alt Hacker NewsAbout 5 minutes of sunlight exposure is the maximum amount you can absorb and use to make vitimin D. Everything after that point is harmful radiation.
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solid_fuel • yesterday at 10:41 PM
Don't bother quoting facts to these guys. We're being governed by people who make decisions based on their feelings, not material reality.
pstuart • today at 1:05 AM
It's not just vitamin D, it's other things too (e.g., NO -- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10539323/).
But yes, one can have too much of a good thing in this regard.
Mostly right, but only for light skin (and depends on the month and the latitude) (Table 1, Table 3). Dark skin usually needs 10-15 minutes (Table 2), and even 20 minutes for the darkest skin (Table 4). https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16101489