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It sounds like your argument is now: "I like the look of being tanned and don't want to be burdened by the need to regularly apply lotion while living my outdoor lifestyle".

Okay, well that's your choice; but don't latch on to some argument about it being healthy, unless you're willing to endure scrutiny.

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I laughed when the Dr in the article recommended sunscreen plus blood pressure pills. The confidence in narrow pharmaceutical interventions is absurd when we keep realizing that we don't understand how all the systems in the body are interconnected.

Especially given that the very first paragraph of the article says that most vitamin supplements appear to be ineffective.

Sure, the article does say that and it even provides a paper to backup its claim.

However, subsequently a meta-analysis (including that same paper) was published that found:

"Vitamin D [supplementation] was associated with significant reduction of cancer-related mortality compared with placebo [...]. Compared with placebo, Vitamin D was not associated with significant reduction of cancer incidence [...]".

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/20009666.2019.17...

He probably doesn't get out much.

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