(Thanks, C. :)

Reader C. forwards to us this comment, found here:

http://weeksmd.com/2011/12/hair-as-an-extension-of-your-nervous-system/

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Hair as an extension of your nervous system!

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Bradford S. Weeks, MD

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Dr. Weeks’ Comment: In 1984, while working at Massachusetts General Hospital as a research assistant with Michael Holick, M.D., Ph.D. (who then went on to become “Mr. Vitamin D” and is deserving of Nobel Prize for his pioneering research ) I learned that Draper Labs (a local weapons manufacturing company), had discovered a fascinating fact about polar bear physiology. Let me back up: why in the world would the weapons manufacturer Draper Labs be studying polar bears? Well, because of the high levels of vitamin D3 in polar bear liver, of course! Still don’t see the connection? OK, follow me along this path of reasoning: 1) vitamin D (really a hormone) needs to activated by sunlight (UV-B) from 7-dehydrocholesterol in the skin to 25-OH D3 (calcidiol) in the liver and then to the active form, 1,25 OH D3 in the kidneys. The earliest explorers learned the hard way that eating polar bear liver is toxic (500 grams of polar bear liver will deliver dangerous levels of fat soluble vitamins: about 9,000,000 IU vitamin A to your diet – a very lethal dose and is also very high in vitamin D) so the question became: “How does sunlight get past the thick hair of the polar bear in order to catalyze the pro-vitamin D into active vitamin D?” The answer was: the polar bear hair is fiber optic! This was not surprising in light of the myriad ancient religious traditions which dictate the practice of not cutting hair and, in the case of the Hindu tradition, of coiling it atop the crown chakra under a turban. Rudolf Steiner spoke of human hair as being antennae and nourished by light.

And now we are told the Department of Defense knows more about hair physiology than they are letting on: it is an extension of the nervous system and soldiers are more obedient if their hair is shaved off!

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