Make The Most of Sunshine in Albuquerque, New Mexico For Sale

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Are you confused by all the conflicting advice about sunshine? Some people will tell you to protect your skin with creams. Other people say you need Vitamin D and the best way to get it is by exposing your skin to the sun. Some say you stay out of the sun when it is at its highest whilst some say that is actually the best time to be out in the sunshine.
Add in all the talk about UVA and UVB rays and the latest information about skin cancer and the whole subject is a minefield.
The trouble is that virtually all of the comments above are technically correct – but they only tell you a small part of the full story. The sun cream manufacturers will tell you to always use cream – that will give you protection but you will also block a lot of other health benefits. The skin cancer specialists will probably be ultra cautious and advise you to stay out of the sun altogether – again, you would miss out on all the goodness that sunshine can give you.
What are the Benefits of Sunshine?
There are two main benefits of sunshine for humans: -
A gentle tan can actually make you feel good. It lifts your spirits and improves your general well-being.
More importantly is that sunshine helps your body create Vitamin D. Sunshine promotes the synthesis of Vitamin D in the skin. This encourages the absorption of calcium and phosphorous, which are so vital to many aspects of our health.
Vitamin D is an essential vitamin and some of the benefits are: -
Boosts the immune system and helps fight common colds
Can reduce the risk of developing Multiple sclerosis
Helps the brain function in later life
Linked to maintaining a healthy body weight
Can reduce the risk of rheumatoid arthritis in women
Can even help protect against low levels of radiation
Recently linked to lowering the risk of developing many cancers
Plus many more
As you can see, Vitamin D is extremely important.
If you live in the tropics all your body needs is 2 separate 15 minute sessions a week of unprotected sunshine and you can generate all the Vitamin D you need. Unfortunately, very few of us live in the tropics and can all be guilty of an “all or nothing” approach. We spend all winter covered up and then blitz the sunshine on the beach for 1 or maybe 2 weeks during the year. That isn’t very clever either.
Different Forms of Sunshine
The first thing to realise is that sunshine is actually made up of many different wavelengths – some we can see and some we can’t. The two main groups we shall discuss here are known as UVA and UVB rays. In general terms, the UVA rays colour your skin (and burn) whilst the UVB rays produce the Vitamin D.
If only nature arranged things so that we could get a little bit of UVA and UVB whenever the sun shone. This is where the problems begin and, as a result, most of the confusion. Unfortunately, these two sets of rays have different properties: -
UVA will be reduced by sun cream
UVA will transmit through normal glass
UVA will be reduced (but not eliminated) by cloud and pollution
UVA will give you a tan but can also burn and lead to skin cancer
UVB will also be reduced by sun cream
UVB will not transmit through glass
UVB will not transmit through cloud or pollution
UVB will reflect off the Ozone layer (and not reach you) if the sun is at an angle of less than 50 degrees
UVB synthesises Vitamin D and is good for you
Do you see some of the conflicts here?
Smother yourself in sun cream of a high factor and you won’t tan or receive Vitamin D.
Sit in the sun but behind glass (conservatory or window) and you will burn but not receive Vitamin D.
Expose your skin when the sun is lower than 50 degrees (morning, evening or all day at certain times of the year) and you will burn but not receive Vitamin D.
Expose your skin when the sun is at its highest and you will get all the Vitamin D you need but risk burning and damaging your skin.
The Best Way to Receive Your Sunshine
It is important for you to realise that everybody is slightly different and the following guidelines are just that – guidelines. At the start of summer you need to gently acclimatise your skin to sunshine. Once you have a golden glow your skin can tolerate more exposure but you should always avoid burning wherever possible.
The ideal situation is to sunbathe for 10 to 15 minutes at a time whilst the sun is above 50 degrees – this depends on where you are and the season but it is often only a couple of hours either side of noon. Do this 2 or 3 times a day with a gap of at least 30 minutes between sessions until you have acclimatised. Then you can consider slightly longer sessions and extending the time of day you sunbathe.
The important thing to remember is to make sure that you receive the beneficial UVB rays at the same time as you receive the tanning UVA rays. The health benefits of the UVB will often assist in protecting the skin from damage.
Take care if you are in the sun when it is lower than 50 degrees, or a cloudy day or you are behind glass. In these circumstances you will receive all the burning, damaging UVA rays but none of the healthy UVB rays. It is no secret that a high percentage of long distance drivers develop skin cancer on the arm next to the window.
If you use a sun-bed or tanning table then make sure it uses low pressure UV lamps that have a reasonable percentage of UVB. Avoid any solarium or tanning equipment that only uses UVA.
Stay Dirty
This next piece of advice isn’t quite so simple to achieve. The UVB rays help produce Vitamin D3, which is an oil soluble steroid hormone. It is formed on the skin when the UVB ray comes into contact with a cholesterol derivative in your skin and converts it to Vitamin D3. The bad news is that the newly formed Vitamin D3 can take a long time to actually be absorbed through the skin into the bloodstream where it is needed. This can take up to 48 hours!
Washing with soap will remove any Vitamin D from the surface of your skin. A simple rinse with clean water is not a problem. A full scrub with powerful soap or shower gel is a problem. For hygiene reasons you should still use soap under the arms and groin area but try to avoid soaping the larger areas that have been exposed to the sun – especially on a daily basis.
What if you live in the North (or extreme South) or have very delicate skin?
A city like Chicago is known for its harsh winters but extremely warm summers. But if the sun is out during winter then it is just not possible to receive UVB rays and produce Vitamin D. In fact UVB rays don’t appear until March 25th and they have completely gone by middle of September. Even at noon, the sun is too low for the UVB rays to penetrate the Ozone layer for 6 months of the year.
Our body needs a regular supply of Vitamin D yet historically, it has been extremely difficult to supplement. Many products might contain Vitamin D but not in a form that can be absorbed and used. The bio-availability of Vitamin D in supplements has been a major problem – but all that is set to change. Ethos have developed natural marine phytoplankton that has wide ranging health benefits. Yes, it even includes Vitamin D (technically Vitamin D3) in a form that is readily absorbed by the body and starts working within minutes of being taken.
Ethos Marine Phytoplankton – marinephytoplankton.net
Marine phytoplankton provides a rare and complete food that gives the body virtually all of the raw materials that it needs, in one single source, to produce healthy new cells and neuro-chemicals for the brain, such as dopamine and serotonum. Because it works at the deepest level of the cell, it seems to work for a wide variety of diseases and imbalances including many chronic illnesses. What makes phytoplankton so unique is the exceptionally high success rate that has been experienced in overcoming a variety of health conditions and chronic diseases, thus enabling the body to heal itself much faster. We believe this is because it contains all of the raw materials necessary, in one source, in near perfect proportions. Like a chemical reaction, various components have to exist at the same time, otherwise the reaction will not happen. A typical example is the neurochemical serotonum, which requires eight different vitamins and minerals for the body to produce. If just one is missing, the body cannot produce it.
Ethos marine phytoplankton contains over 65 nutritional properties, including all of the amino acids, essential fats, vitamins, key minerals and trace elements, rare anti-oxidants, phospholipids, electrolytes, nucleic acids, enzymes and co-enzymes. It is a living food that carries an electrical frequency that works with the intelligence of the body. It is believed that it’s the combination and proportion of elements and nutrients that make phytoplankton so unique and so effective at enabling cellular regeneration and therefore natural healing. All of its elements and electrolytes are almost exactly tailor-made for the human body.
High amongst these components is Vitamin D. This makes Ethos Marine Phytoplankton one of only a handful of products worldwide that contains Vitamin D in a readily useable form.
For further information and details on how to buy Ethos Marine Phytoplankton visit – marinephytoplankton.net