@livevitaeuk It’s so surprising when people are layered up all year round and when they take their shirts off in the peak of summer, they surprisingly burn 😅
You cannot discuss sunlight exposure without shining some light on shade. The two are married and cannot be divorced from one another
Sun and shade are a coupled system provided by Mother Nature. This can be proven by the fact that plants reflect NIR light which is regenerative to the human body
Think about how incredible it feels to sit under a large tree during a hot summer’s day
When you’ve sunbathed for a considerable amount of time, seek shade
Think about this from the standpoint of hormetic stressors, more specifically exercise
When you finish a training session, you seek rest to recover from it so that the benefits of eustress manifest
Think of shade in the same way, as that rest from an adequate amount of sunbathing during the day
It’s a form of recovery, and an important one at that for people who are new to getting their skin in the game
It’s a great way to avoid burns as well
The same applies to clothing
People new to this realm who are plugged into the centralized notion of midday sunlight do not think about it this way
They genuinely believe that UV light is a toxin to be avoided at all costs, even if it means being the only mammal in nature to lather themselves up in artificial sunscreens and avoid the sun as much as possible
What I propose with the framework of building a solar callus (tan) is sensible and effective
What dermatologists and society views as “common sense” is twisted, unscientific, and horrifying
What they also don’t understand is that melanin production is the most effective sunscreen there is because it blocks 99% of all UV
And guess what?
All skin types can make more of it
People often rebuttal this point with the idea that melanin solely exists as a means of protecting their skin because UV light is toxic to skin cells
But that’s a hyper-reductionist idea
They fail to realize that nature created melanin to be the most powerful pro-life polymer in existence
How else can they explain its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, radioprotective, free electron generating, anti-viral, anti-venom, neuroprotective, anti-cancer, heavy metal detoxifying, anti-microbial benefits?
Seek sun, but also seek shade
Nature turns sunlight into matter. This matter makes up all the things we observe, including us. Light capability continually surprises scientists and the public alike when they exmine it. How can you examine it. Go outside your house right now and look at the plant life and flower life around you. You will learn something about the solar light you are receiving. Nature teaches if you are a close observer.
Look at the pictures below from the garden. This is how good you can look if you're connected to the earth, in the sun all day and get all the water you need ... this is within 10 meters from the house.
Wild flowers... no help, no intervention from any human, no gardener or bio hacker, no supplements, no gym.
Just nature... Why don't you take this simple lesson in mito-hacking and begin to act like a flower and and might just turn out as pretty as one: barefoot and naked is the Decentralized Rx for wellness.
Our ancestors good days were infinitely harder than our toughest days
They were the real superhumans
All we can do is level up and get as close as we can to reaching their power
Out of ALL of the things I want to see changed in the world, chief among them is fixing the lighting problem.
Here is a small campus that could be very inviting, but it has very harsh, bright white light lining the paths everywhere you go.
On the left is a normal photo, and on the right is one with blue-light blocking glasses (apologies, imperfect iPhone 8 photography).
Look how extreme the difference is when we subtract the blue frequencies. Everything becomes significantly warmer.
Night time isn’t supposed to be day time! There is no reason for things to be like this way other than carelessness and wrong ideas about energy.
Warmer night light is a more beautiful night experience, and walking becomes significantly more pleasurable.
The irony that people think the sun causes diseases when no time in history have we been more disconnected and unexposed from it.
"In Western societies, people spend most of their waking hours indoors, exposing themselves to virtually no sunlight."