Benefits & Risks of UV Radiation & Sunlight, Skin Health, Vitamin D, Nitric Oxide, Evolution of Skin Color | Richard Weller | 104
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The Benefits of Vitamin D for COVID
There's plausible mechanisms there that are candidates for how this could be sunlight per se rather than some indirect effect. At the moment, what we website kind of working on is getting the sort of backing to do a bigger trial on phototherapy to treat COVID. So I suppose you were asking me about infection. And this is really taking us full circle to here. We have an example of an infectious disease which so the data is good for sunlight health in this. Oh, and I should quickly come back to vitamin D. Lots and lots of observational studies showing that people with higher vitamin D levels are less likely to dive COVID.
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