In a controlled setting, sunblock will always affect vitamin D production, whether you expose for 20 minutes or 60 minutes or 120 minutes, or whether you test 37 subjects or 370 subjects. The reason is that…
The reason melanoma incidence is increasing is because of a "diagnostic drift," similar to what we see in the rise of psychological disorders: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19519827 We are more routinely getting…
That's not true. In the controlled setting, sunscreen affects ability of skin to make vitamin D, by about half: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22512875 Sunbathers who use sunscreen tend to not have lower vitamin D…
The researcher's comment IS false based on the information we have available to date. We do not know if fish oil is worthless or not. The researcher implicitly states that he knows fish oil is worthless based on the…
There is a 20,000 person 2x2 randomized controlled trial underway right now looking at how useful fish oil is in preventing disease: http://www.vitalstudy.org Results will be out around 2017-2020. An observational study…
In a controlled setting, sunblock will always affect vitamin D production, whether you expose for 20 minutes or 60 minutes or 120 minutes, or whether you test 37 subjects or 370 subjects. The reason is that…
The reason melanoma incidence is increasing is because of a "diagnostic drift," similar to what we see in the rise of psychological disorders: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19519827 We are more routinely getting…
That's not true. In the controlled setting, sunscreen affects ability of skin to make vitamin D, by about half: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22512875 Sunbathers who use sunscreen tend to not have lower vitamin D…
The researcher's comment IS false based on the information we have available to date. We do not know if fish oil is worthless or not. The researcher implicitly states that he knows fish oil is worthless based on the…
There is a 20,000 person 2x2 randomized controlled trial underway right now looking at how useful fish oil is in preventing disease: http://www.vitalstudy.org Results will be out around 2017-2020. An observational study…