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Benefits & Risks of UV Radiation & Sunlight, Skin Health, Vitamin D, Nitric Oxide, Evolution of Skin Color | Richard Weller | 104

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The Role of Sunlight in the Immune System

There's almost a kind of line in research between observational studies, which set questions and then an intervention. And we currently here are looking at the effects of UV on systemic immune and inflammatory markers. Dermatologists use UV to treat inflammatory skin disease, psoracic and eczema. My suspicion is that it's not just skin inflammation but systemic inflammation, which may well be modified by UV.

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