The solace of solar-powered medicine Anybody that's read me, known me, or heard me speak over the last 30 years knows that I diverge sharply from the medical establishment when it comes to the subject of sunlight and cancer. And for good reason: What they say on the matter is pure hogwash. But even though I've blown the whistle on major flaws in epidemiological studies associating sun exposure and skin cancer... Even though I've trumpeted the obvious correlations in large populations of people that illustrate exactly the OPPOSITE of what the mainstream's claiming - that sunlight causes cancer... Although I've shown time and again the simple link between sunshine exposure and levels of healthy, lifesaving vitamin D... And despite the fact that I've squawked until I'm blue in the face about the millions in profit sunscreen makers rake in from selling their useless goop to a brainwashed, solar-phobic public... Nobody seems to listen. And they call me a blind optimist, but every time the mainstream media even alludes to something that's even remotely sun-friendly, I get my hopes up that it's finally time for the sun itself to have its day in the sun. Yet every time, whatever scrap of good sun-shiny news the mainstream's willing to report seems to come and go like a blip on a radar screen. Maybe this time, it won't. According to recent articles on the Associated Press, Reuters, and other sources, a pair of recent studies points strongly to a correlation I've been maintaining for years - that sunlight actually combats cancer. Not just any cancer, either: Melanoma, the very cancer that exposure to sunlight is supposed to CAUSE. According to a 5-year New Mexico University study of 528 melanoma victims, increased sunlight exposure led to increased survivability of the disease. This baffled the study's authors so much that they launched a second study of 3,700 people to try and replicate (more like refute) the finding. But unless they cook the books or structure the study in an epidemiologically flawed way, they'll be disappointed. The sun is powerful healing medicine, whether the naysayers want to believe it or not. And it's on a roll. Keep reading... **************************************************** More than skin deep Not only does the sun give powerful protection against skin cancer, it also apparently protects against another kind of cancer - one that's especially vicious: Non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL), a cancer of the blood. This was the finding of some recent Australian research, originally published in the International Journal of Cancer and reported by Reuters and other big-name sources. It marks the second time in as many weeks that sunlight has won a round in the fight to malign it. Like the skin cancer study I talked about above, this research was originally intended to prove that sunlight CAUSES cancer. But exactly the opposite was detected: The more sunlight the study's 704 participants had been subjected to in life, the less their risk of the deadly NHL cancer - by as much as 35%! The study's flabbergasted researchers theorized that an increase in the production of Vitamin D - spurred by sunlight, of course - may account for the cancer-protective benefit. Heck, they didn't need a study to tell them that. All they had to do was clean the sunscreen out of their ears and LISTEN! Eschewing the goop and dishing the scoop, William Campbell Douglass II, MD P.S. I will be expanding on this subject in an upcoming issue of Real Health Breakthroughs, so check your snail mailboxes.
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