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I just walk outdoors.

Nude? :) I do think getting a bit of sun everywhere has to enhance the benefits. Thus my solution.

I also walk a lot when I can and weather allows. I started walking with a weighted vest occasionally and it was like my body went into some kind of good shock. I was surprised how little soreness or fatigue I felt even the first time, after a two hour walk wearing 20 lbs. And the physical energy boost was dramatic. I switched to 40 lbs the second time and since.

> I do think getting a bit of sun everywhere has to enhance the benefit

Why? This is not how we naturally insolate.

I’m not saying you’re wrong. Just that the status quo is different parts of your body getting sun each day. You’re not replicating that, which places the burden of evidence on you.

I am not making a scientific claim, or advising people. Just describing a personal judgement call and it’s informal reasoning.

There isn’t any burden for me to carry here.

Nor am I concerned by your apostate heretical state of disbelief. The persecution only confirms the holiness of my cause.

Disclaimer: My opinions are simply my own, and do not, in any way, reflect the views of my past or future selves, beyond a five minute interval.

There are tan-thru clothes, if you want to be serious about it.

Depends where you live but where I am it's not unacceptable to go for a run in essentially swim wear so you'd be sunning not much less than what you'd get in a public tanning salon

Sure! Walk out of the sauna, over the garden, down the dock, then jump into the lake for a naked swim.

Do that daily for about four weeks, come rain or shine, whilst enjoying your summer vacation.

Of course that probably doesn't work for every country, but here in Finland it's normal enough. Too bad I'm a pale-skinned redhead, covered in freckles, and I get burned if I'm not too careful.

I too have played My Summer Car

I would love to live like that.

This isn't super useful for UV exposure in winter, due to low angle of the sun, clouds, and of course clothing.

I just take vitamins if needed, saves time and no cancer.

The tricky part is defining "needed".

After all, supplements are also artificial compounds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33584011

If you know something everyone else doesn't, it would be great to see your paper describing how you do that and demonstrating efficacy. So far, the evidence seems to suggest it's not sufficient: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X2...

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