let me get this straight
you cook in sun to get skin melanoma and keel over from it
but its a good thing because the globules of vitamin d will fight the same cancer
how about some common sense
i know its crazy
That’s why you take the vitamin form.
Or how about just 12 oz of milk everday?
I think the amount of Vitamin D needed is provided well before you start to get sunburn.
I’m in southern Arizona, so I don’t worry about vitamin D supplements. Sunscreen is more useful...
Over the years, the value and vital need
for sunlight has been marginalized. We
were told we had to stay out of the sun,
it was so dangerous, we’re all sheathed
in sunscreen, live and work indoors behind
tinted windows, drive cars with tinted windows
.. less and less sunlight hit naked skin, which
is how Vit D gets synthesized into our body.
Hence, the need for supplementation.
If you’re in the tropics and get 10-15 mins
a day of sunlight on un-suncreened skin,
you’re getting what you need.
FYI: Melanoma most frequently occurs in none sun exposed areas. The truck driver that hangs his left arm out of the window gets almost no vitamin d benefit after the arm becomes very tan. Black people need 10-20 times as much sun exposure
in north america as do white people in order to get the same
amount of d. It takes 48 hours to get the d3 on your skin absorbed into the blood stream. If you bathe with soap the d goes down the drain.
It’s like Aristotle said.....moderation
The need for Vitamin D trumps the fear of melanoma. If you die from Flu or Pneumonia at 45, you need not worry about skin cancer at 67