How Sunshine Lowers Your Blood Pressure

In a previous Blog, I discussed how certain natural medicines can block blood vessel NADPH oxidase activity, thereby promoting nitric oxide synthesis and the lowering of blood pressure.

http://grouppekurosawa.com/blog/2006/01/natural-blood-pressure-control_18.htm

Sunshine, in certain ultraviolet wavelengths, is the GREASTEST of all natural medicines. And we do not get enough of it. In fact, the lack of vitamin D3 intake in our bodies, due to a lack of ultraviolet light exposure, has reached epidemic proportions. And this could be an understatement.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/queryd.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&
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The renin-angiotensin system plays a major role in the control of blood pressure. If this system is chronically activated, hypertension or high blood pressure occurs. Vitamin D3, made in the skin by ultraviolet B light, controls the renin-angiotension system by preventing it's overactivation. Consider vitamin D3 to be a feedback control of this potentially dangerous system of blood pressure control.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/queryd.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/queryd.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&
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When vitamin D3 is made in the skin, it is transported to the liver where it is made into 25, vitamin D3. This form of vitamin D has some biological activity, but the fully active vitamin D3 molecule is 1,25 vitamin D3. The conversion of vitamin 25,VitD3 to 1,25 VitD3 is made in many tissues in the body and it is tightly controlled. It is ABSOLUTELY impossible to cause bone breakdown by exposing oneself to too much sun or to take too many inactive vitamin D3 supplements.

Ultraviolet B sunlight only exists during certain parts of the year and can be filtered out by smog and other air impurities. If you want to generate vitamin D3 in your body, consider a tanning salon or a tanning light. Or, take vitamin D3 supplements.

Vitamin D3 is a steroid hormone and is insoluble in water. We recommend the purchase of vitamin D3 capsules, 1000IU per capsule, and opening them into whole milk. This simple procedure will permit the vitamin D3 to enter the body with maximal efficiency.

Life Extension makes an excellent vitamin D3 capsule, 1000 IU each. They can be purchased from http://lifeextensionvitamins.com. We have NO financial arrangement with this copy. They are simply good people and have good prices.

Take at least 2000IU a day. If you have hypertension, take 5000 IU or more per day.

And get some sun exposure if you can.

We find it ironic how much money is spent on hypertension medicines, when simple vitamin D3 and quercetin, as a supplement or in the form of fruit, can control most forms of hypertension. Pathological hypertension is another story, and probably involves chronic stress as an initiating factor.

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Grouppe Kurosawa, Medicine in the Public Interest
(http://www.grouppekurosawa.com)