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The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer

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279 points petethomas | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 04:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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jrpt ◴[19 Sep 25 19:23 UTC] No.45305378[source]▶
I would like to know how regular sunlight compares to the combination of vitamin D supplementation and red light therapy. If you do both of those, is that equivalent or better since it doesn't have any damaging effects of the sun?
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1. mylifeandtimes ◴[19 Sep 25 22:13 UTC] No.45307353[source]▶
something to think about here: Your body synthesizes vitamin D. That chemical reaction may have side-products which are not found in the supplements.

Biology is complex.