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My view is that sunlight is the confounding effect. Getting substantial exposure to the sun has many health benefits, probably including Covid resiliency, and a
by d_burfoot 6y ago
My view is that sunlight is the confounding effect. Getting substantial exposure to the sun has many health benefits, probably including Covid resiliency, and also increases vitamin D levels in the blood. So vitamin D correlates with, but does not cause, those health benefits.
How is it even plausible that sunlight does not have significant health benefits, given that Europeans evolved to have pale skin because they lived in high latitude environments?
- zamfi 6y ago> How is it even plausible that sunlight does not have significant health benefits, given that Europeans evolved to have pale skin because they lived in high latitude environments? No one is arguing that sunlight doesn’t have benefits. We just don’t know if those benefits are mediated through vitamin D (in which case supplementation could be enough!) or something else.