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Medical data is for informational purposes only. You should always consult your family physician, or one of our referral physicians prior to treatment.

Stephan Cooter, Ph.D.

Supplement to The Art of Getting Well "Cooter's Comments:

Sunshine Deficiency Diseases" (Sunshine and Health); "Deadly

Alkaloids in Pesticides;" "Sodium Fluoride: The Obedience Drug;"

rights reserved by the The Roger Wyburn-Mason and Jack M.Blount

Foundation for Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease AKA The Arthritis

Trust of America

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Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Poliomyelitis:

The Sunshine Deficiency Diseases

(Sunshine and Health)

by Stephan Cooter, Ph.D.

Maybe we don’t need it. There are even those who have

proposed we could use the sun as a garbage dump for our nuclear

waste, and chances are, we’d find out pretty damn quick how

long we could survive without sunshine.

Of course, life would cease to exist. Plants require sunlight for

photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide into oxygen, to trans-

form water and inorganic minerals into organic minerals, vitamins,

proteins, carbohydrates, and fats for our use, in short to concentrate

all the energy of the sun for sustaining life on Earth.

Joanna Budwig, a German MD, has used one small part of the

sun in flaxseed oil, one tablespoon per meal with the same amount

of cottage cheese or other protein to totally change the blood chem-

istry of a cancer patient back to normal (Well Mind Association

Dr. Budwig’s theory is that normal growth and repair of cells is

impaired in cancer because one unsaturated fat is missing necessary

for normal growth. Based on discoveries made between 1842 and

1888, three German scientists had been able to demonstrate that fat

free diets killed laboratory animals. In 1937, Szent-Gyorgyi won a

Nobel prize for demonstrating that linoleic acid in combination with

sulfur containing proteins produced healthy and necessary oxygen-

ation processes in the body. Also Budwig feels that the skin’s expo-

sure to sunlight in addition to sunlight in vegetable oil is responsible

for more of our energy as human beings than even the Krebs energy

cycle, responsible for at least 30% of everything that we are, every-

thing that is health and healthy. (See "Flax Oil As A True Aid Against

Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases," http://

www.arthritistrust.org.)

Sunlight and vitamin D do affect the pineal and pituitary, which

in turn affect the thyroid, which regulates all the body’s processes, its

use of fatty acids, proteins, and carbohydrates. Without sunshine,

growth, building, and repair would be impossible.

Bears hibernate only when available sunlight diminishes in the

winter. They come out of hibernation when injected with real vitamin

D, the sunshine vitamin. For animals, vitamin D is produced by

transformation of cholesterol on the skin and fur into vitamin D which

is then taken in with grooming. For humans, vitamin D is absorbed

from cholesterol in and on the skin provided sunbathing is not fol-

lowed by washing it off for at least a half hour.

Even vitamin D

, the synthetic version of vitamin D, comes

from sunlight, or rather irradiation with ultraviolet light of vegetable

oils (Townsend Letter for Doctors

). SAD or Seasonal Adjustment

Depression is geared to available light; twenty minutes’ exposure to

intense incandescent light in the morning has changed depression into

normal behavior in a short period of time for people subject to the

syndrome.

Dr. Paul Goldberg, Cambridge researcher, found that neuro-

logical disease doesn’t exist at the equator (International Journal of

Environmental Studies

). There sunshine produces 2 to 4 thousand

IUs of vitamin D per day in contrast to the 400 IUs of the official

Recommended Dietary Allowance. Nor is the risk of MS high at high

altitudes. High altitude above 1000 feet intensifies ultra violet expo-

sure and reduces MS risk. Multiple Sclerosis begins to develop as

human populations move away from the most intense sunlight. Al-

though the data has never been collected by Monthly Morbidity and

Mortality Report

bulletins, the International Polio Network News

does collect support-group addresses for polio groups, a neurological

disease tied to MS according to The Merck Manual

. Fascinating

differences appear when you compare geographical locations of sup-

port groups. In Israel, only one polio support group exists. In the

Northwest, there are dozens, totaling over 1,700 people. In Arizona,

only one support group exists; in Canada, there are dozens. Does

nerve disease thrive on overcast, dark, damp weather, and reverse

itself with sunlight? (Also see "Calcium & Vitamin D Deficiency,"

and "Thyroid Hormone Therapy: Cutting the Gordian Knot," http://

www.arthritistrust.org.)

Fascinatingly, Scotland has islands where an answer lay waiting

to this question, an answer overlooked by orthodox medicine, and

unknown to most people subject to MS. On Shetland and Orkney

islands, multiple sclerosis rates are among the highest in the world,

much higher than the 1 in 1000 people who are subject to the disease

in northern latitudes or smog polluted cities elsewhere. On the Faeroe

Islands with exactly the same sunlight, dampness, overcast, and gloom,

less than normal incidence of MS exists. What accounts for the

difference? On Faeroe Islands, seafood is abundant; on the other, it is

virtually non-existent in the diet. In Norwegian fishing communities

where even margarine has a high fish oil content, MS rates are also

low, but in Norwegian agricultural communities MS is high. The

highest rates of all are in communities with high oat consumption or

high phytate consumption in addition to northern latitudes. Phytates

bind with calcium and are antagonistic to vitamin D. In Northern

Scotland where the MS rates are the highest in the world, both oats,

low seafood diets, and lack of sunshine combine to produce the per-

fect environment for MS.

Unfortunately, no dietary studies were tried using cod liver oil

and avoidance of phytates for those subject to MS to test Dr.

Goldberg’s theory that dietary changes might help new creation of