READERS SUMMARY: 1. Are dermatologists right about the sun being bad for us all the time? 2. Why is sunlight so vilified by some physicians? 3. What does Vitamin D really do for us and our immunity? 4. What diseases does it play a major role in humans? What help does it give? 5. What other conditions might optimizing your vitamin D levels help?   I was in a lounge watching the news last week and began to over hear a group of dermatologists talk about the new FDA rules set down for sunblocks that will go into effect in January of 2012. There was unanimous agreement among them all that sunlight was the source of everything that was bad in their world. One of the doctors said to another that, “no human should be out in the sun and they should just take vitamin D3 from the drug store instead of getting it from the sun.” It was at that point I knew this was going to make a blog post about this.  Apparently no one realizes that photosynthesis supports most of the food chain on this planet?  And we are the mammal who has an energy hog inContinue Reading