Greetings.
Eric Bakker.
Thanks for coming back, checking out my channel.
I like reading studies, and here's a really cool one.
I'll show you.
We're going to talk about this one.
As you know, there's been a big increase globally in autoimmune disease, inflammatory disease,
heart disease, many different illnesses.
There's been a big increase in them.
And we call these idiopathic.
Well, what the hell does idiopathic mean?
Well, when you learn medical jargon, you hear these sort of terms, idiopathic.
It doesn't mean that you're a pathetic idiot.
What it means is there's no known cause.
We don't know.
The pathos is I think the Latin for disease.
So there's no known cause really for a lot of these.
Well, no scientific cause, but there's always a cause.
It just hasn't really been found.
To me, it's clear.
When you see studies like this, it's pretty obvious.
This is the first study that actually shows there's a relationship between ultraviolet
light and an improvement in the gut microbiota.
This is really exciting stuff.
I just really like this sort of stuff.
This really correlates with a lot of the information that I've been presenting now for so long.
Science is finally validating that lifestyle, especially getting out in the sun... we'll
talk about specific times in a minute... but getting out in the sun really improves your
health.
But now science is showing that getting out in the sun actually improves your gut microbiota.
Funny that.
Well, I'll tell you, I love going out in the sun, but I'm no fool.
I wouldn't go out in the middle of the day on a hot summer's day.
Do wear a hat and take protection.
But I'm quite lucky with my skin and some people are, I suppose.
I've spent many hours in the sun.
So if you look at the sun and especially the ultraviolet spectrum, UVA and UVB, the ultraviolet
A is actually the really damaging one.
That's the one that really peppers the earth.
95% of the ultraviolet that comes from the sun is UVA.
It's a very powerful light source.
It penetrates deep into the skin.
It can create a lot of harm and damage for some people.
I look at people like my mom and myself.
I spent many hours in the sun as a child and I sort of got away with it, but other people
don't.
They get cancers and melanomas, and especially people like my partner, Tracy, with very fair
skin, they get fried.
So they've got to watch out.
UVB is a different band, a narrow band.
It's particularly the narrow band of the UVB has a really good effect on the body.
This is what we are looking for to increase the vitamin D. 25-hydroxy vitamin D gets a
good boost up by this.
Now the study is very interesting, because what it shows, they've got a group.
They've got healthy cohorts.
So here they've got two groups of females.
One was given vitamin D leading up to winter time, and the other one was not given vitamin
D. The one that was not given vitamin D, in fact, both groups had this, were exposed to
ultraviolet B, three or four times per week.
They were exposed.
And of course vitamin D levels were assessed throughout.
What they discovered after only a mere week or two, that there was this 7.3% increase
actually in the vitamin D in the bloodstream of the people who were exposed to this.
Haha, well we already knew that.
We know that ultraviolet B increases vitamin D. But the crazy thing is they also found
an improvement in the gut microbiota.
They found changes, they found bugs increasing, certain bacteria were coming up and really
responding.
So whether that's a relationship with the vitamin D, or a separate issue, remains to
be seen.
But the point I'm making here is when you go out in the sun, you're actually improving
your gut microbiota, and science is finally validating that skin exposure modulates the
human intestinal microbiome.
So all those people trapped in offices all day that rarely go out in the sun, you need
to get out in the sun.
I've always maintained this.
The sun should not be shunned.
It's healthy.
But the best time to go in the sun, of course, is usually before 10 am or 11, and then again
late afternoon.
You don't go in the sun all in the middle of the day lying in a bikini, and then wondering
why you look like a lobster.
The UVB is what makes the skin red and burns it.
So common sense.
You wear light clothing and stuff like that, and you protect your skin.
I am not a fan of that stuff that you slap all over, those chemicals you slap all over
your body.
I prefer people use things like coconut oil, and particularly to stay out of the hottest
part of the day, and also to wear some more protective clothing.
So there you have it.
It makes sense to get out in the sun.
Now I'm getting out in the sun soon because you've got spring time here, and of course
I'm short sleeves, so it's warming up.
We're going to get probably in the nineties here maybe, who knows.
Mid-nineties next week.
It's going to be hot, hot, hot.
Thanks for tuning in.
Appreciate the viewers.
I always do.
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