Is your sexual prowess linked to Vitamin D and the sun’s natural rays? Dr. William Campbell Douglass II has all those answers and more. Excellent article, Dr. D. Pass it on! dmc
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How sunlight boosts your love life
I’ve been shedding light on America’s sex problems for decades…and now the mainstream is finally coming around.
Toss your dangerous penis pills, because the REAL answer to most cases of erectile dysfunction can be found in a single hormone: testosterone. And a new study suggests that you can get your own bedroom boost by simply stepping outside — because your testosterone rises and falls alongside your sun-powered vitamin D levels.
But don’t count on the sun alone to get your sex life cooking. It might give your testosterone levels a little kick, but it won’t be enough for most sexually challenged men.
There’s a simple reason for that: As you get older, your body makes less testosterone. It happens to the best of us. Getting fat will also cause your levels to go limp. And if you’re fat and old, you’re up the creek — but let me throw you a paddle: Switch to a high-protein diet rich in animal fats, and drop the carbs down to almost nothing.
The protein will give you energy. The zinc in the meat will boost your testosterone levels. And the lack of carbs will help you shed those extra pounds. Add it all up, and you’ll be back on track in the sack — but most men over 50 will need an extra hormone boost to really complete the picture.
Forget off-the-shelf testosterone supplements. Visit a doc who knows something about natural hormones. He can check your levels and top you off the right way: with a series of injections.
Finally, don’t be afraid of that big yellow thing in the sky. The media’s Chicken Little act over sunlight is out of control — I actually read an article in the online edition of the St. Petersburg Times that said you should get your vitamin D through sunlight “only with your doctor’s approval.”
I kept looking for the punchline, but it wasn’t a joke.
So consider this your permission slip — get outside and bask for a few minutes every day. Skip the sunblock and head back inside when your skin turns just a little pink.
The sun won’t poison you if you use some common sense, but your food might. Keep reading for the latest tuna trauma…
Canned tuna linked to mercury
If you’re partial to canned foods, you’re probably getting a little something extra in your tuna salad: a heaping helping of mercury.
But let’s face it — if you’re partial to canned foods, you’ve got bigger fish to fry. You’re eating your way into an early grave, and your lousy processed-food diet will kill you long before the mercury can.
The seafood-mercury scare is nothing new…but if you stick to healthy, deep-water wild-caught fish, don’t panic. You should be far more worried about the mercury in your fillings, tap water and vaccinations than anything in your seafood.
If, on the other hand, you think fish are caught with can openers, do yourself a favor and pay attention to the new study from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Researchers examined 300 cans of tuna from the top three brands, and found 55 percent had higher-than-safe levels of mercury.
Bad? Sure. But unless you’re locked in a shelter and the bombs are falling, you shouldn’t be eating anything that comes in a can, period. The processed garbage inside is bad enough, but the cans themselves are lined with a dangerous estrogen-like chemical called bisphenol-A, or BPA.
Add some mercury to the mix, and you’ve got a toxic stew that only a government regulator could love. After all, the EPA still lists canned tuna as a low-mercury choice… despite repeated studies that prove otherwise. And the FDA continues to say BPA is perfectly safe to use in can linings and plastics – despite admitting “concern” over it.
If you really want to lower your risk, there are other fish in the sea. The safest — and healthiest — include freshwater trout, flounder, salmon, catfish, whitefish and herring, along with oysters and clams. If you have to have tuna, stick to the fresh stuff caught in deep waters.
And if the catch of the day includes farmed fish, throw it back. Farmed fish often have higher levels of mercury, lead and PCBs. They’re also much lower in the essential omega-3 fatty acids that make fish so healthy to begin with.
Should you decide to skip seafood altogether, get your fins on a quality fish oil supplement and eat plenty of fresh, fatty grass-fed beef to make sure you’re getting enough of those omega-3s.
Casting a wide net,
William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.
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