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Quilotoa @lemmy.ca

2mo ago

Sunlight Might Hold the Key to Treating Autoimmune Diseases

www.scientificamerican.com

Sunlight Might Hold the Key to Treating Autoimmune Diseases

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Scientific American offering up one data point as a miracle cure for a whole range of conditions. But it's not even selling sunlight as the cure, which is implied by the title, but artificial light paid for by your insurance.
This is trash.

Well this is certainly shocking since most of the drugs given to autoimmune patients are in classes that raise cancer risks by multitudes, and prohibit patients from exposure to direct sunlight. Same with chemo patients.
- The article talks about "Ultraviolet (UV) light boxes, which emit only a narrow bandwidth of light that is not linked to skin cancer," so it's possible the UV treatment and the drugs can be combined.
- Is sun sensitivity just a sideeffect or how the drug intrinsically works?
  
  The drugs every autoimmune patient are given for the most part have very specific warnings about staying out of the sun. That's the irony.

So we're back to sticking UV flashlights up our asses? Nice
- I never stopped. my colon is tanned as fuck now
  
  Speed running colon cancer
  
  Maybe it's like a fridge? You open the door and the light shines. You close the door and, well, cavity goes dark again.

That's a really promising idea but the article only presents one use case....
Also it's hard not to meme this. Like "what else will they think of? Touching grass..."
- Artificial grass. The headline says sunlight but the contents are all about artificial light. So it would need to be fake grass to be consistent

Natural sun exposure is good for our health in many ways and it was proven years ago. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joim.12496
- I am actually so happy that you posted this information!
  I have been a lifetime sufferer of really bad psoriasis... I've worked heavily with my dermatologist, who is wonderful!
  We've had the very frank conversation that yes technically no sun exposure is the right move from a skin cancer standpoint... But that requires you to ignore all the deleterious effects of getting insufficient sun in other aspects of our body health.
  That is to say, it's being shown that humans need a shitload of sun to stay healthy! The whole "no amount of sun is healthy" concept is a massive lie at worst, and a phenomenally myopic view at best
  
  There are some risks involved. But there are much more benefits. I found this study from this video, where all of it is explained in details:
  https://youtu.be/MLBmO5LJqmA
- The natural sun isnt the same as it once was. We fucked up the atmosphere.
  Edit: downvoted? On the science Lemmy? Wow, .world really is anti science trash now?
  
  It's because of your pointless off topic attempt at getting virtue points.

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