Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D

Re:Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D by manmal on Monday February 25, 2019 @11:38AM (#19246810)

Those side effects can be mitigated or at least reduced by adding extra infrared or red light. Eg sunburns are prevented or greatly reduced by treating with near infrared either before or after UV exposure.

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Re:Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D by pas on Monday February 25, 2019 @03:51PM (#19249341)

Could you explain please how/why IR helps with sunburn? :o

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Re:Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D by manmal on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @08:07AM (#19253911)

There are some interesting papers turning up if you google „pubmed infrared sunburn“. One of these: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00373376

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