Transcript
Zac Cormier – 2:02 PM
All right. Thank you guys for saying hi. It’s good to see you guys saying so many nice things. You guys are going to make me blush. We’ll give it like one more minute. Actually, I’ll just get started on the introduction kind of stuff. Then we’ll kind of get into the, you know, the meat and potatoes.
Zac Cormier – 2:02 PM
Of everything. Obviously, today’s big topic is stop wearing sunscreens, making you sick. So, we’re going to be talking all about why we want to stop using sunscreen and kind of everything else behind that. Real quick before we start, for anybody that doesn’t know me, I am, my name is Zach. I’m an acupuncturist and a holistic health coach. I definitely specialize in the more complex chronic type diseases.
Zac Cormier – 2:03 PM
Meridiogram is an app that I developed in order to help people with their really challenging chronic diseases. And the webinars here are to share a lot of the information, the unique perspective that I have about medicine, and it’s helped a lot of people overcome a lot of their health challenges, really crazy chronic stuff that a lot of our modern chronic diseases are all about today. So, diabetes, AFib.
Zac Cormier – 2:03 PM
Obesity, you name it, it’s something that I specialize in and like to help people through. I like to help people get off all their prescriptions, their supplements, you name it. I feel like our bodies have the power to heal, we just need to find out the root causes for why it’s not healing on its own. And when we can do that, it is an absolute healing machine and we can be super energized and live the life that we want to live.
Zac Cormier – 2:03 PM
And I’m just like you guys, I found a bunch of cool information and I want to share it with you guys, I think it’s so cool and it’s really transformed my life and the life of a lot of friends and family. So I hope you guys enjoy all this fun and funky information. Moving forward, this is the first Meridiogram webinar, it’s free for absolutely everybody. Even the live recording afterward is going to be free, so you’ll be able to share it with friends or family, for anybody you think.
Zac Cormier – 2:04 PM
that could benefit from it. After this one, they will only be available through a Meridiogram subscription. You’ll be able to tune in every month and even request any specific topics that you’d like to hear about. They could be specific to your health challenges or somebody that you know, or just something that you’re interested in too. Without further ado, I think there’s still a couple people joining.
Zac Cormier – 2:04 PM
I’m going to go ahead and get started just to make sure we have enough time to cover everything because I want to make sure we have enough time for some questions at the end. Usually, people have quite a few questions. Along the way, if you do have a question and you are worried that you might forget it, at the bottom right, there’s actually a little tab that says Q&A. You can actually type your questions in there. Feel free to do it along the way, that way you don’t forget. At the end, I’ll just kind of go through them.
Zac Cormier – 2:05 PM
Just kind of go down the list and answer them. Keep in mind, though, I might also answer your questions along the way as I’m talking. I also suggest that you probably get like a notepad or something just to take notes. Some of this stuff can be pretty different than a lot of the mainstream stuff you’ve heard. You might just want to remember specific things. Again, I hope you enjoy it. We’ll get started talking about why we don’t want to use sunscreen now.
Zac Cormier – 2:05 PM
Of course, sunscreen is full of all kinds of chemicals and toxic stuff, and that’s usually what people think I’m talking about when I say don’t wear sunscreen.
Zac Cormier – 2:06 PM
And that’s part of it for sure. Our skin is highly absorbent and readily soaks in all kinds of crap that we don’t want inside of us. But really the main reason is exactly why sunscreen or sunblock is what it’s called, is it blocks the sun. Right here on the slide, it says sunscreens with SPF as low as 8 block 95% of UVB light. SPF stands for sun protection factor.
Zac Cormier – 2:06 PM
It is a measure for how much UVB light is blocked from getting to your skin. And as we go throughout our webinar today, you’ll start realizing why this UVB light specifically is so important. One thing to remember about light or about color in general is that light is information. So the second part here is anything that disconnects your skin, eyes, and gut from sunlight is harmful is the idea that it’s cutting off useful information that your body needs. So when we apply things like sunscreen or lotion or makeup or anything that blocks our skin in the sun, our skin is going to suffer. And therefore, since it acts like a solar panel for the rest of our body, all of our internal organs will suffer as well. Our eyes disconnected from the sun is wearing something like sunglasses. It’s again, we need the sun and it’s light to provide useful information.
Zac Cormier – 2:07 PM
For just about every body process that we have. And that’s why I said this last part here is there are no healthy sunscreens because the idea of blocking the sun out at all is not going to be useful. That’s going to be something detrimental to your health, something that we don’t want to do. So, like I said, light is information for those of you that haven’t seen the electromagnetic spectrum is basically about light. It’s about a bunch of colors where our human eyes, we see visible light. So right here that shows violet, visible and red light. That’s the colors we see. But there’s also all kinds of light that we can’t see. That’s going to be our UV light and our infrared light. So UV light is what, you know, dermatologists say that we want to stay out of UV light. And that’s what causes cancer, that’s what causes all kinds of skin issues.
Zac Cormier – 2:08 PM
And we can’t see it, but it’s also known for things like creating vitamin D. Even dermatologists will say UV light is what makes vitamin D. Certain animals can see UV light, mosquitoes can see UV light, birds can see UV light, but we can’t. So it’s very real and has a very powerful effect on nature and life in general, even if we can’t see it. And on the other side of the visible light spectrum less energetic light is going to be infrared light. Infrared light is, again, we can’t see it, but we can actually feel it. Heat is a form of infrared light where we can feel it, but not necessarily see it. So again, certain things like there’s thermal vision cameras where you can actually see infrared light. So we do have the technology to see those kind of things. But the idea is all these different colors. Anything in nature…
Zac Cormier – 2:09 PM
There’s no randomness in why something is a specific color. There’s a reason why blood is red. There’s a reason why plants are mostly green. And we’ll actually go over that later, because that’s actually important to understand for why, you know, how we create health with our connection to the sun and to light in general. So our next one here. The sun is the projector and life is the movie. Like I said, light is information. A good example of understanding this is when you go to the movies and you’re sitting there and you’re watching this movie, the projector is behind you and there’s a beam of light that is shooting from that projector onto the screen. So you actually see this movie. And if you looked up at the beam of light, you can’t see the movie, but the information for the movie is in there. It only becomes apparent when you look at the screen.
Zac Cormier – 2:09 PM
The same idea goes for the sun. It’s the sun, it’s shining, the beams come down to earth, but kind of life unfolds only as the light hits different things. It hits people, it hits plants, it hits animals. We can see that our entire food web is dependent on light. There would be no life on earth if we didn’t have plants actually being able to grow and actually create the oxygen we have on earth and the food.
Zac Cormier – 2:10 PM
The food that they provide to actually nourish animals and kind of create that cycle of life. And not only that, but it’s also important to understand how light is very specific. That’s why I put a picture of oranges here. For anybody that knows anything about oranges is that they grow only close to the equator.
Zac Cormier – 2:10 PM
Light cycles and light intensity of light. At the equator, light is way more intense. It provides different information. Versus as you get further away from the equator, it gets much colder and there’s generally less life. Plants don’t grow as much. And that’s an example of why they’re so specific. Oranges themselves are very sensitive to changes in temperature and light. So they won’t grow if you have just slight changes in light.
Zac Cormier – 2:11 PM
As orange farmers will tell you, you want a lot of sunlight, as much as you can during the day, on them. So you always want them on something where they can face south and get a lot of sunshine. Otherwise they won’t grow. Us humans, we’re exactly the same. We need certain frequencies of light in order to operate all kinds of different machinery within our body. And whenever we don’t get those frequencies of light, that’s when things start to follow.
Zac Cormier – 2:11 PM
And today we’re going to go over some pretty big ones. I’m going to go over kind of three main indicators, like key indicators that are going to determine your overall health. And we’ll get into that in a little bit. And definitely another thing people usually bring up is when I start talking about things like sunscreen or exposing yourself to UV light, is that dermatologists say the exact opposite.
Zac Cormier – 2:12 PM
Doctors say the exact opposite. But as we go through, we’ll kind of explain why that is. And I’ll say, kind of explain why they may not be giving you the best information from what I’ve come to understand from asking people way smarter than me and reading a lot and just being generally a nerd is that you just kind of learn certain mechanisms behind things and start to question and fact check people. And then kind of the truth starts.
Zac Cormier – 2:12 PM
So spell out about kind of what you need to know as we go through this as well. This webinar, you’ll start to realize that there are I’m not quoting any studies. In my opinion, studies don’t hold a lot of weight. They may point to certain evidence in a right in a certain direction. But when you fact check a lot of studies, they fail to control for a lot of things. One example being that I keep talking about sunlight is studies are almost never done under full-spectrum sunlight. They’re always done in a lab under artificial light. As soon as you do that, you’re skewing all of your information because life acts differently under different colors of light and intensities of light. So it’s important to pay attention to that when you’re looking over studies. Take studies with a grain of salt. It’s not that they’re bad. They definitely point us in the right direction, but you can’t take them as a truth.
Zac Cormier – 2:13 PM
So a little bit more about why it is that dermatologists kind of insist that the sun is bad for you, which will become even more clear, like I said, as we go through this webinar, is that is essentially trying to create customers and products and basically make money. If you follow the money, you’ll kind of see kind of the incentive behind why they’re going to take certain actions. Unfortunately, when I’m telling you certain things, you know, about dermatologists generally the tools they have in their tool belt are going to be things like creams or procedures or tools or gizmos or gadgets or selling you sessions of some sort. All those things cost money and create products essentially. But, you know, if, you know, we ask the question of, well, if, you know, the sun is going to be creating a lot of this health stuff for us, something doesn’t add up.
Zac Cormier – 2:14 PM
You’d be absolutely right. Something doesn’t add up. Dermatologists are saying, you know, sun is causing damage. But as we, you know, spend more time inside, we spend more on technology. We spend more time with technology. Skin diseases keep to go, keep going up. They’re on the rise. They keep raising. So if the sun is the problem, but we’re spending less time in it, you’re right. That doesn’t add up. And we’ll go over exactly why.
Zac Cormier – 2:14 PM
So we’re getting to the juicy stuff now, like I said before, three key indicators for determining overall health. They are vitamin D, melanin, and water. Vitamin D is connected to just about every chronic disease you can have. It’s a super important indicator. It’s if somebody has some sort of significant chronic disease, I can bet that their vitamin D is going to be low. That one is usually not as surprising.
Zac Cormier – 2:15 PM
Melanin, people are pretty shocked about. People know melanin as what gives the skin pigment, just like the picture I put here. There’s a more pigmented hand and a less pigmented hand. The story of melanin will likely blow your mind, and it is a very cool story, so I’m excited to share this with you a little bit later. As far as water goes, water, we’re talking about the hydration within your body. I have a lot of clients that come in to see me saying, oh, I don’t have a problem with water, I drink a gallon of water a day. You know, but they are obviously severely dehydrated. They have their doctor telling them they’re dehydrated. All kinds of tests show within their body that they are not holding on to water within their cells, and we’ll go over exactly why that is, and why looking at the water content within someone’s cells is critical to understanding why they have certain diseases that develop, as well as how that actually influences certain genetic expressions that express disease, versus not selecting for those and actually selecting genes that select for health instead, and it is related to water. So it’s pretty cool. So we’ll kind of go through all three of them. We’ll start out with vitamin D. And for vitamin D.
Zac Cormier – 2:16 PM
What’s kind of important to understand is kind of the mechanism for how it’s made. And once you understand how vitamin D is made, you kind of see how sunscreen actually jams that process and how you actually won’t make vitamin D. So let me move on here. I skipped one over. Hold on one second. There we go. All right. So this is the process and how our body makes vitamin D.
Zac Cormier – 2:16 PM
It starts in your liver. Your liver produces cholesterol and actually produces LDL cholesterol. And many people say LDL, that’s the bad one. And that is the modern medical paradigm narrative is that LDL is the bad cholesterol. In reality, it is not the bad cholesterol. LDL cholesterol acts as a transporter.
Zac Cormier – 2:17 PM
Essentially transporting things around the body. And so the process of vitamin D specifically is that your liver produces this LDL cholesterol and it goes to your skin. Then it goes in your skin and kind of hangs out in there. There’s certain these layers of keratin which is basically kind of like a thick matrix that holds skin together. And cholesterol likes to wedge itself in and gets nice and comfy as it waits for UV sunlight. Essentially a number three to when you have that UV UVB sunlight specifically hit that cholesterol. That’s when it starts changing forms. A couple different things happen when you have that UVB sunlight hit cholesterol. The first thing is it actually sulfates cholesterol. That meaning that it becomes a more active form of cholesterol to do more work within your body and makes it not more useful but a different kind of use. It also turns some of that cholesterol into pre-d3. Then it goes on to actually create something called LDL sterol. It goes on to create vitamin D3 and it actually has a bunch of different forms of vitamin D which is also important to understand. Which we’ll get into why that’s so important a little bit later.
Zac Cormier – 2:18 PM
LDL sterol is what is responsible for turning on a bunch of your immune system genes within your skin. So something like when you have psoriasis, an autoimmune skin condition, that is when you’re not having those specific healthy genes get selected. That is going to be a lack of that LDL sterol. And like I just told you, it requires UVB sunlight specifically to activate that. The UVB sunlight is sunlight that isn’t available year-round.
Zac Cormier – 2:18 PM
It’s not available year-round for everybody, which is why when you move further north, there is the idea that, yeah, we have certain seasonal depression and we have all kinds of diseases actually get worse in the winter is actually because we have less UVB sunlight. And this is why all chronic diseases, again, tied to vitamin D, is if you tested anybody’s vitamin D levels in these scenarios, they’re going to be deficient not only in, you know, they’re all forms of vitamin D, the pre-vitamin D3, D3, sulfated D3, LDL sterile, all these things, it’s, the list goes on to kind of deficiencies it creates when you can’t transfer that cholesterol into vitamin D, which I put the dotted line right there showing where sunscreen just jams this process. This is where the traffic starts is obviously if you put that sunscreen on the skin, like I said earlier, sunscreen as low as SPF 8 blocks 95% of UVB light, meaning that you’re severely shunting your ability to actually turn cholesterol into vitamin D.
So not only does that mean you have no vitamin D and you have no LDL sterile to activate your immune system, that also means that cholesterol actually just keeps hanging out. Your liver keeps creating cholesterol, LDL cholesterol that circulates around your body and when it’s not transformed into the useful things it needs because of the lack of UVB sunlight, essentially that means you have high cholesterol. That is part of the high cholesterol story right there. And that’s why LDL cholesterol gets a bad name. When it’s trying to transport, but it can’t transport because it’s not able to offload what it has, it actually just degrades and turns into the actually bad LDL cholesterol which is called SD-LDL cholesterol.
Zac Cormier – 2:20 PM
And that is the stuff that causes damage. That’s what gums up the arteries and creates plaques and things like that. So obviously it’s a little bit different than probably what you’ve heard as kind of the mainstream paradigm. Again, I’m just sharing the information and I want you to fact-check me. These are things that are available to just Google and look up the mechanisms and the actions behind these things. So when your doctor does something like recommend a statin, before saying anything about I haven’t been really getting sunlight, why wouldn’t I do that first? Once you kind of know better and know how this is, you’re able to kind of navigate your medical decisions better, ask better questions, and really get to the bottom of it. So that way you can avoid getting on certain prescription drugs or supplements, or kind of just gizmos or gadgets or tools that you have to pay for.
Zac Cormier – 2:21 PM
A lot of times the answers to our medical questions or issues are challenges are actually right under our nose. It’s looking at the root causes for, you know, why these things happen. So if it’s as simple as you’re just not getting sunlight to make vitamin D3 and actually lower your cholesterol levels, that’s pretty straightforward and pretty easy. I’m telling you, go take a beach vacation. That’s an awesome prescription. I’ll happily take that. Getting back to how vitamin D is made, after a few more minutes of receiving UVB on your skin as you, you know, your body’s creating pre-vitamin D3, LDL sterile, those things, all the other kinds of vitamin D3, there’s a process of it getting sulfated, like I mentioned earlier. And then lastly, the sulfated vitamin D3 travels from your skin and actually goes to your liver and kidney where it is hydroxylated, which essentially means it turns it into the active form of vitamin D. That is the form that is super important.
Zac Cormier – 2:22 PM
It’s the end of the line, but it does all the very useful things that we need it to. While some of the forms of vitamin D that go before that, such as just regular vitamin D3, is involved in regulating how our body uses calcium. And sulfated vitamin D3, activated vitamin D3, they essentially, they don’t deal with calcium regulation. That’s why it’s really important.
Zac Cormier – 2:22 PM
It’s important that we have all these different forms of vitamin D to perform all these tasks. And the only way that that happens is when we are able to get the frequencies of sunlight to actually create all these forms. And this is also an important reason why vitamin D supplements fail. When you take a vitamin D supplement, you are just taking a very one specific form of vitamin D.
Zac Cormier – 2:23 PM
You’re either taking vitamin D2, you’re taking pre-vitamin D3, you’re taking vitamin D3, sulfated vitamin D3, you know, and it’s no one’s on eight different vitamin D’s and that’s essentially what you would have to do. But even then that wouldn’t work because again, frequencies of sunlight determine the action of specific vitamins and minerals. So that’s where one of the reasons why vitamin D fails.
Zac Cormier – 2:23 PM
Alrighty, so moving forward here, oh lastly about vitamin D before I forget, I did want to mention this, is that many people ask, well what are healthy vitamin D levels? Anything under 30 is very deficient, that’s not good. So if you have some labs you can take a look at, you can take a look if it’s under 30, you need to do some work and get in some sunlight, 50 is absolute minimum, that’s baseline.
Zac Cormier – 2:24 PM
Really, 70 is good, that’s where you want to be at. Part of the story that kind of doesn’t make sense as well, with dermatology again, is they say that UV light essentially causes skin cancer, and they also say in the same breath that UV light will make vitamin D, but then kind of the question to them is, everybody with skin cancer should have skyrocketed vitamin D levels, which is never true. People with skin cancer always have rock bottom vitamin D levels. So again, just questions that you want to ask yourself, dermatologists, doctors, and get to the bottom of it and find the truth for yourself. Ask people questions and fact check people. So that is vitamin D, that’s kind of the story that I wanted to share with you today. I hope you found it helpful.
Zac Cormier – 2:24 PM
If you are behind that and why it’s so important, how it’s made, and you can see clearly how sunscreen is going to block you from creating this super essential hormone slash vitamin. So our next one is actually we’re going to kind of skip over melanin for a second. We’re going to talk about water. So when it comes to water, it’s the idea is that our body uses light to make water.
Zac Cormier – 2:25 PM
And that’s the primary way we actually get hydrated. I mentioned earlier, I have people that come in and they say, I drank a bunch of water, yet I’m still really dehydrated. How does that work? Essentially, you’re not getting the right amount of light. So if you take a look at bottom left of this slide, we have a picture of both human blood hemoglobin as well as plant chlorophyll. The only difference you’ll see between the two, they look exactly the same other than what’s in the very middle. You might need to zoom in on it.
Zac Cormier – 2:25 PM
The blood, the hemoglobin, has Fe, which is iron, and the chlorophyll in the middle has Mg, which is magnesium. Other than that, the only difference is one is red and one is green, which I was talking about earlier. There’s very specific reasons one is red and one is green. If you look at the two graphs to the right of the chlorophyll and the hemoglobin, the left one is showing that iron absorbs red light.
Zac Cormier – 2:26 PM
Iron also emits or fluoresces red light, and that’s why blood is the color red, because of the iron that it contains within it. That’s why iron-deficient blood looks a lot different, looks a lot less red. And then the graph over that shows where it is that chlorophyll is absorbing light and also fluorescing. So the reason why they actually emit those colors of light is super important.
Zac Cormier – 2:26 PM
Just kind of moving on to how it is exactly that our body makes water from light is we can see this in the photosynthesis equation. In this equation, we learn in fifth grade that plants are able to take in the carbon dioxide that we breathe out. They drink up water through their roots from the soil, and sunlight goes into their chlorophyll and actually creates the sugar for energy that they use, as well as just the plant itself. The fruits it creates are all made of the same C6H12O6. Those are atoms. That’s carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. The leaves of a plant, the stem of a plant, the fruit, they’re all made of atoms just like that. And that’s what we eat, essentially. When you eat an orange, you’re eating fructose, which is actually the same equation as glucose. It’s carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. That’s what you’re eating.
Zac Cormier – 2:27 PM
As well as when you actually go through that photosynthesis process. Plants of course make the oxygen that we breathe in. If they didn’t do that, we wouldn’t make it very long. The cool part about this equation that you don’t get taught in fifth grade is the equation actually goes the opposite direction for humans. You just replace the chlorophyll in the middle with hemoglobin. And so putting the arrow the other way means that we breathe in oxygen from the plants, we eat different foods like the oranges, get our C6H12O6, and right in the middle it shows sunlight right there. Without sunlight hitting the hemoglobin, hemoglobin is something called a chromophore, just like chlorophyll. A chromophore is any kind of pigment that is there to absorb light.
Zac Cormier – 2:28 PM
And when that hemoglobin actually captures light, specifically red light, that’s why it’s red, I showed you here, it absorbs primarily red light and emits red light. That’s really important to the story because it brings that red light into our cells, into where we have mitochondria, which are known to be the energy creators within our cells. In those mitochondria, they have little tiny proteins that require different colors of light. The fourth protein in there has four different, very specific wavelengths of red light that it needs. It gets that red light by being transported by hemoglobin.” So that is how, when we look at our photosynthesis equation again, how we’re able to actually create water and carbon dioxide from that. The carbon dioxide is what we breathe out and give back to the plants, but we create that water inside of our cells. Just like I said, it delivers the red light to the mitochondria within the cell. That means it’s creating water within a cell, it’s hydrating itself. So the more sunlight you get, it actually hydrates you.
Zac Cormier – 2:29 PM
And this is exactly the same mechanism for why sunlight is not responsible for, essentially, wrinkles, dehydration, and aging. As we age and actually lose water, when we’re babies we’re 80% water, when we’re 65, 75, we’re 55% water. The unhealthier you are, the lower water content is available within your cells, which shows us right here that the more sunlight we can get, the more water we can get.
Zac Cormier – 2:29 PM
The more water we can create inside, it has nothing to do with drinking the water, necessarily, not saying don’t drink water, it’s just how we actually hydrate is mostly dependent on the light that we receive. And that’s kind of the big takeaway here. This also answers the question of, you know, why it is that everyone’s taking a bunch of magnesium and everyone’s so magnesium deficient. I’ve seen people on huge doses of magnesium, they’re absolutely crazy.
Zac Cormier – 2:30 PM
Yet they’re still magnesium deficient. Why that is, is because magnesium is hydrophilic. That means that magnesium needs water and loves water. It goes to wherever water is. So if you’re trying to get magnesium inside your cell to do work and it doesn’t have enough water in it, that means magnesium doesn’t get in there to actually do its job. So you can take these massive doses, but you’re going to flush out magnesium anyway. Doesn’t matter how much you do take.
Zac Cormier – 2:30 PM
Tying it over to our vitamin D story as well, is magnesium is actually a cofactor that’s involved in turning cholesterol into vitamin D in the activated form of vitamin D. So if you don’t have water within your cells to actually hold on to magnesium to help the vitamin D process, you know, none of the things happen. It starts to unfold the story about how everything is so interconnected and interweave. Nothing’s linear at all.
Zac Cormier – 2:30 PM
You start to see how even if you, you can’t just ignore any specific one part of the process. That’s why just taking magnesium is never going to be enough. If you don’t have water, if you don’t have the sunlight to change cholesterol into vitamin D, it’s not enough to kind of half-ass everything. You got to kind of commit to doing one thing. As soon as you receive any wrong signal, the mechanisms completely kind of fall apart. And it kind of all goes back to how tied to nature are you?
Zac Cormier – 2:31 PM
And how disconnected are you from living indoors? And there’s a lot of different ways, especially when we’re away from sunlight is a huge one, which is kind of the main thing today. So when you’re wearing sunscreen and you’re not able to get sunlight in, you’re not able to reverse that photosynthesis and actually create water within your cells. And that’s how we see when aging and disease happens when we have our deficient water. And like I mentioned earlier, during the introduction, the amount of water within our cells is actually a big factor in genetic expression. It’s something called heteroplasmy rate. Heteroplasmy rate determines how likely a gene is going to be selected, specifically a pathological one, meaning a negative gene expression, selecting for a disease. Where someone says something like, I have the breast cancer gene, just because you have a gene doesn’t mean it’s going to get selected. It’s kind of like a library. You don’t have to check out the books just because they’re in the library.
Zac Cormier – 2:32 PM
But as soon as you have a really high heteroplasmy rate, meaning that your cells are not hydrated, that’s when those genetics start getting expressed. And actually reverse the other way. If you start hydrating your cells, you can actually reverse that expression and actually regenerate and heal yourself from some pretty crazy diseases. So that is the water story. It is pretty cool. I absolutely love that one. There’s a lot more to water.
Zac Cormier – 2:32 PM
For everything I’m saying, just like I said, the story is not linear. It’s like a big spiderweb. You can pick any topic and it goes just absolutely every direction with how everything is so intertwined within our physiology. To where we’re talking about specifically vitamin D, you know, we can, you know, relate to certain diseases. Let me look, I had a, oh yeah, here we go. I had a list of vitamin D related diseases here. And if you kind of take a look, read through it, you realize it’s absolutely everything. And we are kind of talking about a very broad sense today where we’re saying three main key indicators for health. So it’s covering everything, but I understand everyone has their specific health challenges. So you know, people will say, well, how does my osteoporosis relate to light and things like that? But specifically for osteoporosis, it’s, you’re going to have low vitamin D levels. You’re going to have low hydration.
Zac Cormier – 2:34 PM
So we’ll go out to melanin and this one, I don’t want to, I don’t want to pick favorites, but this one might be my favorite. Melanin is really cool. So melanin, the best indicator for health and longevity. Most people know it as it just gives your skin pigment. It does that for sure. And that’s why I had the guy on the right here. He has a lot of pigment in his skin. He also has all kinds of freckles going on. He has a lot of different Melanins in his, the skin on his face. Melanin has a bunch of different forms to it. There’s melanin that specifically just pigments skin. There’s melanin that specifically pigments our eyes, pigments our hair, and you know, actually pigments all of our internal organs. Wherever you find melanin in the body, it is really important that that organ gets a lot of light. Melanin is there to essentially absorb light. Melanin is present in our, throughout our digestive tract. It’s called enterochromaffin cells, is where these dark patches within our intestines, in our gut, in our stomach, where melanin likes to hang out. If you look at it in a microscope, it actually looks like dark patches. You say, what is that? That’s melanin. Where most people say that’s usually just on the skin, it’s all inside of us as well.
Zac Cormier – 2:35 PM
That, those enterochromaffin cells are what makes 90% of our serotonin. It is what makes our melatonin, it’s responsible for dopamine, a ton of different hormones. It has a huge role, and without having that melanin in there, you don’t get any of those hormones. There’s a huge patch within the brain as well. It’s called the substantia nigra. If actually, if you cut open somebody’s brain, you’d find a dark patch in there, which is exactly this picture I have here.
Zac Cormier – 2:35 PM
It says healthy patient and Parkinson’s disease patient. The arrows are pointing to where it is dark, and then where it is not dark. This is showing where melanin is, and then where melanin is not. One thing that all doctors can agree on is that, specifically Parkinson’s, is that there is always the degradation and disappearance of this melanin within the brain in that substantia nigra. So it’s…
Zac Cormier – 2:36 PM
It’s just because someone has a skin tone like this gentleman here in the upper right, having darker skin in the freckles, he has a lot of a specific type of melanin that is on his skin. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s internal. It’s a different kind of melanin that actually goes within us, in our organs, in our brain, around our nerves, anywhere you find it. It’s really important to make sure that we keep melanin there, just based off of this brain story.
Zac Cormier – 2:36 PM
Based off these slides, if you look at the healthy patient, there’s little dark patches all over the place. And in the Parkinson’s, you start seeing all those dark patches disappear. Essentially what the role of melanin is, like I said earlier, is to absorb light. That’s why it’s on the outside of our bodies. That’s essentially why people can stay out longer when they have darker skin tones. It allows them to absorb light. Short story, melanin is our natural sunscreen.
Zac Cormier – 2:37 PM
The more you have of it, the more light that you can receive. And when you actually receive that light, what actually happens is melanin moves around your body all over the place. How the body actually moves this, why and it, let’s start with why exactly melanin moves. Melanin is kind of like a school bus where it captures light and then brings it to places that it needs to go. It hunts down wherever light is present.
Zac Cormier – 2:37 PM
Absorb it and bring it to where it’s needed. What a guy back early 1900s found is that, he found that all of our cells in our body actually emit this very low frequency UV light. So we actually glow purple when you really look at it. He used a photomultiplier to where he was able to, he was trying to, you know, it’s such a low frequency of light, it was very hard to pick up.
Zac Cormier – 2:37 PM
His name was Fritz Popp, and when he finally was able to zoom in enough, he found this such a low frequency, but it was there, it was glowing purple. And why this is important is he found that the healthy cells are what glow purple. Unhealthy ones do not have a glow, they do not emit light. Why this is important to the story is that melanin goes to try to deliver light to places that it’s not. Meaning that melanin is trying to deliver light to heal different places.
Zac Cormier – 2:38 PM
It’s trying to deliver light to different places in your body, which is why it’s we actually can tie the brain and skin diseases together when we have certain things like melanomas pop up on your on on your skin, they’re usually not so random for why or where they pop up. Within embryology, our brain, our skin actually come from the same tissue.
They’re called neuroectoderm. They so essentially that same cells, same everything.
Zac Cormier – 2:38 PM
So within those structures, that if one is deficient in light, melanin will move to the other one to actually offload light in an effort to heal it or an effort to actually absorb light. So the example of Parkinson’s and why exactly we have brain degeneration, it’s more than just Parkinson’s. It’s even something as simple as just, I have brain fog now. That’s telling me that the melanin in your brain is disappearing. It’s not able to actually offload light to create an electrical charge, to create the right brain waves in your brain, to actually function properly. The melanin is leaving your brain in order to get light. It’s saying, I’m not getting enough sunlight to create melanin inside my brain. When you go outside and you get in UV light, you get tan. You know, after a while, what you’ll notice is that tan goes away. Where it goes is actually sinks in. It’s melanin from your skin sinking deeper into your body, to go into your digestive tract, into those organs, to going into your brain.
Zac Cormier – 2:39 PM
To keep using up all these things, because as your body uses melanin, it needs a way to replace it. And if you do not replace melanin, it’s where you get all kinds of degenerative disease. That’s why it’s my number one indicator of health. So if someone comes and sees me and they’re very pale, or I see just certain moles or things in certain places, it’s going to give me a lot of information as to what’s going on within them.
Zac Cormier – 2:40 PM
Kind of interesting, but essentially the treatment for melanomas essentially would be sunlight. Why a melanoma or melanin actually travels from an internal organ like your brain to the skin is it’s saying our brain isn’t getting enough sunlight, so we’re going to the skin in an effort to actually trap light. And then once we get light, we can actually bring it back to the brain to charge your brain essentially. So it’s completely the opposite.
Zac Cormier – 2:40 PM
It’s the opposite of what dermatology says, but when you start looking through literature and seeing how the mechanisms behind all these things work, that is the kind of common answer that ties all these things together. So like I said, our body actually uses melanin up. So it’s not, it’s, you have a certain amount of melanin as you live your life, it uses it for different purposes.
Zac Cormier – 2:40 PM
It’s essentially to keep you alive, do all these brain functions, and we need to replace it. That’s why we’re really built to be connected to sunlight in order to keep replacing this melanin inside of us. What happens when you lose melanin, for whatever reason, is that it breaks down into what are called degradation products. One of the main degradation products of when you break down melanin within your brain is it creates dopamine.
Zac Cormier – 2:41 PM
Dopamine is a one of the feel-good hormones, it gives you motivation, it gives you energy, it is also involved in addictive behaviors, and there’s a good reason for that. But essentially it is a daytime hormone that makes you just excel at being awake, focused, energized, all those good things. So for any reason why you break melanin down, being that you’re not replacing it or you’re in conditions that actually break melanin down faster, one of those biggest ones being our artificial lights that are around all the time, actively break down melanin. The frequency of light causes, blue light specifically, causes that melanin to break down into dopamine. And this explains why that all of our screens and devices and being under blue-lit conditions is so addicting.
Zac Cormier – 2:42 PM
Like I said, dopamine is involved in addictive behavior. So as you break down and degenerate your brain essentially with artificial lights, it becomes addicting because of that dopamine. And this is kind of why screens are specifically that blue color actually goes back to when the mafia was trying to determine how to light their casinos and determine all the things within casinos to make people spend more money. So they did all kinds of stuff like serving alcohol gives you a dopamine hit. They do, you know, have all kinds of conditions to do that.
Zac Cormier – 2:42 PM
One main thing I found the most interesting was the specific frequency of blue light they used to light it. They found that it made people just addicted to spending money and gambling. So when it came time for, we started having devices with screens, knowing that this was creating addictive behavior, they obviously put that in there. So we would keep using screens so they can make more money and do all that good stuff. The story was actually Steve Jobs wanted to put red, balance the blue light in devices with red light.
Zac Cormier – 2:43 PM
And he was basically shut down saying that, you know, we’re actually trying to make our devices addictive and, you know, that costs more money. So they, that’s specifically why they did not balance the light within it. So that also explains the story of why we have night owls. So at night, essentially, if you are in an environment of artificial light, you are, it’s, we’re supposed to have pitch black at night. There’s, you know, we can get away with some light here and there.
Zac Cormier – 2:43 PM
But if you have, you know, you’re watching TV, you’re looking at your phone, you have the lights on, on a lamp or up above, you’re breaking down melanin and creating dopamine, which is why people will say, I’m so much more creative and motivated than I could have all this energy to do stuff at night is because you’re degenerating the melanin within your brain to actually create dopamine. And that’s the response you get. So it’s not a good thing. That is a sign that you are degenerating your brain and that you should likely check in on your light signals to actually report replace the melanin and stop degrading your melanin before, you know, it’s, you kind of accelerate aging and longevity and dehydrate your tissues and all your cells. We can see this loss of melanin, not only internally, but it’s also obvious on the skin when we have pale skin that has these, you know, wacky moles, we know, irregularly shaped moles and raised ones, all these funky signs, but also just graying hair.
Zac Cormier – 2:44 PM
Age spots, things like that. It’s, you know, your hair is losing pigment. Same thing with eye degeneration. You’ll notice it gets white and cloudy. It’s the pigment, you’re losing pigment within your eye. You’re losing that melanin, that charge that it needs. You have a ton of melanin within the retina of your eye. That’s why the pupil and your iris are so dark and the sclera, the white around your eye is white. It reflects all light and concentrate all the light going through your pupil into the very dark melanin in the retina in the back of your eye. And from there, it’s able to actually deliver to the brain. But as you degenerate the melanin within your eye, you’re able to use light less effectively and not deliver it to where it needs to go. And when that, if you damage your eyes, you’re not able to get light into your brain, which leads to melanin degradation, which is no bueno, as we just went over.
Zac Cormier – 2:45 PM
So the right side of this slide right here is, I found it, I found the slide, I thought it was just super interesting, so I wanted to throw it in here about, first of all, of course, I noticed that it says sunscreen. So this doctor’s idea is they’re trying to treat pigmentation, essentially, they’re trying to stop creating melanin, which is what a lot of dermatologists or kind of beauty doctors want to do, as it’s obviously lighter, just, you know, no freckles, nothing that you don’t want any of that stuff. So they say, wear sunscreen, which of course, sunscreen is going to block melanin.
Zac Cormier – 2:45 PM
We’re going to go over our next one about how we create melanin, but that’s going to be it’s UV light creates the melanin inside of us. So obviously, if you wear sunscreen, 95% gets blocked by SPF 8. So that is one way to not get pigmentation. But not only would you not get pigmentation on your skin, but you also lose that within your brain, digestive system, all your internal organs, and so on. And then the second one, they say, prevent with antioxidants, essentially, water.
Zac Cormier – 2:46 PM
Why they say that is because when you don’t let your skin get the light that it needs, you are there. They’re going to achieve their goal of not pigmenting skin, for sure, but what they do is actually create damaged skin. They are creating a poor environment for health. Atrophic skin is essentially degrading skin, it’s degenerating.
Zac Cormier – 2:46 PM
To make water, and to make melanin, and do all these things, it’s kind of like a city. A good city that is able to function properly has a post office, and grocery stores, and a fire station, police station, has all these specific characters that play that make the city actually all work. Within your skin, when you start doing things like blocking light, we’re not getting vitamin D within the skin, we’re not getting water within the skin, we’re not getting all these things that we need, so it’s like having a city without any grocery stores. Obviously that’s not going to go so well, and you start having some chaos in there, people are rioting because they want food, and that’s where antioxidants come in. That essentially functions to calm down the chaos that you’ve created. So by doing something like wearing sunscreen, you are stopping pigmentation, creating chaos within the health of your skin, and essentially trying to quench that with a band-aid.
Zac Cormier – 2:47 PM
Lastly, the pigmentation lighteners. There’s all kinds of products within like lotions, and sunscreens, and topicals, makeups, all sorts of stuff that say they use certain products for skin health. One of those, the one that is circled here, is called a tyrosinase inhibitor, and it’s very tiny, but the line that goes above it, it says that it is what stops melanin synthesis. So if you look over back at our little diagram on the left over here, is you see the top, it branches off into tyrosine hydroxylase, and tyrosinase, is that the tyrosinase inhibitor stops the arrow on the right. So you don’t get tyrosinase actually creating melanin, or tyrosinase dependent dopamine. So if you find yourself dependent, and you’re using a lot of sunscreen, there you go. It’s you’re blocking the signals necessary to actually make dopamine within your brain to feel good, focus, concentrate, be creative, all those kind of things. And on top of that, you don’t get melanin to actually replace it inside your body. So obviously, we want to avoid all kinds of tyrosinase inhibitors. They put a few examples underneath that. I’ll give you another example of a big one that’s in a lot of skincare products is retinol, which is essentially vitamin A.
Zac Cormier – 2:48 PM
Why that actually becomes a toxin is that vitamin A within the human body is always bound to light receptors. And when you just put a topical vitamin A on your skin, it’s not bound to a light receptor. Free vitamin A, when it circulates throughout your body, is actually a toxin. It’s called an aldehyde. The problem with that is aldehydes are actually energy deficient. So when they circulate around, they actually look to steal energy from other structures. So anything that is energized. And that’s why they actually cause all kinds of oxidative damage, which I had also mentioned earlier, which steals energy for structures that need it. So if, you know, in all of our cells, I mentioned mitochondria, which are the little engines that actually create energy within us. And you are doing something like having vitamin A floating around, just stealing all this charge from those engines. Your engine is going to just be leaking energy because you have this rogue vitamin in there where you think you’re doing a good thing.
Zac Cormier – 2:49 PM
Because it is not Vitamin A is huge when it comes to skin hydration and all a bunch of other things, all kinds of autoimmune diseases. But when you have vitamin A apart from our light receptors, it doesn’t function so good. And vitamin A and vitamin D are intimately tied together and levels need to be always kind of in line with one another. So if you are vitamin D deficient, you take vitamin A, it makes that vitamin A twice as… even more than twice as toxic.
Zac Cormier – 2:49 PM
Same thing with when you take something like supplemental vitamin D, but you’re vitamin A deficient, it’s going to be something where your body won’t be able to use vitamin D as effectively and kind of exacerbates the problem of the imbalance between the two, again, creating more damage. So there’s a lot of mechanisms that are all tied together, which is why supplements fail almost always. There are a few that are good for temporary uses.
Zac Cormier – 2:50 PM
But most of them are prescribed or not understood to the full extent for how they affect other things in this spiderweb of health integration of our physiology. So it’s once you, you know, you’ll start one product or a medication, then all of a sudden you develop another symptom. And then, you know, you end up with, you know, a slew of other, you know, things that medications and supplements. And before you know, you have a whole cabinet dedicated to it.
Zac Cormier – 2:52 PM
Purple light hits POMC. It creates something called alpha MSH. MSH stands for melanocytes stimulating hormone, which is what creates melanocytes and melanocytes create melanin. So that’s how we end up having that pigment within our skin, our brain, our eyes, our hair, our digestive system, you name it, all over the place. That’s how the melanin is made. But obviously if you wear sunscreen, that is going to be, you know, not work out very well.
Zac Cormier – 2:52 PM
It absorbs all colors. It absorbs full spectrum, visible and non-visible light, meaning not only the visible colors of the rainbow, our ROYGBIV, but also our ultraviolet and infrareds that we can’t see, and even so on to things like radio frequencies and cosmic radiation and all those funky things. But the point is that melanin is so dark, it actually absorbs nearly 100% of light, which is why it is our natural sunscreen and why the more you have of it, you’re able to use the sun a lot more effectively.
Zac Cormier – 2:53 PM
So, when you are living in North Carolina and you don’t ever go outside, but you decide to take a week vacation during the middle of summer to the Bahamas, where the UV index is absolutely insane, you go there and you just burn to a crisp and you blame all the diseases you develop basically on the sun, is you have not built your melanin. You haven’t built your natural sunscreen at all to actually be able to use the sun.
Zac Cormier – 2:53 PM
And when you don’t have your natural sunscreen like melanin, your body can’t use light, and then of course it’s easy to say it’s the sun is the problem, it’s like no, but you’re never in the sun, of course you can’t use it, you haven’t built your solar panel. That’s what our eyes and our skin and our gut are, they’re solar panels that are receiving the light from our environment to code all the processes, to code the clock in our brain to cycle all of our hormones properly, to cycle sleep properly, to digestion properly, all those things.
Zac Cormier – 2:54 PM
So melanin, super important, you want as much of it as you can possibly get. So this kind of gets us to the last point is always the question is, well if I’m not going to use sunscreen, I am going to burn, what do I do about it? And this is where we’re going to talk about how to build your natural sunscreen. Melanin is one part of that, but there’s a lot more to the story.
Zac Cormier – 2:54 PM
It’s a little bit trickier than just starting to go outside and trying to build your solar panel. It’s just a little bit more to that, which we’ll kind of go over how that works and I’ll tell you exactly what to do to actually create that. So on the left here, you can see that there’s this diagram showing on the left, someone’s skin that was exposed to infrared light, and then it was exposed to UV light outside middle of the day. And then on the right, it was someone who did not have any infrared light exposed and then went into UV light. What we can see from this is obviously when your skin is preconditioned with infrared light, that it doesn’t burn nearly as much. That’s what the right side you see the top four levels all have some pretty significant inflammation in those little boxes, where on the left, even the top one is not even close for, you know, how much this person got burned. So the trick comes to being able to use infrared light, essentially to build up our skin to actually function as a better solar panel, and how that mechanism actually works is that there is something in a layer of our skin called profilaggrin. When infrared light hits profilaggrin, what ends up happening, let me move over to this other slide, there’s actually a little diagram showing how this happens. So on the top, there’s three different kind of pathways. On the bottom one, it says histidine, then leads to a bunch of different things.
Zac Cormier – 2:55 PM
When you have that infrared light hit profilaggrin, it turns into a protein in your skin called filaggrin. If you don’t have red light hitting it, you don’t get filaggrin. Why filaggrin is so important is filaggrin is present in just about every autoimmune condition and skin condition that there is. So if you have it, you’re going to be doing much better off than somebody without it. When you have that filaggrin, what it does is actually create something called histidine.
Zac Cormier – 2:56 PM
Histidine is something called an aromatic amino acid. That’s really nerdy. What that means is all aromatic amino acids in our skin require UV sunlight, purple light. If they don’t get that, you end up having some not-so-great things happen. The example of this is people with histamine issues or mast cell disorders, kind of the same thing to a degree where they end up having all kinds of histamine all over, they can’t eat foods high in histamine, all those kind of things. Because histamine and histidine are, like I said, aromatic amino acids that require sunlight to break those down. When you have histidine present after the filigree makes it, and you have UV light present, it makes something called urocanic acid. Urocanic acid is, again, another natural sunscreen that we have.
Zac Cormier – 2:57 PM
It absorbs a lot of UV light specifically, and it has a UV filter right here, versus above it, it says histamine creates erythema, which is essentially skin redness or inflammation. So after you have histidine in your skin, if you have no sunlight, you end up getting inflammation. If you do have sunlight, you end up getting UV and sun protection. On top of that, the urocanic acid, something else that it does is it absorbs UV light.
Zac Cormier – 2:57 PM
It actually determines a lot of how our body is going to make melanin or melanomas. In skin that actually gets enough red light to create filaggrin, to actually create enough urocanic acid, what ends up happening is that it accesses that sunscreen, but also does things like turn over dead cells and gets rid of them. It takes out the cellular trash, creates new healthy ones, and is involved in a big part of your immune system, especially on your skin. So when it comes to fighting off all kinds of pathogens like bacteria and viruses, what have you, is if you don’t have any of this acid in there, it’s not going to be able to fight off all these different pathogens. So why I put this Fitzpatrick scale here is to kind of highlight that everyone of course does have different degrees of melanin, even different degrees of concentration.
Zac Cormier – 2:58 PM
All kinds of different ways of how people are going to absorb or use their environment to get light. Me, I am type 1, absolutely, northern European, and just not built for a lot of sun exposure. But over time, kind of using what I’m talking about here is preconditioning your skin to use infrared light in order to accept a lot of UV light, is what, how I was able to actually build up enough melanin and uric acid within my skin to where when I start going out in the sun in Florida and UV index like 13 is I would burn in 5 minutes. Uh, and I built it up enough to where I can go UV 13 all day, no sunscreen, no problem. Uhm, and I, you know, I, I was uh, back in school then, and I came home for Thanksgiving or something, and it was like nobody was recognizing me.
Zac Cormier – 2:59 PM
So I was, my skin got, so dark and I look so different. Uhm, so I just built up a massive amount of melanin and all these, you know, products in my skin, vitamin D and water and, you know, uric acid, all that stuff, to create a lot of health. Uhm, to kind of highlight that protocol, just make it really simple and easy to understand, is that when the sun rises in the morning, infrared light is present by itself without any UV light at all.
Zac Cormier – 2:59 PM
Uhm, when your skin is not healthy, or you live inside mostly, or you’re trying to build up, your solar panel that’s your skin, is that you’re not ready for UV light to use it effectively because you have, you’re, the city within your skin is just, doesn’t have the infrastructure essentially. So what we want to do is you want to go out early morning before the, UV comes up during the day. An easy way to, see if UV is present or not is, is your shadow shorter or taller than you? If your shadow is shorter than you, UV light is present. If it’s taller than you, it’s not present or minimally present. So if you can, it’s, if you can kind of look to seem, like when sunrises, if you can get out like an hour and a half, the hour and a half to two hours after that sunrises.
Zac Cormier – 3:00 PM
So, right here, today, I think the sunrise was about probably like 6:30, 6:45, somewhere in there was starting to get light. If between that period from about 6:30 to, 8:00-8:30, you’re getting infrared light without any UV. So what that does is then create a bunch of filaggrin that allows you to make histidine to get ready to accept UV light. Uh, when you can do that, it’s basically just a bunch of people like waiting with buckets, just waiting to capture all this UV light versus if you didn’t see that morning sunlight, you’re not getting filaggrin.
Zac Cormier – 3:01 PM
And they’re not out with their buckets ready to catch UV light, they’re just, they’re still in bed sleeping. Uh, and then you go out UV light and it ends up damaging your skin, and you’re not able to actually regulate all your melanin production properly. Um, so it becomes, you know, it’s, it’s not enough just to go out in the sun a little bit here and there. We are ultimately very connected, um, to all these frequencies of light, through these things. So I think that pretty much wraps up the short story.
Zac Cormier – 3:01 PM
Of that, the last thing I’ll kind of mention here is, people, will on forums will say, what’s the best brand of sunscreen? Uh, I like to reply “morning sun” and here they are saying, where do I find that? And, of course, just, you know, it’s a good chuckle for me, but it’s a little bit longer story for them, but, that’s it. But anyway, I’ll go through some of the, I see there’s a couple of questions here. If you have any questions, feel free to put them in now, and we’ll go through.
Zac Cormier – 3:01 PM
Then, all right, let’s go up here. All right. (Question) I love sunglasses. Is there ever a good time you can wear them maybe just for an hour a day? Uh, yeah. So sunglasses, like I mentioned at the start, it’s something that goes between your eye and the sun. We need a lot of sunlight in our eyes to code all sorts of things. We have a bunch of hormones made in our eye. Thyroid hormones is made in the eye. Initially, dopamine is in there, serotonin, melanin, all these things. So when we put on sunglasses, that is blocking light from going in there. You don’t get thyroid hormone. You don’t get dopamine. You don’t get serotonin.
Sunglasses are never good. I recommend throwing them out short of there’s sometimes when you’re driving and safety is a concern. If you’re driving straight into the sun and you absolutely cannot see, sure. Put on sunglasses so you can actually see and not just run everybody off the road. But as soon as you’re out of that, you know, I’d put the sunglasses down and let, sunlight in your eye. We need lots of it as much as you can possibly get, so I tell everybody ditch the sunglasses, ditch the sunscreen, and generally, wear as little clothes as possible. Like I said, our skin, our eyes, every part of us is a solar panel. If you’re trying to power a house with a bunch of solar panels, you wouldn’t put a tarp over half of them. So that’s why I say take as much of your tarp off as you can get rid of, hats when you can get rid of, sunglasses and wear as little as possible. The more you can get on your skin, the more energy you’re gonna be able to harness, the more hormones you’ll create, the more, you know, the better cycles for digestion and sleep and all those things kind of get regulated through there.
Good question though. A very popular question. But unfortunately, I have to give you the answer of, yeah, ditch the sunglasses, um, for sure.
Zac Cormier – 3:03 PM
So second question, (Question) I’m fascinated about your light research and knowledge on health. It makes so much sense. Do you feel that energy healers, facilitators help to imprint light into the human biofield? And that is also what is part of what is helpful for people. I’m in a session. I do see lights in certain colors at times. Absolutely. Sarah, doing energy work, you’re essentially manipulating, light and electromagnetic fields. I showed, at the start here, the electromagnetic Spectrum, where was it? Let me put it back up. There it is. The electromagnetic spectrum dealing with visible and non-visible light, energy work deals with non-visible light. So you’re working in, you know, it shows radio waves to cosmic rays here. As far as what kind of light, energy work deals with hard to say, but it absolutely is dealing with non-visible light. Light is information. Like I said, a projector on the screen.
Zac Cormier – 3:04 PM
The practitioner is the projector, the client is the screen, the energy work that flows from you to them, or, you know, auras, all that stuff is non-visible light, that is full of information, and essentially the intention, structures that information that is in formation, energy in formation, and that is how it’s delivered. Cool question.
Zac Cormier – 3:04 PM
Let’s see here, (Question) Vitamin D story makes so much sense. So when I need vitamin D supplements, but I live outside of Houston, that sunblock over the years has advertised UVB blocking as a good thing. I’ve been using sunblock for many years. I can taste them when I put it on. I’m looking forward to this for myself and my family. Yeah, so, you probably asked us before the very end, when I was going over, the natural sunscreen bit, dermatologist will generally say, here’s a 50,000, unit Vitamin D supplement. I’ll see you back in six weeks and we’ll see how it goes, and that obviously doesn’t jive with anything I said about how our body actually creates or uses vitamin D. There’s many different forms of vitamin D and they all require light to actually become usable forms or do all these different things.
Zac Cormier – 3:05 PM
That, and on top of that, supplemental vitamin D goes through your gut. What I told you is the process happens in the skin, not in your gut. In your gut, it’s designed to only absorb very minimal amounts of vitamin D, any vitamin D containing food. It only happens in very small amounts. So it’s the body, it’s, it’s foreign to the body. It doesn’t add up. So when that happens, you don’t get the benefit of actually doing vitamin D, which is why you can take vitamin D supplements and never have a change in vitamin D levels. Or on specific tests, it’ll show that you have high circulating vitamin D, but not have any actual usable vitamin D. So the vitamin D story is a little complicated. You also have places like California where you have a bunch of tan people in the sun all the time, yet they have horrible vitamin D levels. That is a story for a different webinar, but also a very juicy story. That, like I said, different webinar, but good question. And of course the alternative to using sunscreen is you build your natural sunscreen.
Zac Cormier – 3:06 PM
(Question) So we should not use skincare products that lighten pigmentation, vitamin C? Correct! We do not want to use anything that lightens pigmentation. Uh, if you’re lightening pigmentation, that means that you’re essentially destroying the process that creates melanin. Melanin again is the key indicator for health because it’s the strongest creator of electrical charge within us. If you test any area of the body in any disease, um, disease is always correlated with deficiency.
Zac Cormier – 3:07 PM
So if you test the voltage of any cells, it’s, if you have psoriasis scenario, if I tested it with a voltmeter, it’s going to read deficient, which is why in my office I have a tester that I can, you know, test any body parts. Someone comes in with some kind of heart disease. I test, you know, different heart areas, related to different nerves in their ear and their brain and all these things. And it all shows the cells related to the heart are deficient. Uh, melanin is the main creator of charge for that.
Zac Cormier – 3:07 PM
That is what makes our cellular engines function really strongly. So no, we don’t want to use, skincare products. Essentially most of the products in there are really geared toward only the aesthetic of smooth skin, or non-pigmenting things or making things lighter. But it may look good on the surface, but underneath what happens to the skin again is, is it becomes atrophic, meaning the skin gets very thin, it gets, light, you end up creating no infrastructure in the city of your skin. You’re not going to get that filaggrin that you need, and your skin gets very weak. Filaggrin also is, helpful for creating the matrix of keratin in your skin, which is what makes it tight and actually optimizes thickness in your skin.
So some people having thin skin or they bruise easily, things like that, is where you’re going to have like that low keratin level and a weak matrix. But when you have that matrix in there, you’re able to hold on to things like cholesterol and actually make vitamin D, but if you do things to have weak skin, you can’t hold cholesterol on your skin. You can’t even make vitamin D then. So another way that you can not make vitamin D, even though you’re, you know, getting a lot of stuff that you need.
Zac Cormier – 3:08 PM
So it looks like another question here. (Question) How long does it take to prepare your solar panel? Type one skin tone here too, best way to protect myself when headed to the beach in two weeks? So preparing this, just like I said, that last slide about preparing your solar panel is between now and also when you’re at the beach is you want to get as much infrared light before UV pops up as possible. So that is waking up with the sunrise and getting outside that as much as you can during that entire time creates a lot of filaggrin in your skin, so that way when you do go out into that UV light environment, you’re able to absorb a bunch of it and actually won’t cause damage. So doing it now, excuse me, will actually prime your skin and actually build up the amount that’s actually able to create.
And then when you’re at the beach, knowing that you’re going to be out, you know, longer periods of UV light, definitely make sure to get infrared, wake up early so you can get that infrared light at the beach and you will notice that you’ll be able to stay longer in the light then if you didn’t kind of precondition in the morning with that infrared light. Same thing goes for a healing skin or sunburns is sunset sun is also just primarily that infrared light, not having UV. So seeing sunsets, it’s a great way to actually heal your skin and get even more infrared light and precondition it for the next day to, you know, start getting all that UV light that it needs.
Zac Cormier – 3:10 PM
Is there any last-minute questions? Put it in here. We got maybe like five minutes. No one has anything else. Then we can wrap it up. (Question) Does it take weeks or months to create your solar panel? So it’s sort of automatic. It doesn’t take weeks or months to create the solar panel. The solar panel is you always, you’re always have one, even if your skin is really deficient. It’s just a very weak solar panel. The amount of, basically the amount of infrared light you condition it with, and then afterwards filling, it’s basically the infrared light creates as big of a bucket as for accepting UV light. So initially, if your skin is very damaged, you have a tiny little pail. So it’s, you may precondition your skin. That pail gets, that pail gets a little bigger than that day. You go out, you get as much UV light as you can.
As soon as you feel like you start burning, get out of the sun, put some clothes on, don’t put sunscreen on, put on a hat, go under an umbrella, something like that and then you’ll notice that the next day it’ll actually keep building up to where you may have a pail week one, week two, you’re going to have a bucket. Uh, and then, you know, week three, you’re going to have like a five-gallon bucket and it does slowly build up, and it is just how your skin responds to those things. It doesn’t necessarily take weeks or months, depends kind of how much you’re consistent with it, and kind of other pieces as well, certain light environments will damage your skin, more artificial lights, damage your skin. So the more time you spend around those, that’ll actually weaken your solar panel and actually give you a smaller bucket as well to capture UV light.
Good question.
Zac Cormier – 3:11 PM
Um, thank you, Zach. I’ll listen to Corinne as well. Awesome. Alrighty. So just to wrap everything up then, thank you guys all for listening. You guys are awesome. Awesome. Great questions. I’m sure there’ll be some more to come up too. Lastly, again, this was the, first webinar that I’ve done. It was, you know, free for everybody. It’ll be, the video will be out soon so you can share it with everybody that you think could benefit from hearing this information. Moving forward, I said it’d be available in the Meridiogram app. So, subscribing to that, there’s a couple of different ways you can subscribe to it depending on your needs.
Zac Cormier – 3:12 PM
Essentially it is the app that guides you through holistic health and creating an environment where you can, create your own health, and not necessarily be relying on anybody else for it. You can understand your own health. So kind of, the smaller, subscriptions are going to be just getting the Meridiogram assessment to kind of say, this is what’s going on with your health and this is kind of what you should do about it kind of thing. A level up from that is having that assessment plus access to the webinars, which is awesome. And then, steps up from that is varying levels of guidance, which are one-on-one Zoom sessions that’ll be, you know, we’re going to go through, you know, your, health history, your environment, your Meridiogram assessment, all those good things, to where we really dive into you specifically. I’ll let you know exactly what you need to do in very easy and digestible ways.
Zac Cormier – 3:13 PM
And, not only is this for you, but it’s also for your family too. Cause a lot of these things, like I said, it deals with your environment. So when you’re setting up your indoor environment, I said, artificial lights damage your skin. So it’s when you have a family involved and it’s obviously you want to care about their health too. So one cool thing you can do is with a few changes to your internal environment, you can really help not only your health, but your family’s health. So it’s definitely bigger than any, just one of us. We’re absolutely all in this together. That’s why when I, you know, find out the information I find out, I’m super excited to share it with everybody.
Zac Cormier – 3:13 PM
It’s really life-changing and it’s mostly free stuff or very cheap stuff. It just requires that you do it kind of thing, and it’s super exciting to know how much power for our own health we really have in our hands. And it’s not in, you know, a supplement or a medication or anything like that. Once you understand the kind of the things that you need to do to create health, it’s, it’s so exciting. So I’m excited for all you guys. Thank you for joining in again.
