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To: Ellendra

“Cholesterol is what the skin uses to make vitamin D.”

I’m aware of that (zoology major, chemistry minor, postgraduate research in molecular biology and genetics). What I don’t understand is his statement that “20 minutes in the summer sun is enough to deplete all the cholesterol in the skin necessary for the production of D”, and then he goes on to encourage more sun exposure. That’s contradictory.


20 posted on 03/05/2010 11:09:26 AM PST by Magic Fingers
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To: Magic Fingers

Ah, ok.


34 posted on 03/05/2010 12:54:11 PM PST by Ellendra (Can't starve us out, and you can't make us run. . . -Hank Jr.)
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