What is the Sunshine Act and how does it affect you?
As noted above, the Sunshine Act makes medical manufacturers tell the government about their financial relationships with doctors or hospitals. Manufacturers will make those reports through a system like the one described on this site.
Can sunlight help treat mood disorders?
Sunlight reaching the eyes can reset a person's circadian rhythms, enabling a healthier sleep-wake cycle and better healing. And it can be deployed strategically to treat mood disorders in particular.
Can sunlight improve your health?
Hobday's book, The Light Revolution: Health, Architecture and the Sun, delves into the history of how sunlight has been used to alleviate conditions ranging from rickets to heart disease. He advocates “5 Points of Solar Architecture for Health”:
Can artificial sunlight help treat bipolar depression?
Benedetti also demonstrated that artificial sunshine from light therapy lamps can be an effective, non-invasive, and safe intervention for bipolar depression, which can be difficult to treat with antidepressants, and their hit-or-miss effectiveness for individual patients.
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The goal of treatment for alcoholism is abstinence. Those with poor social support, poor motivation, or psychiatric disorders tend to relapse within a few years of treatment. For these people, success is measured by longer periods of abstinence, reduced use of alcohol, better health, and improved social functioning.
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Research clearly demonstrates that recovery is far more successful and sustainable when loved ones like family members participate in rehab and substance abuse treatment. Genetic factors may be at play when it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, as well as mental health issues.
Sunshine and suicide
In spite of a widespread belief that the peak occurs in late autumn and early winter, 2) a positive correlation between sunlight and suicide has been demonstrated by several researchers.
By providing temporary symptom relief, tanning may be addictive
The Vitamin D Receptor (VDR) is at the heart of innate immunity The body's first line of defense against intracellular and other pathogens. According to the Marshall Pathogenesis the innate immune system becomes disabled as patients develop chronic disease. , transcribing over 913 genes.
Patients experiences
My mood improved seriously when I started wearing NoIRs Special sunglasses worn by Marshall Protocol patients to block light. , the most powerful antidepressivum I ever used. Did not start the benicar yet. The antidepressive effect of avoiding bright light is an impressive proof for 1,25D being involved in depression.
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"Why Am I Sick?" (Nudist Forum) - a number of devoted nudists complain about their symptoms of inflammatory disease
Do sanatoriums have sun?
Similarly, before the development of antibiotic therapy for tuberculosis, sanatoriums addressed the worldwide pandemic with sunlight. Doctors noted that patients who lay in the morning sun gained more weight and went home sooner. This became standard practice around the world:
Does filtered light reduce UV?
Light through the windows would have substantially reduced UV exposure, and the benefit of such filtered light to the eyes seems likely to have involved the mood-energy effect. In the early years of the 20th century, my great-grandparents ran a tuberculosis sanatorium in the beautiful town of Otwock, Poland.
Is artificial sunshine safe for bipolar?
Benedetti also demonstrated that artificial sunshine from light therapy lamps can be an effective, non-invasive, and safe intervention for bipolar depression, which can be difficult to treat with antidepressants, and their hit-or-miss effectiveness for individual patients.
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What Is the Sunshine Act?
As noted above, the Sunshine Act makes medical manufacturers tell the government about their financial relationships with doctors or hospitals. Manufacturers will make those reports through a system like the one described on this site.
What Is the Relationship Between Manufacturers and Doctors?
Medical manufacturers often court doctors and teaching hospitals. The manufacturers want their products prescribed or used by patients. If the products work well, the doctors often serve as word of mouth advocates.
Why Does the Government Care?
At first blush, it might seem like a waste of time and taxpayer money to collect and publish this information. After all, who else will medical manufacturers talk to about medical products if not doctors?
The Sunshine Act Helps Ensure More Responsible Medical Care
What is the Sunshine Act? It’s a move meant to keep medical manufacturers and doctors accountable. With the financial relationships in public view, doctors and or even hospitals will find it much harder to push a specific medicine or device.
