U need UV!

It does more than Vitamin D.

Sep 5, 2022

∙ Paid

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…

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