In the last article I reviewed some of the documented cases that show the sun does wonders for our health. I also showed that this knowledge was common and shared equally throughout many separate branches of science not too long ago. In the recent and ancient past the sun was used medically to help cure everything from depression to mass infection. Up to 100 years ago an urban engineers’ responsibility was to design street plans with the sun and seasons in mind. Urban streets plans were optimally designed to maximize sun exposure for the citizens and the buildings in which they were housed. Architects, who were in charge of medical building design, were well aware of how important the sun and fresh air was for the protection of the staff and the healing of the sick inside the hospitals. The understanding that light brought life and darkness brought death and disease, was common knowledge up until the early 1900’s. What has happened in the last 70 years where we have moved to demonize the very force that nourishes and heals us?

With the onset of antibiotics the common knowledge, in regards to the sun, has been forgotten. Antibiotics was marketed as a miracle turn of events, similar to other supposed medical breakthroughs, but as we now know antibiotics have major side effects ranging from decreased immunity to increase cancer risk and from the genesis of new antibiotic resistant bacteria to toxic based weight gain. How we can as a society not see that science makes sales by constantly advertising that it (medicine and science) has figured out a better way than nature? Nature is faulty and in need of medical correction is the constant background music to which the sales drum is beaten. Our cholesterol is faulty (take statins), our immune system is faulty (get vaccinated), the male foreskin is faulty (get circumcised) and of course the sun is dangerous. (avoid it or cover yourself in science made conventional sunblock)

Up until 1935 the design of medical and residential buildings were based on the health of the citizens and not just monetary concerns. We have a new hospital wing today in my home town but does a bigger hospital mean the agenda set down by conventional medicine is decreasing or increasing the population’s level of health? If the health information that science and medicine is selling was correct, wouldn’t there be more healthy people and less sickness? If what is being done made people healthier, why do we need a bigger hospital? Doesn’t a bigger hospital mean more sick people? Maybe we should be reviewing what’s making the people sick in the first place and focus the monetary efforts in that direction. People aren’t sick because they don’t get enough drugs and surgeries, I can tell you that for sure. We’ve been handing the drugs and surgeries out like candy for 60 years and the people who take the most drugs and get the most surgeries are the most sick. Why are we re-enforcing such a system?

Do you think the new hospital wing has any design that makes use of sunlight to kill bacteria, decrease depression, speed recovery, aid in less sick days of the nurses, reduce cholesterol or reduce cancer? Is there an area or space in the new hospital dedicated to where a good number of patients can get sunlight and fresh air? If not, how much space has been dedicated to the storage of drugs, which fight diseases, our ancestors had little to no problems with? (osteoporosis, high blood pressure, depression, infections, skin cancer etc) Why is there a designated place to smoke outside the hospital and not a place for patients to congregate in the sun? We have only stopped using the healing power of the sun in the last 70 years? How are we doing in relation to health improvement hiding from the sun and hiding from the rest of nature as well?

More on this topic in the next article.