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Covid-19 & The Sun: A Lesson From The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
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[quote:Daniel Higdon:MV80MzA2OTY5Xzc4NDUxODA5X0YzRDAxQUM2] [quote:Anonymous Coward 77967666:MV80MzA2OTY5Xzc4NDUwMzAxXzQ5RTIxQTcw] [quote:Anonymous Coward 75133552:MV80MzA2OTY5Xzc4NDUwMTQ1XzI5NjdDRjAz] vitamin D3. It's the Sun giving that vitamin. I've been telling people to load up on D3. Not vitamin C. [/quote] Lol, this is all I hear over and over again about sunlight. Saying sunlight increases D3 is like food increases calories. There are so many incredible benefits to sunlight exposure, if it was the D3 that mattered, taking a supplement would confer you the same benefits. It doesn't. Sunlight boosts all hormonal, immune, and neurotransmitter activity. Sunlight directly on the testicles, for instance, has been shown to boost testosterone levels DRASTICALLY, time and time again. It speeds up your metabolism, tunes your circadian rhythm, improves sleep dramatically, which in turn increases your endogenous levels of growth hormone you endogenous release of melatonin and serotonin, increases your production of dopamine, lowers cortisol. Some of you who have taken tropical vacations and/or spent time in the outdoors, exposing your skin for prolonged periods of time will notice you aren't getting fatter, your sleeping better, you aren't feeling stress the same way, your sex drive is boosted etc, etc [/quote] Thanks for sharing. I also notice sunlight and fresh air improve my mental wellbeing. A walk outside helps a lot whenever I'm feeling down or worried. [/quote]
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This article lines up with a story my great-grandmother always told me. She said when my great-grandfather came home from WWI, he found his mother and some of his siblings in their family home dying of the flu. He opened all of the windows in the house and nursed them back to health. I always wondered why she included that specific part about opening the windows as the main part of the story...
But records from the 1918 pandemic suggest one technique for dealing with influenza — little-known today — was effective. Some hard-won experience from the greatest pandemic in recorded history could help us in the weeks and months ahead.
Put simply, medics found that severely ill flu patients nursed outdoors recovered better than those treated indoors. A combination of fresh air and sunlight seems to have prevented deaths among patients; and infections among medical staff. There is scientific support for this. Research shows that outdoor air is a natural disinfectant. Fresh air can kill the flu virus and other harmful germs. Equally, sunlight is germicidal and there is now evidence it can kill the flu virus.
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The article also mentions sunlight and vitamin D (which I have seen recommended as a supplement to take that may help fight off the virus). Also discusses the homemade face masks that they made back then which were the forerunners of the N95 respirators in use today.
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