January 2026 · Newsletter
Sun Exposure Benefits: 7 Proven Ways Sunshine Slashes Cancer Risk
Sunlight, Skin-Cancer Risk & Overall Mortality
Our medical system has made many recommendations – at both an individual and a public health level – that were ultimately detrimental, not beneficial, to health. Just think about the decades of recommendations to eat low-fat foods, and don’t even get me started on the maniacal demand for universal mRNA injections.
But perhaps the recommendation that has led to the most lives lost over time has been that we minimize or even avoid exposure to direct sunlight due to a purported risk of skin cancer. This study actually found an inverse relationship between sun exposure and skin cancer, meaning that people with less sun exposure had a higher risk of skin cancer, and it is not the only one. That same study found that the greater the daily sun exposure, the lower the risk of virtually every single cancer type studied.
Red & Near-Infrared Light Penetration
A new study reports that with direct sun exposure, light at the red/infrared end of the spectrum penetrates several inches deep into the body, and this was only slightly dampened by wearing clothes. Previously it had been thought that this wavelength only penetrates a few centimeters below the surface of the skin.
Systemic Benefits Beyond the Skin
Most surprising of all, sunlight exposure to the chest caused an improvement in visual acuity, even if no sunlight directly hit the face or eyes. Exposure to sunlight doesn’t just benefit the sun-exposed tissue. It has systemic benefits, surely far beyond what has so far been studied. The authors conclude, “This study… highlights the potentially important therapeutic value of sunlight whose longer wavelengths can reach key organs even through clothing and likely promote mitochondrial function counteracting the decline with age and disease.”
- Light & Energy
- Cancer & Oncology
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