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 UV in the Evolution of Pale Skin
There's this connection between UV and vitamin D and the skin that pretty much everyone has heard about. How much is being produced? Is it do we get most of it from the diet? Most of it from skin production? Like how does that break down? Well, a lot of it, most of it depends where you live. If you live in if you live in Scotland in in winter, none of it's coming from sun. If you living in Florida, most ofIt's coming from the sun. So it can go in an other direction, depending on environment. And the other thing that matters is skin color. What we know is that if you have darker skin, you need
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