An outspoken British journalist with a reputation for fierce and honest opinions, Melanie Phillips offers cut-through commentary on a number of significant cultural and geopolitical issues.
She and John discuss the coronation of Charles III, the cultural problems gripping the UK, and the relationship between Israel and the West. Melanie considers what the reign of King Charles will mean for Britain socially and politically. Although she acknowledges that Charles has been more politically opinionated than his mother, Melanie points out that there is good reason to be optimistic about his reign on the basis of his character.
Melanie gives a particularly scathing critique of law enforcement and state education in the UK.
Melanie’s column currently appears in The Times, but over the years she has been published by the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Mail. She also writes for the Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News Syndicate. Her best-selling book Londonistan, about the British establishment’s capitulation to Islamist aggression, was published in 2006 by Encounter, New York. She followed this in 2010 with The World Turned Upside Down: the Global Battle over God, Truth and Power, and in 2018 with her first novel, The Legacy.
This is the third time she and John have sat down to talk.
With disturbing news of child sex predators—groomers and Balenciaga—being exposed lately, parents are hugging their children a little tighter before tucking them in each night.
Few know better what dangers are lurking out there than child crimes investigator Terra Avilla, 36, of the District Attorney’s Office in Susanville, California.
The investigator and mom of three is also a TikTok influencer, going by the handle @thegirlcop, who shares her advice to parents on social media.
In her videos which went viral, Avilla shares three tips for parents to help keep their kids safe from sex predators, which she elaborated on for The Epoch Times.
But what makes this lady cop an expert in her field, one worthy of giving advice?
Being the only female officer when she joined the Susanville Police Department in 2010, Avilla was often underestimated by her peers, yet her coworkers soon realized her forte.
Victims were often more comfortable speaking to a female officer so she soon was assigned to working child sex cases.
“After a while, because I was handling so many of them, I grew to be an expert very quickly,” she told the Epoch Times.
“I became an expert in speaking with children,” she said. “I learned how to develop a rapport with them and also discovered how important it is to have their trust.”
With this experience investigating crimes against children under her belt, she felt compelled to inform parents how to keep their kids safe.
She shared three important tips, which she follows raising her own children, which are as follows:
Number One–No Sleepovers
“I would not let them attend sleepovers,” she said. “This always draws a huge backlash, but after 11 p.m., there is nothing productive and good happening there.
“While I may trust the parents of my children’s friends, I have no control over who else may ‘pop’ in while my kid is there. The friends’ of their siblings, friends’ of the parents, neighbors, etc.”
John-Henry is joined by attorney Todd Callender, who explains how the COVID pandemic has turned us into lab rats subject to a nefarious gene therapy experiment.
In the climate of a global pandemic, COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out under emergency use authorization after a much shorter than normal testing period. Millions of people rolled up their sleeves because they were told they were doing their part to end the pandemic. But for some—it didn’t go as expected.
The Unseen Crisis is a feature-length documentary that provides an intimate, uncensored look into the lives of those who live with the debilitating after-effects of the COVID-19 vaccines. It examines the issue of COVID-19 vaccine injury claims in a fresh, honest, and comprehensive manner with expert interviews, whistleblowers’ statements, and government health statistics.
May 9, 2023 ‘It is essential for us to work with financial institutions that are focused on free-market principles and not beholden to social goals that override their fiduciary duties.’
OKLAHOMA CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Oklahoma State Treasurer’s Office has announced that it will bar 13 major financial institutions, including BlackRock, J.P. Morgan, and Bank of America, from doing business with the state over their boycotting of energy companies in the name of so-called “environmental, social, and corporate governance” (ESG) standards.
Last year, Oklahoma enacted a law requiring it to divest from companies that boycott the fossil fuel industry, and the treasurer’s office subsequently sent inquiries across the corporate world as to which companies had such practices.
On May 3, the office announced that almost 160 financial institutions responded, and based on their answers 13 of them are going on the Restricted Financial Companies List: BlackRock, Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Bank of America, State Street Corp., GCM Grosvenor, Lexington Partners, FirstMark Fund Partners, StepStone VC Global Partners, WCM Investment Management, William Blair, Actis, and Climate First Bank. Others may be added to or removed from the list every 90 days.
“The energy sector is crucial to Oklahoma’s economy, providing jobs for our residents and helping drive economic growth,” said Oklahoma State Treasurer Todd Russ. “It is essential for us to work with financial institutions that are focused on free-market principles and not beholden to social goals that override their fiduciary duties.”
“The energy sector is crucial to Oklahoma’s economy, providing jobs for our residents and helping drive economic growth,” Russ added. “It is essential for us to work with financial institutions that are focused on free-market principles and not beholden to social goals that override their fiduciary duties.”
The move is the latest in a national trend of pushback against the proliferation of ESG scoring systems in the financial sector, which incentivizes investing in companies not on the basis of their performance for customers and shareholders but rather on their fealty to so-called “social justice” principles such as diversity and environmentalism. ESG is one of the reasons why so many companies in recent years have attempted to influence public policy on issues such as homosexuality, transgenderism, race relations, and abortion.
Nineteen states – Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming – have formed a coalition to collectively agree to resist ESG standards in a variety of ways, such as banning their use in state pension-fund investment decisions, banning the use of “social credit scores” in banking and lending practices, and banning ideological discrimination against customers by financial institutions.
The FDA agency changed its definitions after people correctly noted that COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent infection.
Apr 25 2023
Vaccines don’t have to prevent infection or transmission to be cleared in the United States, the country’s top regulatory agency said in a new document.
“It is important to note that FDA’s authorization and licensure standards for vaccines do not require demonstration of the prevention of infection or transmission,” Dr. Peter Marks, a top official at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said in the document.
Marks was writing as he rejected nearly all recommendations from a group of experts that advised the FDA to update the labels for the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
Vaccines are traditionally known as drugs that prevent an illness. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for years said a vaccine is a product that “produces immunity” while vaccination is an injection of an infectious organism “in order to prevent the disease.” The agency changed its definitions after people correctly noted that COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent infection.
Studies continue to show that face masks provided no protection against covid-19. Now, a new peer-reviewed study out of Germany finds that short-term face mask use causes carbon dioxide poisoning, leading to testicular dysfunction in young men, increased risk of stillbirth for pregnant women, cognitive decline in children, as well as impaired memory, anxiety, and other serious health problems. Masks force a person to inhale unsafe levels of CO2, synthetic microfibers, carcinogenic compounds, volatile organic compounds, and microorganisms that have adapted to the moist environment inside the mask. The researchers warn that face masks suffocate people in their own exhaled waste, increasing CO2 levels in their blood while driving up blood pressure and inflammatory markers.
The study, Possible toxicity of chronic carbon dioxide exposure associated with face mask use, particularly in pregnant women, children, and adolescentswas published in the peer reviewed journal, Helion.
Face masks spike CO2 blood levels, destroying childhood brain development, depleting men’s sperm
Fresh air typically contains just .04% CO2. When a person puts on a mask, they are exposed to low level carbon dioxide poisoning in the range of 1.4–3.2%. In the study, CO2 concentrations as low as .3% were associated with significant brain damage, impaired memory, and increased anxiety in children. The study found that just five minutes of mask wearing can expose an individual to dangerous CO2 levels – laying the groundwork for serious health issues and developmental disorders in children.
In one study, 0.3% CO2 exposure on adolescent brain neurons “can cause destruction in the gyrus dentatus and the prefrontal cortex with decreased IGF-1 levels resulting in less activity, increased anxiety and impaired learning and memory.”
The concentration of CO2 in the blood has an important influence on intra- and extracellular pH. When CO2 passes quickly through the cell membranes, it goes on to form carbonic acid with H2O, causing the release of H + ions, leading to acidosis and the die-off of neurons.
When male mice are exposed to 2.5% CO2 for four hours, their testicular cells and sperm are destroyed. For humans, this exposure is equal to .5% CO2 — a common exposure during mask mandates. In the study, four hours of low-level CO2 exposure causes spermatid and Sertoli cells in testes to self-destruct, causing streaking & vacuolization of the tubular components and consequentially no maturation of the spermatids.
CO2 poisoning of pregnant women causes birth defects, higher risk of stillbirth
Carbon dioxide exposure can cause oxidative stress and the formation of lipid hydroperoxides that cause DNA fragmentation and subsequent mitochondrial damage and cell death. Pregnant rats exposed to 3% CO2 were more likely to suffer stillbirths and have offspring with birth defects. This is equal to 0.8 percent CO2 exposure for humans – a common exposure for pregnant women who worked under mask mandates.
Before widespread mask use, the stillbirth rate in humans was 7 per 1000 births. During the masking pandemonium, stillbirths increased to 21 per 1,000 births. A prominent UK hospital reported a fourfold increase in stillbirths during the covid-19 scandal, and carbon dioxide poisoning was a major contributing factor. The damage was also observed in Australia, where people were forced to wear masks for years. These increase in stillbirths was not observed in Sweden, where there were no mask mandates.
“Circumstantial evidence exists that popular mask use may be related to current observations of a significant rise of 28 percent to 33 percent in stillbirths worldwide,” the German researchers concluded.
Forceful and coercive face mask policies continue to violate the sovereign rights and health of the individual, weakening their immune system and setting up their oxygen-deprived cells for oxidative damage, inflammation, and severe disease. Pregnant women and their fetuses were directly harmed by policies of forced CO2 poisoning. Forced masking of children caused negative psychological effects and additional physiological damage to their brains, their immune system, and their development.
Full article: theepochtimes.com/fauci-says-americans-shouldnt-blame-him-for-covid-19-lockdowns-school-closures_5221991.html
Dr. Anthony Fauci has insisted that he is not to blame for millions of Americans having to go into lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, but acknowledged that something “went wrong” with the government’s response to the pandemic.
Fauci made the comments in an interview with The New York Times Magazine on April 25 when questioned about the federal government’s “heavy-handed” approach to various health policies implemented throughout the pandemic, and whether were guided by public health concerns or economic, political, and social realities.
“I certainly think things could have been done differently—and better—on both sides,” Fauci said. “I mean, anybody who thinks that what we or anybody else did was perfect is not looking at reality. Nothing was done perfectly. But what I can say is that, at least to my perception—the emphasis strictly on the science and public health—that is what public-health people should do. I’m not an economist.”
Fauci, who headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases until late 2022, went on to state that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is “not an economic organization” and the surgeon general is “not an economist” and so officials looked at ways to respond to the pandemic from a “purely public-health standpoint.”
“It was for other people to make broader assessments—people whose positions include but aren’t exclusively about public health. Those people have to make the decisions about the balance between the potential negative consequences of something versus the benefits of something,” Fauci continued.
‘It Wasn’t Fauci’
According to official CDC statistics, more than 1.1 million Americans have died from COVID-19-related conditions.
Throughout the pandemic, the Biden administration has consistently touted vaccinations as helping to lower transmission rates while providing better protection against the virus and rolled out various vaccine mandates.
The mandates proved to be polarizing, to say the least, and many Americans who opted not to get vaccinated ultimately lost their jobs.
The CDC later acknowledged that strong protection was granted by natural immunity after COVID-19 infection after the health agency conducted a study analyzing COVID-19 cases in California and New York in 2021 from May 30 through November of the same year.
That study found that individuals who had not been vaccinated for COVID-19 but were infected previously with the illness were much less likely to test positive for the virus again and also less likely to need hospitalization compared to vaccinated people who had not been infected with COVID-19.
May 2, 2023 Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Sales Crash as Company Reports Drop in Revenue
Read Full Article :theepochtimes.com/pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-sales-crash-as-company-reports-drop-in-revenue_5235657.html
Below is only excerps…
Pfizer and other COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers have been dealing with decreased demand amid plunging effectiveness and lower levels of COVID-19 in various countries. The company said in its 2022 report that it could not “accurately predict the impact of COVID-19 on our business” and that various factors could affect sales, including an inability to report clinical trial results for its updated COVID-19 vaccine.
Pfizer expects 65 million COVID-19 doses to be administered in 2023, down from 92 million in 2022. But the company projects an increase to 67 million in 2024. And if a planned combination COVID-19/influenza shot works out, officials project the administration of 77 million doses in 2025 and 98 million doses in 2026.
Pfizer officials, however, predict that sales will pick up if U.S. regulators follow through on plans to update the vaccine strains to target the variants in circulation.
Current plans involve picking the strain or strains to target in the spring or summer and rolling out updated shots each year during the fall, similar to how influenza vaccines are distributed in some countries.
A 1 hr documentary about what would happen if the United States power grid were to ever shut down, what could cause it, and what we can do to prevent it.
Grid failure is a real and imminent threat, a devastatingly deadly occurrence leading to life-threatening shortages of heat, food, and water. If protective measures are not taken, we will experience catastrophic failures leaving citizens in states of starvation, death, destruction, and darkness for months. Reports released from Texas’ 3-day “snowmageddon” indicate a minimum death toll of 246, with some estimates climbing as high as 702. An outage of 1-2 years would lead to 10,000,000+ deaths. One thing is evident: the clock is ticking, and if nothing changes, the power may go out for good…
Federal judge orders Pennsylvania school district to allow ‘After School Satan Club’
Tue May 2, 2023 Citing the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled that Saucon Valley School District could not prevent The Satanic Temple from sponsoring club meetings on school grounds.
Tue May 2, 2023 We are living in a world that accepts the unacceptable. One recent example is the 2023 Satancon held in Boston on April 28-30. This satanic gathering, hosted by The Satanic Temple, was billed as the “the largest in history.” Some 800 satanists attended.
The event was also promoted as a “weekend of blasphemy.” It included a workshop on how to turn an abortion into a satanic ritual, a satanic “marketplace,” “unbaptism ceremonies,” and a satanic “wedding chapel.”
This open mockery of the Church and Her sacraments is part of the satanic effort to mainstream their agenda into society and the public square.
A reaction against Satan and all his works
The much-publicized event was held at the Marriot Hotel in the downtown of one of the nation’s largest cities. The complicit media streamed images of pentagrams, satanic statues, black costumes and cries of “Hail Satan.” The satanists did everything possible to make this event impossible to ignore.
Will technology stop at transgenderism? No. Western populations are being conditioned – ‘groomed’ – to more easily accept transhumanism via the booming transgender industry.
Mon May 8, 2023
Individuals, including children, caught up in the current trans craze who have had their bodies medically and surgically mutilated and their personalities altered via social “affirmation” are nothing more than stepping stones to launch an even more macabre form of existence: transhumanism.
Once considered to be nothing more than a cultish fringe ideology belonging more to the world of science fiction than reality, “transhumanism” is now being driven into reality by governments, multinational corporations, global banks, international law firms, and of course, Silicon Valley.
What is transhumanism? It’s a movement that seeks to create humans with augmented capabilities by merging the human person with technology.
While some of the initial forays into transhuman science have laudable goals of helping people with neurological disorders such as paralysis, dementia, and Alzheimer disease, these efforts will be used to pave the way to a form of immortal “boundless” existence by fusing the human conscience with computers, creating a hybrid species of individuals who will exist in cyberspace.
The ultimate goal is to create an enhanced species that transcends humanity. In other words, the aim is to create an upgraded, “posthuman” society.
“Transhumanists want to apply technology to overcome limits imposed by our biological and genetic heritage,” explained Max More, a philosopher who deals with the cultural implications of emerging technologies.
“Transhumanists regard human nature not as an end in itself, not as perfect, and not as having any claim on our allegiance,” continued More. “Rather, it is just one point along an evolutionary pathway, and we can learn to reshape our own nature in ways we deem desirable and valuable.”
“By thoughtfully, carefully, and yet boldly applying technology to ourselves,” said More, “we can become something no longer accurately described as human – we can become posthuman.”
You are being groomed: Transgenderism is the ‘on ramp’ to transhumanism
Outspoken investigative journalist Jennifer Bilek has pointed out that the political-corporate-NGO (Non-Governmental Organizations)-legal-academic infrastructure driving “body dissociation” is “mammoth.”
Canadians with large tax bills will be forced to pay electronically starting in 2024
Wed May 3, 2023 Cheques or cash payments of more than $10,000 will not be accepted next year, raising concerns about the government one day adopting problematic central bank digital currencies.
Extended masking can result in mild carbon dioxide poisoning and in turn increase risks of stillbirths, testicular dysfunction, and cognitive decline in children, according to German researchers’ analysis of 43 studies.
Their findings, published in the medical journal Heliyon, suggest a “possible negative impact risk by imposing extended mask mandates especially for vulnerable subgroups. Circumstantial evidence exists that extended mask use may be related to current observations of stillbirths and to reduced verbal motor and overall cognitive performance in children born during the pandemic.”
Wearing a mask for more than five minutes raises the amount of carbon dioxide in the air one inhales from approximately 0.04% to between 1.41% and 3.2%, they write. While this is “usually within the short-term exposure limits, long-term exceedances and consequences must be considered due to experimental data,” and the data “indicate that mandatory daily long-term use of masks (surgical, N95), especially for children, adolescents, younger people and pregnant women can lead to negative effects.”
“So one has to ask: May there be a link between an increased mask-related (pandemic) global carbon dioxide re-breathing since 2020 and the current reported disturbing 28% rise in stillbirths worldwide?” they ask, noting that lockdown measures in Australia and Italy were associated with rising stillbirths but Sweden, which did not mandate masks, did not see such an increase.
Journalist Whitney Webb has worked to uncover some of the most dangerous stories of our lifetime, and she joins Glenn to reveal just how eye-opening it’s been. Her new two-volume book, “One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein,” examines Epstein’s elaborate network of corruption and power, from Bill Clinton to Ghislaine Maxwell and many more. Her research into transhumanism has given her a terrifying perspective on the World Economic Forum and tech elites, including Elon Musk. And she tells Glenn the dark truth about Biden’s push for electric vehicles that she noticed while living in Chile.
Bankers’ mate Jim Chalmers trashes Curtin and Chifley’s greatest legacy
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has committed to dumping the policy for which “old Labor” legends John Curtin and Ben Chifley fought hardest— democratic control of the central bank and the banking system.
Chalmers, who calls Australian Banking Association CEO Anna Bligh his “confidante”, yesterday said he would legislate to implement all recommendations of the RBA Review, including the first one which says “The government should remove the power of the Treasurer to overrule the RBA’s decisions.”
This should be deeply shocking to any true Labor Party person who knows their party’s history, and to any Australian who knows their nation’s history.
Curtin and Chifley
The power that Chalmers has committed to remove is the principle for which the Australian Labor Party fought a pitched battle against the banks in the 1930s.
The fight started in the depths of the Great Depression, when Australian households were suffering under more than 30 per cent unemployment.
In 1930, Labor Prime Minister James Scullin’s Treasurer Ted Theodore turned to the government-owned Commonwealth Bank, which a little over a decade earlier during the first world war had shown, spectacularly, its power to massively boost Australia’s economy with investments in local infrastructure and Australia’s industries.
Theodore directed the Commonwealth Bank to issue £20 million in new notes: one third to lend to farmers; two-thirds to spend on public works to create jobs for the unemployed.
Australia’s currency supply had contracted significantly in the previous few years, which is why the depression was so deep; Theodore’s proposed “fiduciary” note issue would have started to reverse that.
As Smith’s Weekly reported on 4 October 1930, the Governor of the Commonwealth Bank, Sir Robert Gibson, replied to the directive:
“Mr Prime Minister and members of the Cabinet, you ask me to inflate the currency by issuing another 20 millions of notes. My answer is that I bloody well won’t.”
Gibson’s defiance was shocking—how could the manager of the bank refuse to follow the orders of the government which owned the bank?
It raised the question: Who was really in charge of the financial system?
Have we been lied to when it comes to getting sun exposure.
The need for Vitamin D for good health is becoming more and more recognized and yet our society has been trained to fear the sun, use carcinogenic sun blocks and cover up
20 minutes a day of morning sunshine is the ideal.
Over the past few decades, people have become increasingly aware of the risks associated with excessive exposure to UV radiation from sunlight, including skin cancer, photoaging, and cataracts.
However, appropriate sun exposure provides benefits that are crucial for human health. Growing evidence suggests that sun exposure not only helps prevent and treat a variety of diseases, but insufficient exposure to sunlight may also increase the risk of cancer.
Sun Exposure Increases Skin Cancer Risk, but May Prevent Other Types of Cancer
Many people associate sun exposure with skin cancer, but research has found that insufficient exposure to UV radiation may also be linked to other types of cancer.
Before delving into this topic, we first need to understand the relationship between sunlight, UV radiation, and vitamin D.
Energy from the sun reaches the Earth in the form of visible light, infrared radiation, and ultraviolet radiation. Ultraviolet radiation is further divided into three types: UVA, UVB, and UVC, of which only UVA and UVB reach the Earth’s surface. UVC is absorbed by the atmosphere.
UVB in sunlight is absorbed by cholesterol in the skin and converted to vitamin D3. Vitamin D3 is then metabolized in the liver to 25-hydroxyvitamin D (also known as calcidiol) and in the kidneys to its biologically active form (calcitriol), according to a 2004 article in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
According to that article, the only way to determine a person’s vitamin D level is to measure the concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in their blood. This 25-hydroxyvitamin D has a half-life of approximately two weeks and is the major circulating form of vitamin D.
In 2022, a study published in the journal Nutrients found that, based on ecological studies of cancer related to solar radiation, sun exposure may decrease the incidence and mortality risks of approximately 23 types of cancer. According to an article in Environmental Health Perspectives, compared to those who live in regions with longer sunlight exposure, people living at high latitudes with less sunlight exposure have an increased mortality risk from Hodgkin’s lymphoma, as well as colon, breast, ovarian, prostate, pancreatic, and other types of cancer.
According to the Nutrients study, meta-analyses of multiple observational studies have shown that there is a significant negative correlation between the concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in the blood and the incidence of 12 different types of cancer, indicating that higher levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D are associated with a lower incidence of cancer.
American researchers conducted a meta-analysis of two randomized clinical trials and one prospective cohort and found that among 5,038 women, the group with the highest 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration (≥60 ng/ml) had an 82 percent lower incidence of breast cancer compared to the group with the lowest concentration (<20 ng/ml). The same group had an 80 percent lower risk of developing breast cancer compared to those with the lowest concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, after adjusting for age, BMI, smoking status, and calcium supplement intake.
Another meta-analysis found that breast cancer patients with the highest concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D had a death rate of approximately half that of those with the lowest concentration. In a clinical trial, over 2,300 women aged 55 and above residing in Nebraska consumed 2,000 IU of vitamin D3 (two to four times the daily suggestion) and 1,500 milligrams of calcium daily. The results showed that in the subsequent two to four years, individuals who achieved a blood concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D at 55 ng/ml had a 35 percent lower risk of developing cancer compared to those with a concentration of 30 ng/ml.
A meta-analysis of five studies found that individuals with a serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration less than or equal to 12 ng/ml had a 50 percent higher risk of colorectal cancer compared to those with a concentration of 33 ng/ml or greater.
How Does Sun Exposure Prevent Cancer?
“We believe that vitamin D plays multiple roles in helping to reduce the risk of many deadly cancers,” said Michael F. Holick, a professor of pharmacology, physiology, and biophysics at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, in an interview with The Epoch Times.
Studies such as the one that appeared in Nutrients have demonstrated that the active form of vitamin D3 has a wide range of anti-cancer effects, including inhibiting cancer cell growth, inducing cancer cell maturation and apoptosis, reducing angiogenesis, and decreasing cancer cell metastasis.
“The active form of vitamin D can prevent cells from becoming cancer cells, and if they do, it can also hinder their ability to receive nutrients and ultimately lead to their death by shutting down angiogenesis,” Holick explained.
Active vitamin D3 is a hormone that can regulate the immune system by acting on various immune cells, according to a 2022 study review in Nutrients.
Additionally, low levels of vitamin D are often associated with low-grade inflammation, as reflected by elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, which is a significant risk factor for cancer. Meta-analyses such as the 2022 Nutrients review have shown that the level of C-reactive protein is associated with several types of cancer. Cell experiments have demonstrated that active vitamin D3 can inhibit the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, which may help reduce chronic inflammation.
Small Amounts of UV Radiation Are Beneficial in Fighting Cancer
In addition to the vitamin D generated by UV radiation, the radiation itself can also be beneficial. According to a review in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, the protective effects of less-intense solar UV radiation on the human body outweigh the radiation’s potential mutagenic effect.
Animal studies have shown that vitamin D supplementation and exposure to ultraviolet radiation can lead to a reduction in the area of colon tumors in mice.
Sunlight Exposure Regulates Circadian Rhythm and Generates Other Active Substances
Regular exposure to sunlight can regulate circadian rhythm and influence the secretion of various hormones in the human body.
Some studies suggest that melatonin can inhibit tumor growth, and daytime light exposure enhances the inhibitory effect of nighttime melatonin on the growth of prostate, liver, and breast cancer. The precursor of melatonin, serotonin, is affected by exposure to daylight. It is usually produced during the day and converted to melatonin only in darkness. Exposure to sunlight in the morning promotes the secretion of serotonin, which in turn accelerates the production of melatonin at night, according to the Environmental Health Perspectives article.
The increased risk of cancer among night shift workers may be due to their disrupted circadian rhythm, which affects the production of melatonin.
Exposure to sunlight not only produces vitamin D3 in the skin, but also generates other photoproducts of previtamin D3, which have additional unique biologic activities. “It generates a whole host of other things,” Holick explained.
A systematic review in Dermatoendocrinology specifically indicated that inadequate sun exposure carries many other risks, including increased all-cause mortality, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and Alzheimer’s disease. Additionally, it can lead to multiple sclerosis, Type 1 diabetes, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, macular degeneration, statin intolerance, and myopia.
How to Get Sun Exposure Safely and Efficiently
The medical community has always advocated for moderate sun exposure. “Such suggestion is not unreasonable,” said Holick. “The solution (getting vitamin D through sun exposure) is simple.”
According to the Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology review, under normal circumstances, about 90 percent of the body’s essential vitamin D is obtained through sun exposure. However, people are now spending much less time in the sun, especially after the pandemic.
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the standard for 25-hydroxyvitamin D in plasma should not be lower than 20 ng/ml. However, the reality is that 32 percent of Americans have been found to have vitamin D insufficiency, according to the Dermatoendocrinology review. If the Endocrine Society’s standard for vitamin D sufficiency (30 ng/ml) is used, the proportion of people with vitamin D deficiency would further increase.
It is estimated that for every 100 IU of vitamin D ingested, the blood level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D increases by only 1 ng/ml (2.5 nmol/l). For most adults, periodic and brief sun exposure can provide sufficient vitamin D, which is more effective than taking 1,000 IU of vitamin D3 daily. Moreover, getting vitamin D through sun exposure prevents the potential toxicity of excessive vitamin D supplementation.
Holick stated that the 25-hydroxyvitamin D level should reach 75 nmol/l (30 ng/ml), and the ideal range is between 40 to 60 ng/ml, “just like the Maasai herders.” The Maasai are traditionally nomadic people who live in East Africa.
Generally, it is recommended to expose the arms, legs, and other body parts to the sun for 10 to 15 minutes a few times a week. However, this is not an absolute rule, as factors such as season, latitude, weather, time of day, skin pigmentation, clothing, age, sunscreen use, and glass can all influence the production of vitamin D3 in the skin.
For example, during winter, sunlight enters the atmosphere at a more oblique angle, and more UVB photons are absorbed by the ozone layer. In areas north of 37° latitude in the Northern Hemisphere from November to February, the decrease in the number of UVB photons reaching the Earth’s surface can range from 80 to 100 percent, depending on the latitude.
In the morning or evening, the angle of sunlight is so oblique that even in summer, the rate at which vitamin D3 is produced in the skin of individuals living in these regions is very slow.
People with lighter skin may only need a short amount of time in the sun to get enough vitamin D, while those with darker skin may require more time to achieve the same effect. For most white people, according to the Environmental Health Perspectives article, sunbathing in swimwear for half an hour in the summer sun can initiate the release of 50,000 IU (1.25 mg) of vitamin D into the circulatory system within the following 24 hours; the same sun exposure yields 20,000 to 30,000 IU vitamin D for tanned-skin individuals and 8,000 to 10,000 IU vitamin D in dark-skinned individuals.
According to research from the University of Geneva in Switzerland, exposing 22 percent of the skin for 10 to 15 minutes to the sun during spring and summer can synthesize 1,000 IU of vitamin D. However, it is more challenging to obtain sufficient vitamin D from sun exposure alone during autumn and winter because people typically only expose 8 to 10 percent of their skin, which may require 6.5 hours of sun exposure to obtain the same amount of vitamin D.
A study of 2,360 American adults published in Frontiers in 2022 showed that in real life, exposure to sunlight for around 35 minutes between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. every day, without deliberately sunbathing at noon, can result in ideal serum vitamin D levels (>50 nmol/l).
Holick introduced a software called D Minder that he helped develop. By using this software, people can instantly find out how much sun exposure is needed in their area to obtain sufficient vitamin D.
Holick also recommended protecting the face, which is the most susceptible to sunburn, while sunbathing; whereas exposing the arms, legs, abdomen, and back to the sun for a reasonable and shorter duration without using sunblock can generate a significant amount of vitamin D.
You need to do your own deep dive research. Doctors are trained in pharmacology – they are not deliberately misleading you – they themselves have been mislead.
You must ASK for the necessary blood tests ( and sometimes it is a step by step process) and be prepared to pay for them
Cardiologists will prescribe hypertension and cholesterol lowering medication after they do their test as default action.
LDL is not in itself bad cholesterol. sd LDL is what you have to be concerned about. Getting blood tests to identify the SD LDL you have is difficult. Claimed to be “research” level only but there are calculations that are good predictors.
Statins can cause a lot of health issues and no benefits for many people.
Insulin is a paramount marker. Blood sugar tests are not. You have to dive deeper than that.
Profit over Population Health – at the European Parliament ! Aseem Malhotra
2018
Dr. Ted Naiman on Blood Tests, Diabetes, Obesity, Carbohydrate and more
Calcium Score
Preventing Calcification and Heart Attacks: Ivor and Cardiologist Joel Kahn
Want to Reverse Your Calcification and Heart Disease? Here’s How! Podcast Ep21 with Biochemist Patrick Theut
Reversing Your CAC Score and Heart Disease with Patrick Theut (different interviewer – a few different gems.)
Protect Australia Now 
