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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 Risks and Benefits of Sunlight for Skin Health

Dr. Richard Weller: As a physician, analysis of risk benefit ratios is what I do every day. And we've completely forgotten that with sunlight because when we talk about sunlight, all we talk about is risks. We forget our core physician skill, which is to balance risks and benefits. The research for the last 100 years has been on the risks of sunlight without stepping back to consider the benefits. That's a very, that's poor medicines, and I think we should be rebalancing things to look at it in the hole.

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