>>11330610Benefits of sunshine
* Vitamin D - hard/impossible to get enough without sunshine, important for immune function and bone development and maintenance, and for avoiding depression.
* Cholesterol sulphate production, important in stabilizing membranes
* Nitric oxide production for regulating blood pressure
* Endorphans for mood and avoiding depression
* Suppressing melatonin during the day for alertness and for later good sleep
Probably many more things as yet unknown.
People with skin cancers have longer live expectancy than matched controls without skin cancers. Yet people are paranoid about skin cancer and miss all the other benefits of the sun/