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It's a long story, but this is the short version:

Vitamin D3 will increase your quality-of-life and life-expectancy.

Best way to get D3? Sunlight, nature's own prescription.

But if we avoid the sun, we still have two choices:

Choose wisely!

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About Alex St Clair

Hi, I'm Alex St Clair. Here's where I get to tell you about me.

I'm into health, nutrition, wholesome foods, supplements, herbs and other natural remedies, pollution, longevity, diseases (especially, why we get them) and preserving the planet for our children. In fact, just about anything health-related. It's been a lifelong interest for me.

I'm lucky enough to live in an amazing part of the world, South Africa, and still have access (via the Internet) to the greatest ideas, most profound knowledge and latest news on the planet. That's really an awesome blessing.

Through my websites, I'm able to reach thousands of people in every country of the world, influence their thinking a little, and help them to improve their health. That is my passion and my purpose.

I count myself fortunate to be a family man, with a wonderful wife, three amazing children and two beautiful grandchildren.

I'm grateful that I enjoy very good health, though I've had a few intimations of mortality along the way. Most of us can say the same, especially if we are middle-aged (I think that's about sixty!) or older.

My first serious health crisis happened when I was 32 years old. That's when I realised I had better start looking after myself and those I love.
 

About this website

Now a few words about the reason for this website....

As you know, there is currently a buzz of interest in vitamin D. It is a very topical issue, but I'm convinced it's not just a flash in the pan.

We are all beginning to realize that vitamin D is really important to our well-being, and over half of us are not getting enough! I'm happy to play a small part in getting the word out.

No one knows the whole story yet. It's still being revealed by scientists and medical researchers. There are going to be many more installments. So my advice is: boost your vitamin D, to the level nature intended. It can only improve your health.

And living longer is not a bad idea either, so long as you're having fun.

I'd like to acknowledge a debt of gratitude to the following people and organisations. I've drawn on their knowledge shamelessly for research into vitamin D for this website:

There are many others that I cannot acknowledge here individually.  I am grateful to all of them.
 

About Health

For other health philosophers, here's how I see it.

We are self-healing and simply awesome!

We are each given an amazing body and mind to put to good use in this lifetime.

If we make good choices, I believe most of us can live long and productive lives, in good health, with abundant energy, until our time here is over.

Each person's body/mind is a self-regulating and self-healing organism with extraordinary recuperative powers. If it gets sick, from whatever cause, it knows how to set itself right and wants nothing more than to restore itself to perfect health.

In many cases, all we have to do is remove the cause (if it persists) of an illness. Then, if he problem was not too acute or longstanding, the body/mind will heal itself.

The problem is, the cause or causes of our ill-health are usually rooted in our own lifestyle choices, which become habits.

Do we choose our own health?

Our lifestyle choices, including what we eat, drink and smoke, when and how we exercise, how much stress we take on, where we live and work, and how we spend our time, collectively have an irresistible impact on our health.

We are not hostages to genes, germs or hormones. Lifestyle factors powerfully influence how our genes are expressed, how our bodies react to microbes, and how effectively our biochemical processes perform.

When our lifestyle choices (particularly nutritional) are sound, most of us can expect to be rewarded with good health. If we make poor choices, knowingly or not, we deprive our body/mind of some resource that it needs. Then some of our biological systems start to go awry - and eventually, unless we change course, we become ill.

Sometimes we can deal with illness through a medical intervention (perhaps a drug or surgery), but when the cause of an illness is a longstanding lack of resources, neither drug nor operation will get to the root of the problem. It may just shuffle our symptoms around a bit - and probably add a few more.

If a lack of resources causes ill health, then the only way our body/mind can return to health is if we provide those missing resources. Anything less is just a patch.

Healthcare - a new approach

Imagine a healthcare system that applied these principles proactively. One that helped people to see what resources they lacked, even before they became ill. One that showed people how to make good lifestyle choices and encouraged them to actually make them.

Treating diseases (fixing broken parts) is reactive. The healthcare system reacts, but sometimes it's too late. Something is already broken. At the moment our healthcare systems are 5% proactive and 95% reactive. There are two problems with this: it doesn't work very well, and we can't afford it.

I believe our healthcare should be 80% proactive and only 20% reactive.

Even in the reactive portion, costs could be vastly reduced by treating illnesses with the appropriate resource, be it sunshine or exercise or fresh vegetables - whose lack caused the patient to become ill - instead of with drugs and surgery.

In a proactive system, more attention would be focused on education - of the entire population through schools and adult classes -  and of medical doctors and other healthcare workers.

Doctors - a new breed

For example, doctors would study all aspects of human nutrition, natural food therapies, and the profound relationship between diet and wellness. In the same way, they would acquire a deep understanding of all other resources which the body/mind requires for its total well-being.

Doctors, as the word originally implied, would become educators and teachers. They would help patients understand the risks associated with their genetic weaknesses and lifestyle deficiencies.

Doctors would teach patients how to eat well, manage their stress, avoid pollution, and exercise adequately; preserving health even before it was lost. These ideas would also be explored thoroughly in schools and adult classes, so that everyone would be well-informed.

Doctors would know about all kinds of effective, natural and gentle therapies, especially those that their patients could undertake themselves, at little or no cost. Doctors would teach simple techniques such as safe fasting, diet changes, and internal cleanses. They would encourage their patients to try these therapies first, where appropriate.

Medical Profession will reflect the highest ethical standards

Doctors would once again take pride in the ethics of their profession, putting their patients needs above their own, independently of commercial pressure from pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and the like.

These organisations would not support any of these measures because healthy people do not need the drugs and operations they supply.

The medical profession would have to find the strength to stand up to these commercial interests, both in regard to their own training as doctors and in their clinical practice.

And doctors' own medical associations would need to be radically overhauled to reflect the new thinking. These changes would require leadership of the highest calibre.

Through such leadership, doctors would learn, and teach each other, that only with great reluctance, in medical emergencies or where no alternatives exist, should they attempt to usurp the body/mind's role as self-healer. First, do no harm.

Better Health at Lower Cost

If our healthcare system played its proactive part well, there would be much less illness requiring its reactive capability. We would all enjoy much better health, at a fraction of the current healthcare cost.

We can choose this future if we want it. Not everyone does, of course. Those powerful industries and institutions we spoke of have a huge financial interest in maintaining the status quo.

But an idea whose time has come is more powerful than money! I don't know whether that time has yet arrived, but I can sense it coming.

Thanks for visiting this website. May you enjoy abundant good health!

Alex St Clair

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