SEASONAL HEALING and the WINTER SOLSTICE

kind2creatures · � #1 � 12-21-2009, 09:37 AM

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Seasonal Healing and the Winter Solstice

In the northern hemisphere, the Winter solstice is the day of the
year (this year it is December 21) when the Sun is farthest south.
The winter solstice marks the first day of the winter season. The
declination of the Sun on the (northern) winter solstice is known as
the tropic of Capricorn (-23� 27').

Winter is the time for rest and to replenish. As an expression in nature, The
Winter Solstice is the time to reflect on the power of our spiritual beliefs and
the belief in the power of ourselves! As we look forward to the beginning of a
New Year, we look at ways to resolve issues and create resolutions that will
manifest change for the better, in ourselves.

Winter is the time to take a good look at our health and our
lifestyle. Start by looking at the life around you. Are you living in
chaos? Is your home in a shambles? Is there clutter everywhere? You
may want to consider starting with a good packing and storing
session. Feng Shui, the ancient art of placement, can help you to
find order in your life.

The temple, our physical bodies, are the only thing we have to carry
the soul. When our physical bodies are not in proper working order,
everything around us ultimately suffers. Our good health is all we
have that stands between us and the aging process. The longer you
keep your physical body in optimum health, the longer you have your
temple to keep your soul on this plane. Detoxification is the best
way to keep the body at its most ultimate working level.

By enjoying a healthy, nutritional diet, getting good quality sleep
and moderate exercise this can keep our physical form at it's best,
always. Take the opportunities that are offered. Make the
opportunities that are not. Find your priorities of life and give
them merit. This is the best season to do this. This is the time when
we have the greatest energy to utilize the power we are given!

Celebrations of the Winter Solstice

The Winter Solstice is the time of the longest night and the shortest
day. As the darkness peaks the Solstice is a turning point. This is
the point of the highest Yin (cooling) energy as the nights grow
shorter and the days grow longer into Yang (warming) energy. The
cycle of dark wanes as the power of the Sun waxes.

Customs most associated with the Winter Solstice are festivals such
as Chinese New Year, St Lucy's Day, Saturnalia, the birth of the
Christ child, Hanukkah, New Years and the Twelfth Night. Stories all
deriving from the conflict between dark and light.

Create a special winter solstice ritual to usher in the change of the
season and reflect what this means to you.

Andrew Pacholyk, MS, L.Ac.
https://www.peacefulmind.com/winter.htm

Ted_Hutchinson · � #2 � 12-21-2009, 10:10 AM

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In the northern hemisphere, the Winter solstice is the day of the year (this year it is December 21) when the Sun is farthest south.
The winter solstice marks the first day of the winter season......and reflect what this means to you.

For me this means its the LOW POINT IN 25(OH)D status.

We don't have to suffer winter depression, fatigue or low immune status anymore, nor are we obliged to fly South for a tropical winter sunshine holiday.
For those who have been keeping their 25(OH)D high and stable with 5000iu/daily D3
the message is keep it up.
For those who haven't then it's about time you caught up with the most recent science
and took one of these daily for the next 3months
Then check with a Grassrootshealth D Action 25(OH)D test
to ensure your level is MORE THAN 55ng/ml.
Only reduce the daily intake if your level then exceeds 70ng/ml.
In which case you can use up the pack by taking one EVERY OTHER DAY averaging 5000iu/d.

Arrowwind09 · � #3 � 12-22-2009, 10:36 AM

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We don't have to suffer winter depression, fatigue or low immune status anymore, nor are we obliged to fly South for a tropical winter sunshine holiday.
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Now am I going to have to think up another reason to head to Mexico in two weeks? These always worked so well!

jfh · � #4 � 12-22-2009, 11:38 AM

Ted, you introduced a D3 soft gel 10,000IU. I absolutely believe in soft gel or liquid. I have the same brand in 5000IU. I'm taking 2 daily; but one in the morning and one in the afternoon would be better than one large one each day. Am I right? I do this with herbs and vitC, thinking that I would be better saturated, if I spread it out.

Ted_Hutchinson · � #5 � 12-22-2009, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by jfh

Ted, you introduced a D3 soft gel 10,000IU. I absolutely believe in soft gel or liquid. I have the same brand in 5000IU. I'm taking 2 daily; but one in the morning and one in the afternoon would be better than one large one each day. Am I right? I do this with herbs and vitC, thinking that I would be better saturated, if I spread it out.

To be honest there is no evidence to support the idea of spreading D3 intake over the day.
It's fat soluble, has a half life measured in weeks and frankly, apart from pregnant and breastfeeding women it makes very little difference if the dose is daily weekly fortnightly or monthly providing the sum total is adequate to keep levels in the upper 50's lower 70's ng/ml 137.56nmol/l ~175nmol/l.

Taylor, Hollis and Wagner have done the work with Vitamin D in pregnancy and lactation and they insist that DAILY supplemenation for pregnant and nursing mothers is NECESSARY to ensure the baby gets a steady even supply. Do be aware of the Following research paper and keep levels HIGH BUT STABLE. Hollis has shown that 6400iu/daily is required during pregnancy and lactation to ensure breast milk if vitamin D replete and baby is born with Sufficient vitamin d in place to absorb calcium optimally. But there is other work showing from Finland associating higher levels of Vitamin D with breast cancer incidence. (it matches the Finnish Research on High Vitamin D prostate cancer incidence) Finland is way north. People in Finland with high vitamin d tend to have HUGE swings of status from summer to winter and it is the disequilibrium that arises during rapid increases and decreases in 25(OH)D status that is the likely cause.

I've put a copy of Vieth's paper online here because it is so important that people understand the idea of keeping your levels BOTH HIGH AND STABLE. If you are going to fly South for the Winter Sun then supplement before you go and on the return home but not while you are in the sun. Try and spread the change over a longer period and even out the highs/lows.

I prefer daily supplementing because I've read
How to Optimize Vitamin D Supplementation to Prevent Cancer, Based on Cellular Adaptation and Hydroxylase Enzymology and want to keep my levels both high and stable and avoid the necessity for my immune function to have to retune itself to rebalance the proliferative/antiproliferative forces.

Having just learnt that Calcidiol 25(OH)D is not just a prohormone but is now regarded as an active hormone in it's own right and one which works collaberatively with 1.25 Calcitriol it seems more important than ever not be be short of this important hormone. Concentrations below 40ng/ml 100nmol/l were shown not to have any measurable effect on cancer cells so if cancer prevention or treatment is what we are after then HIGHER LEVELS are more likely to have that effect.

Vitamin C on the other hand is WATER SOLUBLE. Once it's absorbed into the body it's half life is measured in minutes. Only ever buy small dose TIME RELEASE SUSTAINED RELEASE TYPES. 1 x 500mg vitamin C time release every 8hrs is better than 1 x 1.5mg vitamin c not time release once daily, even better would be 6 x 250mg every 4hrs through day/night.

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