U need UV!

It does more than Vitamin D.

The ultraviolet (UV) part of sunshine has a bad reputation in mainstream medicine. If you have ever experienced severe sunburn or heat exhaustion, you may fear it at a visceral level! At the same time, we need UV for our wellbeing.

Different forms of UV light penetrate to different depths of the skin.

Did you know skin cells respond to sunlight¹ and produce:

• neuropeptides

• biogenic amines

• serotonin

• melatonin

• nitric oxide

• opioids

• cannabinoids

• catecholamines

• acetylcholine

• steroids

• secosteroids

• adipokines and cytokenes

And that sunligh on the skin helps regulate all these sub-categories of our neuroendocrine system?

• melatoninergic system

• secosteroidogenic system

• steroidogenic system

• cholinergic system

• catecholaminergic system

• opioid system

• cannabinoid system

• serotoninergic system

• histaminergic system

• CRH/POMC system

• HPA axis

• HPT axis

If you are like I was when I started down this research track, you might not yet even recognize all these names! Let alone know that sunlight on the skin could be responsible for so muc…