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Sunlight Boosts Mood, Immunity, and Energy, but When Is the Best Time to Get It?

How to maximize the benefits while minimizing the risks.
Sunlight Boosts Mood, Immunity, and Energy, but When Is the Best Time to Get It?
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Brendon Fallon
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Emily Allison
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Many people avoid the sun in the name of skin cancer prevention. However, in doing so, they may be missing out on an array of health benefits, including improved mental health, enhanced immune function, and protection against chronic diseases, such as cancer.
How we reap the benefits, while minimizing the risks, begins with understanding how sunlight’s healing potency is delivered to the cells of our body. Having treated critically ill COVID-19 patients with sunlight, critical care, and internal medicine specialist Dr. Roger Seheult provides insights into this important principle.

How Sunlight Helps Prevent Disease

Seheult says that sun exposure can potentially lower cancer risk. He points to a study in Sweden, which followed 30,000 women for 20 years, and found that those who avoided sun exposure had twice the mortality rate of the women who had the highest sun exposure.
Brendon Fallon is a former reporter and photographer with The Epoch Times. He is the host and executive producer of NTD's "Vital Signs," a health show that zooms in on the important matters of health that come up in everyday life—connecting the dots across the broad canvas of our holistic wellbeing.
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