevent skin cancer? And what negative aspects cause skin cancer? So tanning, being in the sun, technically damages your skin. It causes oxidative stress. A trade-off for getting that very important vitamin D. Your body repairs that skin with the positives in your diet. Using certain vitamins, proteins, especially vitamins A, B vitamins, vitamin C. If you don't have enough nutrients, your body can heal the skin properly. And most people aren't getting enough of those nutrients or they have too many inflammatory lifestyle factors. And those negatives are the inflammatory foods in your diet. Particularly omega-6 fatty acids from vegetable seed oils and feedlot meats, as well as agrochemicals. If the lipids in your cells, all of the cells in your body, have fat as a component. And if that's composed of too much omega-6 fat, which is unnatural due to our modern diet, they will be more prone to oxidative stress as omega-6 oxidizes very quickly. If your body is stressed from all of these chemicals, pollutants, negative things in the food and water supply, how are you going to perform the metabolic processes required to heal your skin when you're essentially dying on the inside? There are many anecdotes of people doing much better in the sun on just a simple carnivore diet. Just by removing those inflammatory factors, not even optimizing nutrients. Oh Frank, isn't this easy for you to say when you're Italian and you don't burn in your sun? Guys, regardless of your skin color, I don't care if you're the pale-ish ginger and you're translucent. That only changes how you have to initially adjust to the sun. There's a drastic difference also in the required amount of tanning between a Northern European versus a Middle Eastern person. Of course you want maximum skin exposure, ideally naked at most a small bathing suit or your undergarments. So you can't just go outside when the sun is out though. Generally speaking, the only months of the year where the UV index is adequate enough to tan is late April through early September. Late May to early August being peak UV, basically the best times to tan. Even today, although the UV index was okay, honestly, it's a beautiful day, but it's not really worth being outside. You're not getting a lot of vitamin D for the time you're spending outside compared to other times of the year. So even though today is this beautiful April day, this is an important month for people with the paler skin complexions. Since I am Italian, I can go out in the middle of July and I might burn in a day, but my skin will heal very quickly and I'll get that deep, dark olive skin. If you are on the paler end of the spectrum, again, very important to be outside in April in the earlier months of the year. So your skin adjusts using the lower intensity UV rays. So what actually dictates when we can be outside? It's the amount of UVB in the UVB to UVA ratio of the sun. From about 12 PM to 2 PM is when the UV index peaks on a daily basis. That means that the percentage of UVB rays coming from the sun are the highest. UVB equals vitamin D and that peak is around 1 PM. So the maximum sun exposure for the day would be about 10 AM to 4 PM and that's when the outside, anything more than that is not really beneficial. I would even argue that there's diminishing returns if you tan more than like two hours per day. Honestly, if you're busy, if you just want to really optimize things, you don't have to be outside for more than two hours. And speaking of wind, can you rub vitamin D off? Can you wash it off? Yes, you can. So if you are in the sun for a couple hours and you go inside, don't start wiping your face, don't take a shower, let it sit. Maybe don't even take a shower the whole day, that would be ideal. Let your skin absorb the vitamin D. One of the worst things you can do is lay in the sun for four or five hours and then jump in a chlorinated pool. Obviously, your body's still going to get some vitamin D, but if you spent all that time in the sun, why would you risk washing some of it off your skin? And I'm assuming it probably takes a couple hours to absorb after you're out in the sun. Oh my God, this fucking wind, can you guys even hear me? Holy shit, this is ridiculous. It's literally, it's so windy, it's blowing my camera over. I could like wait for it to not be windy and record, but I don't want to be out here all day recording. As I've already gotten my son today, I've been out from like 12 p.m. to 1.30 p.m., so I'm not spending more than two hours outside in April. UVA index just isn't high enough. So overall, the concept is pretty simple. Tan from May to August for a couple hours around 1 p.m. The only issue is weather. If it's raining, if it's cloudy, you're generally going to get frustrated. It's kind of funny when you start doing this. You look outside to see how many clouds there are, then when you are tanning and the clouds block the sun, you feel like you're wasting your time. Because this is, it's like a game. How much sun exposure can you get at the peak UV? One thing I didn't mention was parts of the world in relation to your ancestry. Obviously, if you're someone from the UK and you're living in Australia, you're not going to need as much sun exposure as an aboriginal. You do have to keep in mind where you're located. I'm an Italian and I'm in New York, so I probably have to get more sun exposure in New York than I would in Italy. A bunch of different things to talk about, but that overall point remains the same. Late spring, late summer, get out in the sun around noon. Now that being said, what if you can't get some sun? Most of us have nine to five jobs, and we can't exactly drop everything to burn our faces off in the sun. You can supplement vitamin D3. I do have one available on organsupplements.com, although dosing is difficult to gauge and it's metabolized differently than the sun. You definitely don't feel as good from a supplement as you do laying outside. I usually do go to tanning beds a few times a month in the off season to keep a healthy glow, and those tanning beds really do make me feel good, although that is arguably detrimental because of the electric and magnetic field exposures from the tanning bed. The length of time in a tanning session really does depend on the skin color and the time of year as we've gone over. I didn't mention that most people should start tanning in early April, so your skin can start to darken. And then by July, you'll have the tan skin so that you won't burn in the hotter sun, the higher UV indexes. Again, not a good idea to go outside in the blistering August sun after not being out all year, and a lot of people do that when they go on vacation, and that's why they end up burnt, and that's why they think they need to use all the sunscreen and that they don't tan naturally. So if you're on a standard American diet or really poor diet, do you have to adjust for a few months and fix your diet for a few months before you can get some sun? No. All you really need to do is just start consuming quality animal foods and optimize your omega-3 to omega-6 ratio, and you'll be good to go, you'll be fine. The next step is determining if your D3 levels are adequate. Maybe I should ask my neighbors. Generally, one season of tanning plus a supplement will fix a deficiency in most people. About 5% of my clients have had adequate vitamin D levels, just by going out in the sun, going on vacation, and supplementing. I would say about 5,000 IU vitamin D is a good starting maintenance dose. You can go a lot higher, and I mean like 10, 20, 30, 40, 50,000 IU per day, but there is a problem with nutrient synergy. As vitamin D requires magnesium, vitamin K2, and vitamin A to be metabolized, it's antagonistic to those nutrients, and it will deplete them. It can also over-activate calcium. So if you have a lot of calcium stores in your body, from a past fortified diet, you might run into hyper-calcemia issues initially when using too much vitamin D. Most people do have enough vitamin A, but they aren't getting enough magnesium or K2. That being said, I personally take 200 milligrams of magnesium glycanate. I think the magnesium is something you might only need to use initially in larger amounts, and then you can kind of get it from food. I do take 2 milligrams of vitamin K2, Mk4 per day, because most of our guts are not in a good state to produce it, and it's very, very difficult to get from food. And even though I'm out in the sun all the time, I still supplement vitamin D. I found that vitamin D accelerates the tanning process, so when I was going to tanning salons and I wasn't taking vitamin D, it would take me a few weeks to build up a base tan, but when I supplement vitamin D, something about supplementing it, it just activates the skin receptors more, and I tan in a matter of days. Can we get vitamin D from food? Now, if you're eating 1 to 2 pounds of fatty fish per day, that would be a few thousand IU, and there really is no significant food source for vitamin D besides those fatty fish like mackerel and herring, and most people aren't going to do that because those foods are, frankly, pretty gross. So we kind of rule out the food sources of vitamin D. The purpose of the diet in regards to vitamin D is to get the nutrients that allow you to metabolize it from the sun, the cholesterol, the magnesium, a bunch of other cofactors your body needs to utilize vitamin D. Don't look at the diet for all your nutrients. You have to get vitamin D from the sun. Adequate blood levels of vitamin D can be gauged by a blood test. That's the only real way to know for sure where you're at. That being said, our ancestors weren't testing their blood for vitamin D. The only problem is that if you're supplementing vitamin D, your serum levels will be artificially high. So you want to take like a month or two break from the supplement before getting your blood levels tested. For nanograms per milliliter, which is the measurement used in the United States, you want around 60 NG slash ML. For nanomoles per liter, which is used in most other countries, you want around 150 nanomoles per liter, NMOL slash L. And that measurement is 2.5 times the nanogram's measurement. So that's a pretty easy conversion. If you're in the United States, multiply it by 2.5. That will be the number you see in other countries. In regards to cyclical nature of vitamin D, our stores would be depleted over the winter. And then when the spring and summer months come back around, that's where we get our nutrients. That's why humans are meant to get pregnant in the fall, where we just ate all these quality animal foods over the summer. We got plenty of sunlight and the nutrition is high. You get pregnant because the fertility of the sperm and the egg is very high. And then the pregnancy goes through the colder months of the year. And then when the baby is born, the sun's out again. In June, July, the sun's out. And if you look at children born in those summer months, they're taller, they're more intelligent, they're just better off in general because of the vitamin D specifically. That's going to be it for today. This was kind of like a brief overview of some vitamin D3 information I've gone over in the past. And maybe we'll do some really in-depth vitamin D stuff in the future. But the point is, get outside, get a lot of sun exposure, feel good, get healthy. It is a major lifestyle factor. 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