Benefits & Risks of UV Radiation & Sunlight, Skin Health, Vitamin D, Nitric Oxide, Evolution of Skin Color | Richard Weller | 104
Mind & Matter
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The Effects of UV on the Skin
The science for a long time was NO, that's fantastic stuff, oxidised nitrate. Well, we then found big stores of nitrates and nitrites in the skin. And I could also remember from my internal medicine days and about the seasonal changes in blood pressure. So all of those sorts came together to show that sunlight can indeed release nitric oxide from these stores in the skin and lower blood pressure. We showed that actually sunlight falling in the skin does indeed mobilize. It dilates your arteries. The Aussies are as lazy and bone idol as the Brits. They are no better or more loose superior. But they live three years longer than us. This is nothing to
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