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		nkmnz 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a... But wouldn’t this imply that optimizing the tanning bed properties for vitamin D production is worse than looking for as-close-to-sun-like sources of light?

makeitdouble 27 days ago [–]

Yes, there's much more to sunlight than vitamin D so a more generic "almost the sun" source of light could be overall better.

Even just for vitamins, many precursor are found related to light: https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2023-4698

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