Why is the sun good for you
Top 5 Benefits of SUN that ARE NOT Vitamin D
today I'm gonna share with you the top 5
proven health benefits of exposing
yourself to the Sun that are not vitamin
D what's going on everybody how you
doing it's blake bowman here with
guerrillas and fitness and in today's
video i'm gonna be talking about what i
consider to be the 5 top benefits of
sunlight exposure that just so happened
to not be vitamin d okay so if you've
been in the health scene or health arena
for a while then you probably know of
the importance of exposing yourself to
the sunshine in order to get vitamin d
basically when UV light hits the skin it
allows us to produce vitamin D in our
body and that is a major health benefit
of sunlight exposure however there are
many other types of health benefits
associated with sunlight exposure that
are not directly associated with vitamin
D and that's what I'm going to be going
over with you today benefit number one
is regular sunlight exposure actually
helps to balance and optimize your
circadian rhythm and if you don't know
what your circadian rhythm is it's
essentially your body's internal clock
it's your body's sense of what time it
is and this is a very important thing to
make sure is is functioning properly and
is optimized because your circadian
rhythm has influence over every
physiologic system in the body
everything from hormone production to
your mood energy to brain function is
all influenced to a degree by sunlight
exposure and your circadian rhythm okay
and so for that reason you want to
expose yourself to as much sunlight as
you can so you can optimize your
circadian rhythm and optimize all of the
physiologic symp systems that your
circadian rhythm influences benefit
number two of regular sunlight exposure
is that actually reduces your risk of
dying from certain types of cancers like
colon cancer prostate cancer pancreatic
cancer and a couple other ones and
basically you know
there are some cancers that are actually
associated with overt UV exposure ok
skin cancer can develop from getting too
much UV exposure which comes from the
Sun if you get burned
or something like that it's definitely
not good it's never good to get a
sunburn however moderate sun exposure
you know you know on a frequent basis
that like I said has actually been shown
to reduce mortality associated with
certain types of cancer I put that study
here on the screen for you to look into
yourself benefit number three of regular
sunlight exposure is that it reduces
depression and increases happiness okay
and the way that it does this is by
stimulating the production of both
serotonin and dopamine in the body's
tissues these are hormones that when
they're in when they're not in
sufficient quantities in the body that
are associated with depression you know
lethargy lack of energy and when you
have higher levels of these things you
know you have a better mood better
positive outlook on life so it basically
is more conducive to feeling happier
being in a happier state and having less
of a depressed state benefit number four
of regular sunlight exposure is it
boosts cognitive function so your brain
functions better when you're regularly
exposed to sunlight okay
studies have shown that sunlight
avoidance or light avoidance actually
causes cognitive impairment and the
exact opposite is true for you know
being exposed to sunlight being exposed
to bright light it actually improves
your brain function the last big benefit
of regular sunlight exposures for men
and it has to do with your sex hormone
levels so basically being exposed to
sunlight on a regular basis increases
serum levels in the blood of sex
hormones like testosterone your male sex
hormone that gives you you know your
confidence your your vitality your
strength a lot of things that are
associated with masculine
characteristics come from testosterone
that's one of the sex hormones that is
actually increased due to regular
sunlight exposure just letting it hit
your body the data it does show that
letting it hit your your testes actually
increases the sex hormone production
effect even more obviously be careful
with that you don't want to get a
sunburn down there that's it for today's
video I really hope that you enjoyed
this and the information that I shared
with you here if you did go ahead and
give that video a thumbs up down below
that really
helps me out also if you haven't
subscribe to my YouTube channel click
that subscribe button down below right
next to guerrillas and fitness also if
you want to learn more information like
this how to use light and other weird
things to improve your health and your
biology that are not well known then you
need to get my ebook holistic health
hacks it's available for free on my
website all you have to do is click the
link in the description down below or
the first link in the comment section
what that will do is it will take you to
my website once you're there I'll ask
you for your email as soon as you enter
in your email I'll send you a copy of my
book holistic health hacks within 5
minutes if you're not following me on
instagram yet go ahead and do that
there's a link in the description down
below I'm putting all sorts of new
content on there that I don't put here
on YouTube so make sure you check that
out also if you're looking for another
spot to get holistic health hacks this
button will take you there if you
haven't subscribed to my YouTube channel
yet at this point in the video you can
do so that again you know right over
here clicking that and if you are
looking for more videos like this one
then check this video over here and I'll
see you next time
