Heliotherapy is sunlight therapy. In other words, it's therapeutic sunbathing. It's been around for thousands of years. The Royal Sunbathing Infirmary for Scrofula, founded in Margate, England, in 1791, was the first European seaside sanatorium to treat glandular tuberculosis with heliotherapy... Read More

"No adverse effects have been seen with supplemental vitamin D intakes up to 10,000 IU daily," according to Andrew Weil, M.D. Unfortunately, that's not true. Calcium is leached out of bone in excess of 800 IU of vitamin D a day. It's well known among laboratory researchers that daily excess... Read More

Why is vitamin D2 considered inferior? Maybe it's because the irradiation patent expired in 1945, so now the University of Wisconsin has to make its money by patenting vitamin D analogs and derivatives. University of Wisconsin biochemist Harry Steenbock (1886-1967) discovered the irradiation p... Read More

Is cactus fruit a superfood? Yes, No, Maybe. Cactus fruit falls below the expectations of Luther Burbank (1849-1926) and above the expectations of its critics. Maybe its critics don't know what time of day to eat it. Ernest Small (Top 100 Exotic Food Plants, 2012) wrote ... "Burbank h... Read More

According to "Sonoran Plant Profile: Prickly Pear," Desert Tortoise Botanicals, Oct. 8, 2012 ... "When gathering prickly pear fruits you want them to come off easy. If you ever have to yank them off the stem then they are not yet ripe enough to eat." Glenn Nice & Bill Johnson ("A Prickly Situa... Read More