Sunlight Hypersensitivity Isn’t Natural
In other articles, you will learn all the benefits of sunlight. In order to get these benefits, we need to spend a good amount of time in the sun. Let’s discuss what your body needs, step by step, to get lots of sunlight and eliminate hypersensitivity for good.
Start slowly
Follow these steps in order, and start slowly if you aren’t used to being in the sun. If you get any reactions, reduce your time or even take a break for a day or two. Your body must adapt to the higher energy over time.
Ditch the sunglasses and sunscreen
No way. This guy is telling me to stop wearing sunglasses and sunscreen? Yes, and with good reason. Sunglasses were first mass produced by Sam Foster in 1929. Now, we wear sunglasses to protect against cataracts supposedly caused by UV sunlight. Were we getting more cases of cataracts before then? No. Why do animals not need sunglasses? Did you know that high vitamin D levels, from UV sunlight on your skin, protects against cataracts? https://doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S84790
Unbalanced blue light is likely the true culprit of cataracts as we will see in other articles. UV sunlight in your eyes is essential for your body to prepare for and react to UV sunlight exposure. If you block UV light going into your eyes, you are preventing a hormone called α-MSH from being created from the UV light splitting a pro-hormone called POMC. You will burn like crazy if you don’t create α-MSH, as it is responsible for melanin production in your skin. Melanin is a pigment and semi-conductor that makes you look tan. It is capable of absorbing all frequencies of sunlight.
Sunscreen is full of chemicals, and most types damage coral reefs. It blocks UV light on your skin, but this UV interaction is critical for producing many hormones including sex hormones, serotonin, melatonin, dopamine, and vitamin D. Among other things, you also need UV light on your skin to have optimal restorative deep sleep. We will examine this more later.
Optimize your Circadian Rhythm
We will get into more details of your circadian rhythm later on, but I cannot stress enough that optimal rhythm is key to good long term health. The key here is to wake up and see sunrise outside every day, and limit artificial lights after sunset. This isn’t easy at first, and I know it certainly isn’t a popular idea. But what’s popular right now is getting diseases and taking pharmaceuticals as you get old, so in some cases we must strive for the opposite of popular if we want to thrive. Everyone around you is doing it so it must be fine right? This herd mentality will lead to years of suffering as you die of diseases you never thought you’d get.
Unnatural lights from man-made sources also emit a range of frequencies that are alien to our cells. They are much higher in blue light because of the higher efficiency of blue vs red. These frequencies propagate changes we will discuss later, which are involved in lower cellular efficiency. They also tell your brain it’s 12 noon. Is this a good idea at 9 pm at night? Unfortunately they lead to the destruction of Melanin, Vitamin D, and Omega 3 DHA, all of which are essential for your cells to absorb and use sunlight properly. Unnatural light includes blue light as well as light that comes from modern electronics. Yes, microwaves, wifi, bluetooth, cellular, and radiowaves are all light — you just cant see them because our eyes didn’t evolve a need to see those frequencies primarily because they didn’t exist..
Beyond your eyes seeing the light first thing in the morning, your skin needs it as well. This is mainly important in the summer. The combination of red and blue frequencies at this time in the morning prepares your skin for the higher energy UV light in the middle of the day. It does this by creating melatonin in your cells which acts as an antioxidant. UV also is absorbed by water in your cells and throughout your body to charge separate it into EZ (exclusion zone) water. This EZ water can carry more of the energy through your body from the impact of high energy UV light. Without this, it’s like trying to power your oven with a thin little phone charging cable - you’re frying the circuit.
Finally, your body needs to be touching the ground in some way at least for 2-5 minutes at sunrise. You will likely need to adjust your perspective to be open to this idea. We lost our connection to the earth when rubber sole shoes became popular around the 1920s. The earth is full of electrons, which are important as you’ll learn in other articles,
Inflammation also reduces your body’s ability to absorb sunlight. We can define inflammation as an imbalance of Protons to Electrons in the human body (too much of a positive charge), where there are too many protons in the body. Grounding is very helpful in reversing inflammation. Aim for as much time as possible, but ideally for 1 hour or more at a time.
Aim for a bare minimum of 30 minutes of sunlight in your eyes and on your skin starting at sunrise if you plan to get high UV exposure that day. No artificial lights or device screens before this time in the morning unless absolutely necessary.
Take a look at your diet
Your cell membranes are made up largely of fat. The fat they are made of depends on what fats you eat. You need a proper balance of Omega 3 and Omega 6 to absorb sunlight safely.
A type of Omega 3 fat called DHA is essential to absorbing sunlight. It’s a unique molecule with a special structure of electrons that acts as a soft cushion for high energy UV light, slowing it down to allow your cells to “catch” the energy. This is primarily found in seafood like wild-caught salmon and oysters, as well as high fat grass-fed meats. You can only get DHA in the proper SN2 form that your eyes and brain need from animal foods, but plant based algal DHA is better than nothing — this will still balance your skin’s 3:6 ratio to allow for UV absorbtion.
On the other hand, Omega 6 is a type of inflammatory polyunsaturated fat. It is very fragile, can degrade easily, and doesn’t have a role in absorbing high energy UV light. If you have too much Omega 6 (particularly Linoliec Acid), it will accumulate in your cell membranes, making them vulnerable to UV light damage due to it’s fragile nature. Omega 6 fats are found in high amounts primarily in seed oils — vegetable/canola, soy, sunflower, safflower, peanut, rice bran etc. These are all highly refined and unnatural oils that aren’t compatible with the human body. If you don’t want to burn in the sun, increase your risk of cancer, or lower your testosterone levels significantly https://doi.org/10.4103/1008-682X.190323, I would cut these out completely and ruthlessly. Ask every restaurant (most use it) and check every food label. Once eaten, these Omega 6 fats will stay in your cells for months to years.
Another critical aspect of absorbing UV light without skin damage is DHEA. A natural precursor to both male and female sex hormones, DHEA allows skin to heal properly from sunburns https://doi.org/10.1006/jsre.1995.1162. It can help you avoid any adverse reactions during the healing process, promote proper healing, and prevent long term damage if you do get too much UV light before your tan is built up. DHEA is naturally produced in the adrenal glands, but most of us are low on it. The best way to increase DHEA levels is through a high fat diet. Adrenal function relies on fat in your diet to produce critical hormones including DHEA and cortisol. A lack of fat will cause cortisol and other hormone issues leading to higher stress and circadian disruption. For very bad burns in those who have not built up their solar callous (tan), small amounts of DHEA cream can be applied to the affected areas to mitigate damage.
You also will be hypersensitive to UV light if you eat plants that have photosensitizers in them. These include coumarins found in citrus fruits, parsley, celery, parsnip, dill, fennel, figs. Essential oils including but not limited to bergamot, sandalwood, and lavender, also make your skin more sensitized to UV light.
Build up your Melanin and Vitamin D levels
Once you’ve been doing the first 4 steps for a month, you can start to increase your time outside in the middle part of the day. Start at 12 noon for 5 minutes on day one, increasing the duration by 5 minutes on each day when no negative reaction happens for the previous day. The goal here is to gradually build your tolerance by allowing your skin to absorb more light. Add 10 minutes more if it’s cloudy.
Beyond what the first 4 steps provide, your body will start making more melanin from the UV-A light, which you will see as a tan. Don’t worry about immediate redness in your skin when going into the sun — this is just your skin sending more blood to the surface of your skin to collect more of the light and deliver nutrients to your skin. A tan doesn’t show up until around 4 hours from exposure. Melanin absorbs all frequencies of light, and does a whole lot more that we will discuss later on.
You will also start making more vitamin D in your skin from this mid day UV-B exposure. Vitamin D is actually not a vitamin but acts as a hormone, and is essential for absorbing UV light. It reduces your risk factor for pretty much every disease out there. But in order to produce vitamin D properly, you need it’s precursors. Vitamin D and many other things in your body must be sulfated, so you must get high amounts of sulfur in your diet. You also must have plenty of cholesterol available because vitamin D is made from it. We will explore cholesterol more in coming articles.
Conclusion
Sensitivity or allergy to the sun is a curable condition caused by modern influences. When your skin doesn’t have the natural signals it needs, it can’t prepare itself to absorb UV light later in the day. If your skin is also full of unstable polyunsaturated Omega 6 fats from seed oils, UV light will easily oxidize your cells leading to huge amounts of damage and a bad sunburn. Follow the signals of nature and build up your solar callous to absorb all the benefits sunlight has to offer.
