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\nThe Benefits of Near Infrared Light<\/a><\/p>\n

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by Raymond Peat, Ph.D., Ray Peat’s Newsletter — from:
\nTownsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, June 1996, Page 83 – 85<\/p>\n

Q: You mention sunlight as beneficial to your health. How?<\/p>\n

For example, it can cure depression, improve immunity, stimulate
\nour metabolism while decreasing food craving, and increase our
\nintelligence.<\/p>\n

Although exposure to sun does contribute to aging of the skin,
\npeople who spend years working outdoors have a reduced incidence of
\ncancer of internal organs. For many years, it has been known that
\nthe death rate increases during the winter months and also
\nincreases at night (winter or summer). Most deaths occur just
\nbefore dawn when the body is in its least efficient state. It is
\njust in the last few decades that we have been learning the reasons
\nfor this beneficial effect of light. It turns out that daylight
\nstimulates our ability to use oxygen for energy production, and
\nprotects our tissues from some of the free-radical toxins that are
\nproduced by normal metabolism, by stress, or by radiation.<\/p>\n

While ultraviolet light, and even blue light, tend to suppress our
\ncells’ ability to produce energy, those types of light penetrate
\nonly a short distance into living tissue, and so it is mainly the
\nskin which is damaged by too much sunlight. Since blood does
\ncirculate in the layers of skin which receive ultraviolet rays,
\nprolonged sun exposure can damage the immune system by injuring
\nwhite blood cells, but usually the stimulating effect of the other
\ntypes of light that penetrate more deeply offset this effect on the
\nimmune system.<\/p>\n

Many health food stores are now selling melatonin, to reduce sleep
\nand ” prevent cancer. ” They have taken some information out of
\ncontext, and don’t realize how dangerous melatonin is. It makes
\nthe brain sluggish, causes the sex organs to shrink, and damages
\nimmunity by shrinking the thymus gland. It is the hormone of
\ndarkness and winter, and is produced in the pineal gland by any
\nstress which increases adrenalin. Adequate sun light suppresses
\nthe formation of melatonin.<\/p>\n

This means that the immune system is most responsive in the summer,
\nwhen days are long. Daylight stops the stress reaction, and
\nprotects our immune system.<\/p>\n

Q: Doesn’t exposure to the sun age you?<\/p>\n

This effect is variable, and depends on our hormones and diet.<\/p>\n

The unsaturated oils have been identified as a major factor in skin
\naging. For example, two groups of rabbits were fed diets
\ncontaining either corn oil or coconut oil, and their backs were
\nshaved, so sunlight could fall directly onto their skin. The
\nanimals that ate corn oil developed prematurely wrinkled skin,
\nwhile the animals that ate coconut oil didn’t show any harm from
\nthe sun exposure. In a study at the University of California,
\nphotographs of two groups of people were selected, pairing people
\nof the same age, one who had eaten an unsaturated fat rich diet,
\nthe other who had eaten a diet low in unsaturated fats. A panel of
\njudges was asked to sort them by their apparent ages, and the
\nsubjects who consumed larger amounts of the unsaturated oils were
\nconsistently judged to be older than those who ate less, showing
\nthe same age-accelerating effects of the unsaturated oils that were
\ndemonstrated by the rabbit experiments.<\/p>\n

While it is important to avoid overexposure to ultraviolet light,
\nthe skin damage that we identify with aging is largely a product of
\nour diet.<\/p>\n

Q: Don’t you have to avoid sunlight because of skin cancer?<\/p>\n

The type of skin cancer which is clearly caused by sunlight is a
\nrelatively harmless type of cancer, which appears only in
\nsun-damaged skin. Melanoma, which is often called a skin cancer,
\nbecause it sometimes begins in moles, does not have such a simple
\nrelationship to sunlight, and its incidence is significantly
\nincreased by the use of estrogen.<\/p>\n

It is often said that the great increase in deaths from melanoma
\nduring the last 60 years has been caused by an increased popularity
\nof sunbathing, but during the same time there has been a great
\nincrease in the incidence of cancer of the prostate, which is in a
\nlocation that gets very little exposure to light. What these two
\ncancers have in common is a sensitivity to estrogen, and it is
\nduring this same period of time that we have been exposed to
\nincreased amounts of estrogen-like chemicals in the environment as
\na result of industrial pollution: Dioxins, phenols, chlorinated
\nhydrocarbons, DDT, smoke, etc. It is likely that these cancers
\n(and others) are caused by the estrogenic pollutants.<\/p>\n

The incidence of melanoma is consistently lower at greater
\nelevations, where ultraviolet light is more intense, than at lower
\nelevations. It is common for melanoma to develop on relatively
\nshaded areas, including the middle of the back and the inside of
\nthe thigh, unlike the ordinary less malignant skin cancers, which
\ndevelop most often on the forehead, nose, ear, cheek, and lip,
\nwhere sun exposure is greatest. People who work outside have a low
\nincidence of melanoma according to some studies, and this is
\nsometimes said to be because they don’t get sunburned, as pale
\npeople do when they spend time in the sun after being indoors for
\nlong periods. Sunburn does cause freckling, which is a clumping of
\npigment cells, but recent studies show that children who get
\nsunburned are not at increased risk for melanoma. Sunburn causes
\ncomplex changes in the tissue, including weakened immunity.<\/p>\n

To avoid the aging and immuno- suppressive side effects of
\nsunlight, it seems best for sunlight to come through a window glass
\nwhich removes most of the ultraviolet light, and some of the blue
\nlight. Plastic film is available which contains copper that removes
\nthis harmful part of sunlight, and can be applied to ordinary
\nwindow glass. Sitting in sunlight coming through a window of this
\nsort, for short times during the day, is very protective. Besides
\nprotecting against cancer, it helps to keep the mood and energy
\nlevel high, by keeping melatonin low and stimulating metabolism.<\/p>\n

Recently, the polyunsaturated oils have been identified as the main
\nthing in cells that radiation interacts with, to cause cellular
\ndamage. Vitamin E, taken internally or even applied to the skin,
\nhas been found to reduce the damage produced by exposure to
\nultraviolet radiation, which is logical, since it interrupts the
\nchain reactions of toxic free-radicals produced when unsaturated
\noils are oxidized by radiation or other injury. Aspirin has been
\nfound to have a similar effect in reducing the harmful effects
\nwhich develop in the skin after sunlight overexposure. Coconut oil
\nhas been used for generations in ” suntan lotions, ” and whether it
\nis absorbed through the skin or eaten as a food, it clearly has a
\nprotective antioxidant function. Carotene seems to work with
\nvitamin E in the skin to reduce injury by ultraviolet radiation.
\nCaffeine also has shown a protective action against radiation, but
\nits mechanism of action isn’t clearly understood.<\/p>\n

Q: Why not use sun-blockers, so you can get light without getting
\nburned?<\/p>\n

If a sunscreen lotion is based on the use of an opaque reflective
\nmaterial, such as zinc oxide or titanium oxide, that substance
\nremains mostly on the surface of the skin. This should make it
\nfairly harmless, though it is possible that traces of titanium
\ncould be absorbed with oils into the skin, where it could be made
\ntoxic by interaction with ultraviolet rays.<\/p>\n

However, other chemicals used in the sun screen lotions, such as
\nPABA derivatives, also react dangerously with light, and are easily
\nabsorbed in significant quantities into the deeper layers of the
\nskin, where they can cause mutations.<\/p>\n

For example, several recent studies have found that the
\nsun-blockers, which decrease the ordinary skin damage caused by
\nultraviolet rays, actually increase the risk of developing
\nmelanoma, by causing mutations when the cells’ chromosomes interact
\nwith the sunscreen and the light. (Something similar happens in the
\ndisease, porphyria. A pigment that accumulates causes the skin to
\nbecome very sensitive to the sun. Estrogen is known to intensify
\nthe disease.)<\/p>\n

Even natural colored compounds, which have sometimes been used in
\nsuntan lotions, should be avoided, since they might be able to
\ntransmit the energy of light to the chromosomes, causing mutations.<\/p>\n

Radiation from the sun reacts with the unsaturated fats you have
\neaten to cause oxidative damage to skin cells. Vitamin E, vitamin
\nA and carotene are antioxidants that prevent skin cell damage, when
\nthey are taken internally or applied to the surface of the skin.
\nNone of these causes any harmful effects in the sun.<\/p>\n

Aspirin reduces the iron content of the blood serum, and also
\ninhibits the formation of the sometimes-toxic prostaglandins from
\nfatty acids. Coconut oil is very resistant to radiation damage
\nand, like vitamin E, tends to stop the chain reactions that occur
\nin unsaturated fats. The old formula for suntan oil, coconut oil
\nwith iodine, might turn out to be a safe sunscreen, since the brown
\niodine absorbs light, as other ” U.V. blockers ” do, but iodine is
\nalso an effective chain breaker that inactivates free radicals, and
\nit can’t be absorbed into cells in its brown form. It doesn’t have
\nthe potential for causing cancer that the popular sunscreens do.<\/p>\n

Q: Is sunlight still beneficial if you use a safe sun blocker?<\/p>\n

The popular chemical sun blockers are meant to stop the ultraviolet
\nrays. If they can do that, without increasing the risk of
\nmelanoma, then they are very beneficial, because this will allow
\nyou to get a long exposure to direct sunlight, which penetrates
\ndeeply and has an anti-stress effect. But so far, there is no
\nresearch that shows any of the chemical ultraviolet blockers is
\nsafe.<\/p>\n

Q: Why do people seem to get sicker in the wintertime, often right
\nafter Christmas?<\/p>\n

Nights are much longer in the winter, and even in the summer, death
\nrates are higher during the night than in daytime. December 21 is
\nthe day with the fewest hours of sunlight, but the cumulative
\ndamage of prolonged darkness reaches its peak about a month later.
\nCold temperatures do have some harmful effects, but by keeping
\npeople indoors, or bundled up in thick clothing, cold weather also
\ncauses us to get very little exposure to sunlight. Winter sickness
\nis mainly the result of a ” light deficiency. ” <\/p>\n

When young sailors spent 6 months in the continuous polar night of
\nAntarctica, they developed the same signs of nocturnal stress that
\nare common in old people during the night. Many old people
\nhabitually get up before dawn, because they find it impossible to
\nstay asleep. Even healthy young people (and animals) experience
\nsome degree of nocturnal stress as soon as the light is turned off
\nat night, and their body responds with an increased production of
\nadrenalin and cortisol.<\/p>\n

The energy-producing part of cells, the mitochondrion, shows signs
\nof being increasingly damaged as the night progresses, but they are
\ngradually restored to their normal condition during the daytime
\nlight hours. This means that our greatest ability to resist stress
\nis in the late afternoon, and we are most susceptible to injury at
\ndawn. In the winter, nights are long and days are short, so we
\nexperience a cumulative increase in our susceptibility to
\nstress-injury during the winter months.<\/p>\n

The light which penetrates deeply into our tissues (mainly orange
\nand red light) is able to improve the efficiency of energy
\nproduction’ and to suppress the toxic free-radicals that are always
\nbeing formed in cells.<\/p>\n

Q: Can you get enough sunlight during the summer to hold you
\nthrough the winter?<\/p>\n

No, many of the beneficial effects of bright light disappear during
\njust a few hours of darkness, though the restoration of our tissues
\nthat happens during the summer puts us into a better state for
\nsurviving the winter, for example by allowing massive regeneration
\nof the thymus to occur. (This occurs in adults, not just in
\nchildren. The idea that the thymus disappears after puberty is
\nbased on autopsies. If a person lives for even 3 hours after an
\naccident or the onset of sickness, the thymus has had time to
\nshrink.)<\/p>\n

Frequent short exposures to bright light is almost as valuable as
\ncontinuous sunlight, and it is less likely to cause skin aging.<\/p>\n

Q: How much sunlight do we need a day for general health?<\/p>\n

If artificial light is bright enough, it is as effective as
\nsunlight at stopping the stress reaction, but people seldom use
\nlights that are bright enough. Generally, people and animals are
\nhealthier when days are longer than 12 hours, that is, after March
\n21 and before September 20. When days are shorter than 12 hours,
\nartificial lights should be used from sunset until bedtime, but the
\ngreatest brightness probably doesn’t have to be continuous.
\nStudies on isolated organs and tissues suggest that a few seconds
\nof penetrating bright light are enough to break the free radical
\nchain reactions, slowing the production of toxic substances, which
\ntend to increase in concentration during nocturnal stress. A few
\nseconds’ exposure to the direct light of ten 150 Watt incandescent
\nbulbs, for just a few minutes every two or three hours, might
\nprovide more effective protection than continuous exposure to a
\nsingle 100 Watt light.<\/p>\n

Glossary<\/p>\n

Mutations are changes in DNA molecules which can kill cells, or
\naccelerate their aging, or contribute to the development of cancer.<\/p>\n

Cellular respiration: the ability of cells to consume oxygen and
\nproduce useful biological energy.<\/p>\n

Free radicals are parts of molecules that can be produced by
\nradiation (including sunlight), which contribute to cells’ aging,
\ncancer, and mutations.<\/p>\n

The thymus gland is an essential part of our immune system, and it
\nshrinks when we don’t get enough light.<\/p>\n

Melatonin, or pineal hormone: the pineal gland in the brain
\nresponds to an absence of light (or to any stress which increases
\nthe adrenalin systems) by secreting a hormone called melatonin,
\nwhich lightens the skin, makes the brain sluggish, turns off
\nthyroid and progesterone production, and suppresses immunity and
\nfertility.<\/p>\n

Immunosuppression refers to any process that lowers the efficiency
\nof our immune system, such as stress, radiation, or poisoning.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/p>\n

1) In fall and winter, use very bright incandescent lights daily
\nfrom sunset until bedtime.<\/p>\n

2) Expose as much skin as possible to the bright light; even a
\nminute is better than nothing. Thin, light-colored clothing
\ntransmits a considerable amount of light.<\/p>\n

3) Infrared bulbs, with clear glass, are especially beneficial.
\nSpecial low temperature red lights are available.<\/p>\n

4) It is better to get your sunlight through windows, because it
\nhas less ultraviolet light than direct sunlight.<\/p>\n

5) Don’t use sun-blocking lotions, other than the simply
\nreflective type (zinc oxide or titanium oxide).<\/p>\n

6) Decrease the use of unsaturated oils in the diet, and use
\ncoconut oil as food and also on the skin during exposure to direct
\nsunlight.<\/p>\n

7) Vitamin E and aspirin reduce the harmful effects of sunburn,
\neven when used after exposure to the sun, they can be applied
\ntopically to the burned skin. Vitamin E often contains some soy
\noil, so I recommend small doses of about 100 ma. per day.<\/p>\n

Correspondence:<\/p>\n

Raymond Peat, Ph.D.
\nP.O. Box 6764
\nEugene, Oregon 97405 USA
\nFax 503-683-4279<\/p>\n

Home page:
\nhttp:\/\/www.efn.org\/~raypeat<\/p>\n

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