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"Are Humans Solar Powered?

Are we, too, solar powered, like plants?  It’s no longer a question, it’s an answer.

 

Summary of TEDxtalk: Water, Cells, Life by Dr. Gerald Pollack, a water scientist at the University of Washington, tell us where the energy comes from that supplies our bodies with get up and go.  In it,  Dr. Pollack challenges the long-held explanation that the bulk of our energy comes from food, in the form of calories.  He provides an entirely new and very exciting paradigm, one that will open up new dimensions of body energy for accelerated healing and vitality.   And he shares his unexpected laboratory results to back his explanation up.  This will surely be a seminal TEDxtalk.

  

In it Dr. Pollack makes two unexpected and paradigm-advancing points.  

Hold onto your hat." 

 

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/are-humans-solar-powered

The links at the bottom of the article are pretty mind boggling too!

 

 

 

 

 

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I know I am. I love the sun, its warmth and light, it just makes me happy and feels good. :)

 

Now I am going to read the article.

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 Me too!

And if you can lie on the ground while you're in the sun, you get doubly charged!  :D

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All life on Earth and many nonorganic processes as well are "solar-powered." Virtually everything which happens on this planet traces back to gravity and/or solar radiation.

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All life on Earth and many nonorganic processes as well are "solar-powered." Virtually everything which happens on this planet traces back to gravity and/or solar radiation.

 

 

Perhaps this is where the practice of sungazing comes from. Don't recommend the practice.

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My wife can lie and bake in the sun like a gecko.  I am the opposite extreme.  While I love the sun, I have no love for being in the sun, ever.  It is an aggressive and penetrating experience that leaves me almost instantly looking for shade.  An odd trait to bear while living in one of the sunniest places on the planet :) 

 

I am brought to full life on cloudy, rainy days.  A pluviophile through and through.  Perhaps I descended from ferns.

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My wife can lie and bake in the sun like a gecko.  I am the opposite extreme.  While I love the sun, I have no love for being in the sun, ever.  It is an aggressive and penetrating experience that leaves me almost instantly looking for shade.  An odd trait to bear while living in one of the sunniest places on the planet :)

 

I am brought to full life on cloudy, rainy days.  A pluviophile through and through.  Perhaps I descended from ferns.

 

 

I absolutely love the sun and when clouds move in for a few days I don't like it. Santa Fe is one of the sunniest places on the planet and cloudy days are rare since we have over 300 days of full sun/year.

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My wife can lie and bake in the sun like a gecko.  I am the opposite extreme.  While I love the sun, I have no love for being in the sun, ever.  It is an aggressive and penetrating experience that leaves me almost instantly looking for shade.  An odd trait to bear while living in one of the sunniest places on the planet :) 

 

I am brought to full life on cloudy, rainy days.  A pluviophile through and through.  Perhaps I descended from ferns.

I choose to live near running water in a temperate rain forest.
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I choose to live near running water in a temperate rain forest.

 

You must have about 60 days of full sun/year? If that?

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You must have about 60 days of full sun/year? If that?

Yeah that's probably about right. Most days are at least partly cloudy. Official numbers say around 200 sunny days but these are for the lower elevations and aren't really "full sun." Now, my house(s) are in the lower elevations but I spend as much free time in the high country as I can and, when current obligations are reduced, I'll move back into a high mountain valley.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_temperate_rainforest

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I grew up in the forests of Afton and Cottage Grove Minnesota, my step mother's house was about 20 feet from the banks of a bay that feeds the Mississippi.  Water was so abundant and ever-present most of my life, I took it for granted. 

 

My appreciation for water in all forms has grown exponentially since my arrival here in the Western desert lands.

 

I love it here, but the sun and the lack of rain puts a strain on some part of my inner self.  If there is even a hint of rain, I'm out in it, whistling and grinning like an idiot.

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THe crown chakra is a gaint blossoming flower.

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It is no suprise that people who engage in concentration eat less. 

 

 

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I've noticed years ago that people are solar powered in SoCal -- perhaps it's a metabolic adaptation to the climate, but here it is very noticeable.  Most of the time everybody is active, everybody is doing something that involves getting outside and pursuing this or that activity, no one is a couch potato...  until the rare eventuality of a rainy day.  Then everybody is just lost.  People move in a daze, looking forlorn and behaving erratically.  Drivers caught in the rain don't slow down -- they speed up, as someone would on foot who doesn't have an umbrella and is trying to get out of the rain as fast as possible.  And folks always try to comfort each other discussing rainy weather -- "well...  we need it," with exactly the same expression someone who needs a difficult surgery might exhibit trying to maintain a brave face.      

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I grew up in the forests of Afton and Cottage Grove Minnesota, my step mother's house was about 20 feet from the banks of a bay that feeds the Mississippi.  Water was so abundant and ever-present most of my life, I took it for granted. 

 

My appreciation for water in all forms has grown exponentially since my arrival here in the Western desert lands.

 

I love it here, but the sun and the lack of rain puts a strain on some part of my inner self.  If there is even a hint of rain, I'm out in it, whistling and grinning like an idiot.

 

I feel exactly the same way.  I miss water in all forms -- here in SoCal, I have to be in the marine layer, as close to the ocean as possible, or I couldn't live here at all.   Sunshine...  well, I love sunshine, but too much of the good thing is as problematic as not enough.  I can hardly find a shady place to practice taiji outdoors, e.g., and you can't do taiji in the sun if you keep it traditional, and in many cases, you can't do it in the sun at all.  Too yang. 

 

We had a mercifully rainy winter this time around, after five years of drought, and I was so grateful...  My eyes are always starved for the color green, and this is the first time I'm seeing green stuff here almost as green in some places as in the real world.  :D

 

Fire and Water are useless without each other. 

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Boy you are right on the money with that observation of most folks her in SoCal.  It's palpable.

 

If you frequent Redondo Beach in the rain, or the cloudy days, we've likely walked right by each other several times over the last 16 years.  I'm almost guaranteed to be there at some point on a rainy/cloudy day, soaking the moisture by osmosis.

 

And hasn't this off-summer been incredible?!  The last year I recall this much rain was in 2000, when we moved here from NYC.

 

Several times I have had an opportunity to buy a house inland somewhat, but we have never followed through.  Living in Torrance under that marine influence is just too beneficial and wondrous.  Sometimes when I'm coming back home in the Summer from the studios.... I'll leave work and it's 104-106 in the valley.  By the time I get home, it's 80-85 in South Bay.

 

As I'm driving down the 405 south through the Getty Pass... I can literally watch the digital temperature readout on the dashboard, counting down every 1/2 mile or so. 

 

I think if I ever do leave South Bay, it will be for the Goldilocks zone... which to me is 6,000-8,000 feet in the mountains somewhere.  Few bugs, higher moisture and moderate temps... with a bit of Winter, but not too much. 

 

 

On a side note:  Have you ever been to The Green Temple in Redondo?  Vege restaurant that serves amazing tea and herbal infusions along with their inspired menu.  Great stuff, and right near the alphabet avenues down near the beach there...

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