Did you know that old hospitals had sun decks? Entire wings were built so that patients could lie in the sunlight.
published on 22/9/2025 SimoneVoss
Especially in tuberculosis sanatoriums at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, this was done for a reason: it was known that sunlight kills bacteria, strengthens the immune system, produces vitamin D and helps people to recover. Places like the Paimio Sanatorium in Finland were architectural reveries for light and air.
Then it all disappeared almost overnight.
Why? Because of antibiotics, of course – but not only that. As soon as Rockefeller medicine took over, everything natural was marginalised. Sunlight could not be patented, there is no profit to be made in free healing. So sunlight was suddenly categorised as dangerous. Suddenly the sun was supposed to cause cancer instead of curing diseases… Hospitals no longer had fully openable windows, no balconies, no fresh air… just sealed cubes and artificial light.
Fortunately, many of us still know that sunlight works. Light therapy never really died, it was just renamed, pharmaceutically alienated and now comes with price tags. The “biohacking” grifters in Silicon Valley now call it “red light therapy” and sell it for thousands. The same sun, just in a different box.
Some may not believe it, but there are numerous historical records showing that sun decks were once standard in US and European hospitals. They successfully treated tuberculosis, rickets, skin diseases, etc. with sunlight before antibiotics were available – until Rockefeller-funded medicine pushed out anything that couldn’t be monetised.
Today, modern hospitals are just high-tech tombs: no air, no light, just pharmaceuticals and machines.
So ask yourself: if sunlight saved lives 100 years ago… why is it no longer used today and why do we endeavour to dim it chemically?
Photo at top: Berck Sur Mer/France
