Chapter 6 - Exercise: Use It Or Lose ItWant More Info? Search HERE
Exercising, (preferably in the sun so the body can produce its own vitamin D) is one of the most important factors for keeping your bones strong and helping to replace bone loss. Use it or lose it! A little more about Vitamin D: it’s needed for calcium to get into the bone matrix. Without it you can eat all the calcium in the world and it’ll never make it into your bones. The very best and safest source of Vitamin D is exposure to sunshine. According to research by Dr. David Williams, publisher of “Alternatives,” one should get exposure to sunshine daily, but not enough to turn your skin pink, and it should be WITHOUT sunscreen. Sunscreen contains up to five different cancer-causing chemicals, especially para-aminobenzoic acid ( PABA), the chemical hailed most for its sun screening qualities. The other four to look for: benzophenone-3 (Bp-3), homosalate (HMS), octyl-methoxycinnamate (OMC) and 4-methyl-benzylidene camphor (4-MBC). Vitamin D deficiencies have also been linked to glucose intolerance, degenerative vascular disease, high blood pressure and depression. All four of these symptoms are typically associated with diabetes. So the very first argument for exercising regularly is to make sure that we’ll be able continue to move about, to work, to play and to have our bodies continue to function the way they were designed to function. “Use it or lose it,” Wolfe’s Law. As well as protecting us from losing functions and vital tissue, exercise accomplishes several other benefits which would be difficult to accomplish by any other means. For instance, it boosts the effectiveness of two separate circulation systems in the body: blood circulation and lymphatic circulation. The lymphatic system is a labyrinth of channels with filters that runs alongside the circulatory system. It circulates a substance called interstitial fluid through the lymph nodes throughout the body. These lymph nodes remove and destroy microorganisms and microscopic particles that shouldn’t be there. This is why we get swollen “glands” when we’re sick or have an infection. They’re not really glands at all, but lymph nodes swollen with bacteria, viruses and/or fungi. This
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