Or you could... you know go outside.
I know it can be a struggle, but there are a lot of activities you can combine with getting outside and collect health benefits from both.
I know it can be a struggle, but there are a lot of activities you can combine with getting outside and collect health benefits from both.
I seem to remember reading that you don't get much UV light when the sun is below 40 degrees. You don't have to go far north for the sun to be kind of useless in winter.
An interesting side-note, there's a theory that Europeans are so white because the gulf-stream makes it warm enough for farming grains despite being quite far north.. and so you don't get much Vitamin D from the sun all of winter, and you don't get it from your food (like the Inuits do, from eating a lot of fish), so white skin is a "hack" to try to maxize vitamin D production, despite the obvious downsides.
I remember 2 years ago, it was so bad, that local newspapers were celebrating when we finally got our first glimpse of sun (for a couple of hours) for that year on some day in late January (like 24th or 25th). It literally took almost an entire month to see the sun for the first time that year.
I can believe it. Two years ago we had measurable rain every single day from December until May. I still managed to get outside and ride my bike nearly 4-5 days a week.
Maybe somebody could push a patch to turn down the average fall-winter-spring rainfall in my area?