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You're not going to get skin cancer in the 10-30 minutes of sun exposure required for daily vitamin D. Stop clinging to that as a reason to shelter indoors and

• pdonis 10y ago
  > You're not going to get skin cancer in the 10-30 minutes of sun exposure required for daily vitamin D. Different people's skins have different sensitivities. Also, skin cancer doesn't happen in one exposure; the risk builds up over time. > Stop clinging to that as a reason to shelter indoors and replace life with vitamins and manufactured meals. Stop making assumptions. I personally have dark enough skin that a reasonable amount of sun exposure doesn't bother me. But that apparently didn't stop my vitamin D from being low (see my post elsewhere in this thread), so evidently I am dealing with the other thing I mentioned, the fact that your body's ability to make vitamin D from sun exposure decreases with age. So I started taking a supplement. Would you rather I just let my vitamin D be too low no matter how much sun I got?