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[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago

Scientific American offering up one data point as a miracle cure for a whole range of conditions. But it's not even selling sunlight as the cure, which is implied by the title, but artificial light paid for by your insurance.

This is trash.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

Well this is certainly shocking since most of the drugs given to autoimmune patients are in classes that raise cancer risks by multitudes, and prohibit patients from exposure to direct sunlight. Same with chemo patients.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

The article talks about "Ultraviolet (UV) light boxes, which emit only a narrow bandwidth of light that is not linked to skin cancer," so it's possible the UV treatment and the drugs can be combined.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Is sun sensitivity just a sideeffect or how the drug intrinsically works?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

The drugs every autoimmune patient are given for the most part have very specific warnings about staying out of the sun. That's the irony.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I know, I've tried many of them :).

Its a a pretty common side effect for lots of meds though, so I didn't really see the irony. I was wondering if it was more than just a side effect.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

No, it's specific to classes of drugs that are prescribed to autoimmune patients because they work by embedding themselves in the renal system for long termeasueed release. It's not a general think for most medications at all.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Okay, good to know. Doxycycline and some antibiotics have sun sensitivity, same reason?

Edit: list of a bunch of medicines with sun sensitivity effects: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/special-features/sun-and-your-medicine

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No. Not even close.

https://www.arthritisresearch.ca/sun-exposure-medications-and-rheumatoid-arthritis/

https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update/methotrexate-advise-patients-to-take-precautions-in-the-sun-to-avoid-photosensitivity-reactions

https://www.drugs.com/sfx/leflunomide-side-effects.html

https://www.drugs.com/sfx/sulfasalazine-side-effects.html

These are the top 3 drugs immediately prescribed to any patients that are thought to need immunotherapy. MS, RA, PA...etc. Everything from Lupus to Alopecia. These drugs increase cancer risk of any soft tissue type by 200% at a minimum individually, and more so for dermal types by sun exposure.

The irony is in prescribing such drugs and then having a study that says the thing that will accelerate your cancer risk may be beneficial.

Doxycycline is taken by a large portion of the human population, and I believe the worst they may expect is less melanin production. They'll get a sunburn faster than expected.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

So we're back to sticking UV flashlights up our asses? Nice

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

I never stopped. my colon is tanned as fuck now

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Speed running colon cancer

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

you mean "reinforcing my colon with extra tissue"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Maybe it's like a fridge? You open the door and the light shines. You close the door and, well, cavity goes dark again.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

That's a really promising idea but the article only presents one use case....

Also it's hard not to meme this. Like "what else will they think of? Touching grass..."

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Artificial grass. The headline says sunlight but the contents are all about artificial light. So it would need to be fake grass to be consistent

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Natural sun exposure is good for our health in many ways and it was proven years ago. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joim.12496

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I am actually so happy that you posted this information!

I have been a lifetime sufferer of really bad psoriasis... I've worked heavily with my dermatologist, who is wonderful!

We've had the very frank conversation that yes technically no sun exposure is the right move from a skin cancer standpoint... But that requires you to ignore all the deleterious effects of getting insufficient sun in other aspects of our body health.

That is to say, it's being shown that humans need a shitload of sun to stay healthy! The whole "no amount of sun is healthy" concept is a massive lie at worst, and a phenomenally myopic view at best

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

There are some risks involved. But there are much more benefits. I found this study from this video, where all of it is explained in details:

https://youtu.be/MLBmO5LJqmA

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The natural sun isnt the same as it once was. We fucked up the atmosphere.

Edit: downvoted? On the science Lemmy? Wow, .world really is anti science trash now?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

It's because of your pointless off topic attempt at getting virtue points.

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