“I’m a dermatologist. My day job is telling people ‘You’ve got skin cancer. It’s caused by sunlight. Don’t go into the sun.’ I actually think a far-more-important message is that there are benefits as well as risks to sunlight. Yes, sunlight is the major alterable risk factor for skin cancer. But deaths from heart disease are 100 times higher than deaths from skin cancer. And I think that we need to be more aware of, and we need to find the risk benefit ratio: How much sunlight is safe and how can we finesse this best for our general health.” — British Dermatologist and researcher Dr. Richard Weller, whose Ted.com viral video is promoting a new potential benefit of regular UV exposure: natural Nitric Oxide (NO) production in the skin, which some are crediting as a mechanism of why heart disease is less common in sunny climates.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Quote of the week: Derm:UV Benefits More Important than Risks
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“I’m a dermatologist. My day job is telling people ‘You’ve got skin cancer. It’s caused by sunlight. Don’t go into the sun.’ I actually think a far-more-important message is that there are benefits as well as risks to sunlight. Yes, sunlight is the major alterable risk factor for skin cancer. But deaths from heart disease are 100 times higher than deaths from skin cancer. And I think that we need to be more aware of, and we need to find the risk benefit ratio: How much sunlight is safe and how can we finesse this best for our general health.” — British Dermatologist and researcher Dr. Richard Weller, whose Ted.com viral video is promoting a new potential benefit of regular UV exposure: natural Nitric Oxide (NO) production in the skin, which some are crediting as a mechanism of why heart disease is less common in sunny climates.
“I’m a dermatologist. My day job is telling people ‘You’ve got skin cancer. It’s caused by sunlight. Don’t go into the sun.’ I actually think a far-more-important message is that there are benefits as well as risks to sunlight. Yes, sunlight is the major alterable risk factor for skin cancer. But deaths from heart disease are 100 times higher than deaths from skin cancer. And I think that we need to be more aware of, and we need to find the risk benefit ratio: How much sunlight is safe and how can we finesse this best for our general health.” — British Dermatologist and researcher Dr. Richard Weller, whose Ted.com viral video is promoting a new potential benefit of regular UV exposure: natural Nitric Oxide (NO) production in the skin, which some are crediting as a mechanism of why heart disease is less common in sunny climates.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Richard Weller: Could the sun be good for your heart?
From Ted.com:
Our bodies get Vitamin D from the sun, but as dermatologist Richard Weller suggests, sunlight may confer another surprising benefit too. New research by his team shows that nitric oxide, a chemical transmitter stored in huge reserves in the skin, can be released by UV light, to great benefit for blood pressure and the cardiovascular system. What does it mean? Well, it might begin to explain why Scots get sick more than Australians ...
Dermatologist Richard Weller wants to know: Why are Scots so sick?
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