Darkness & Light & Madness

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Sadly that's an exception rather than the rule in the UK in winter!

Winter has it’s challenges. Even the sunny days in California it can be cold or windy. I feel the difference between the seasons.

 

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Winter has it’s challenges. Even the sunny days in California it can be cold or windy. I feel the difference between the seasons.

How long does winter last in California? In my mind I picture it as a similar climate to the Canary Islands.

 

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How long does winter last in California? In my mind I picture it as a similar climate to the Canary Islands.

We get sun the majority of days, but there is more dark time than in the summer. The nights get cold too in the winter, even freezing in Southern California. It snowed real good in early Spring of this year. Here is my backyard, and I live about 45 minutes from the beach.

 

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We get sun the majority of days, but there is more dark time than in the summer. The nights get cold too in the winter, even freezing in Southern California. It snowed real good in early Spring of this year. Here is my backyard, and I live about 45 minutes from the beach.

Cool pics! I suppose I can't really complain seeing as we are on the same latitude as Canada...they know about cold!

Roll on summer....

 

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Cool pics! I suppose I can't really complain seeing as we are on the same latitude as Canada...they know about cold!

Roll on summer....

Your pic is beautiful too!

 

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Robin Williams autopsy revealed he had about 40% loss of dopamine neurons and almost no neurons were free of Lewy bodies throughout his entire brain.

The terrorist inside my husband's brain by Susan Schneider Williams I am writing to share a story with you, specifically for you. My hope is that it will help you understand your patients along with their spouses and caregivers a little more. And as for the research you do, perhaps this will...

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“As expected, those patients with phobias or anxieties about leaving safe spaces were strongly linked to much lower mobility and a much smaller activity area. Yet no other symptoms of mental health issues appeared to have the same effect on a patient's daily movements.


In contrast, higher levels of emotional wellbeing and, to a lesser extent, psychological flexibility were consistently associated with more movement and a greater variety of movement.


"Our results suggest that activity alone is not enough to reduce symptoms of mental disorders, but can at least improve subjective wellbeing," explained clinical and health psychologist Andrew Gloster from the University of Basel at the time.”

There's One Simple Aspect of Everyday Life Linked to Better Wellbeing, Study Finds

A variety in everyday movements is linked to better wellbeing, according to a small study of psychiatric patients.

www.sciencealert.com

 

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“While foods and supplements may be helpful, UV light is the way that our bodies naturally produce our own vitamin D. UV light is divided into three distinct ranges of wavelengths, called bands, based on the properties of each band. Only one of these bands, UVB with a wavelength of 280-315 nm, actually stimulates the production of vitamin D.

UVB light is produced naturally by the sun, but much of this light is absorbed by the atmosphere, with about 5% of it actually reaching the surface of the earth. More UVB light from the sun is available when the sun is directly overhead, as the light has to travel through less of the atmosphere. UVB light is also in greater abundance during the summer months, when the sun is more directly overhead and is present for longer during the day.

An excellent app that can be used to help you know when the sun is strong enough to make Vitamin D is called DMinder.”

Red Light Therapy and Vitamin D? | Mito Red Light

Up your body's vitamin D production. Here, our CEO Scott Chaverri shares his experience with red light therapy, sun exposure, and increased vitamin D levels.

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“A prior study by the same authors demonstrated that vitamin D deficiency in childhood can reliably cause schizophrenia later on. So, this implies that it is dopamine deficiency (and this serotonin excess) that drives schizophrenia, which directly contradicts the established hypothesis/dogma. The exact same situation is now becoming more widely accepted to be the case with serotonin and depression - i.e. high, now low, serotonin drives depression. But wait, it gets better. Not only do we now have evidence that simple, OTC and cheap substance such as vitamin D can prevent/treat psychotic states such as schizophrenia, we also have the plausible mechanism of action, and once again it implicates serotonin as the cause of this pathology. Namely, vitamin D is known to inhibit the enzyme tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH), which is responsible for the synthesis of serotonin. In other words, vitamin D is both a serotonin synthesis inhibitor and dopamine synthesis stimulant (as the study below demonstrated). This effect has remarkably broad applicability spanning not just mental disorders but virtually all diseases known to medicine. No wonder there are studies out there demonstrating beneficial effects from vitamin D on virtually all chronic, and acute conditions, including ones related to physical injury/trauma.”

Vitamin D deficiency and low, not high, dopamine drive schizophrenia

One of the most persistent medical myths can be found in psychiatry. More specifically, in the category of psychotic mental disorders. Schizophrenia is perhaps the most widely studied representative of such conditions and the prevailing dogma/hypothesis about schizophrenia (and other psychotic...

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@lionsmane311 said this interesting thing in his thread, linked below…

“I remember Haidut quoting Ray Peat saying the brains of schizophrenics is too tired to even develop cancer.”

My Goal Is to Cure Auditory Hallucinations

I've had auditory hallucinations for a little over a year and a half. They are absolutely disruptive to my peace of mind. Nobody should have to go through this and we should have had the answers by now. At least better medication and methods to deal with it. I used to have delusions and...

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Q: Is sunlight still beneficial if you use a safe sun blocker?

“The popular chemical sun blockers are meant to stop the ultraviolet rays. If they can do that, without increasing the risk of
melanoma, then they are very beneficial, because this will allow you to get a long exposure to direct sunlight, which penetrates deeply and has an anti-stress effect. But so far, there is no research that shows any of the chemical ultraviolet blockers is safe.”
-Ray Peat

https://expulsia.com/health/peat-index/sunlight-using-it-to-enhance-life.pdf

 

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what planet is this? where is this?

 

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what planet is this? where is this?

That is me in my world Mike! I am grounding.

 

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