{"id":1190,"date":"2020-04-06T15:59:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T19:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lee-cornell.com\/blog\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2020-04-06T15:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T19:59:51","slug":"immune-system-tips-8-sunlight-and-your-immune-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lee-cornell.com\/blog\/immune-system-tips-8-sunlight-and-your-immune-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Immune System Tips #8 -Sunlight and Your Immune System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When you were younger, you probably were told by your parents to go spend some time in the sun, because it\u2019s good for you. We know now that they were very much correct – sunlight has a wide variety of benefits to us, and if you don\u2019t get enough, you\u2019re actually putting yourself at higher risk of getting sick and being generally unhappy compared to those who go outside more often. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the important parts of getting some sun is that sunlight is what drives your body to produce vitamin D, something incredibly important for having healthy bones and a healthy immune system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While vitamin D pills can help supplement low levels, the absolute best way to absorb vitamin D is by being in the sun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having healthy bones means that\nyou\u2019ll have better bone marrow, which is a crucial component of your immune\nsystem since it drives the creation of various blood cells. With weaker bones,\nyou\u2019re more prone to diseases like osteoporosis, which leaves your bones almost\nporous and brittle, making it much easier for them to be fractured. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ll also be more prone to\ngetting certain types of cancer, something that nobody would ever want to get.\nSunlight has also been found to improve your immune system by improving your\nmental state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a very significant\nconnection between your mental health and physical health, especially when it\ncomes to your immune system. If you\u2019re stressed out or depressed, you can get\nsick far easier than you would if you were happy and content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunshine helps boost your mood\nand relieve stress, which of course is a benefit in its own right.\nAdditionally, this helps lift some of the load off of your immune system,\nleaving it to allocate more resources towards fighting off illness instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This helps prevent all kinds of\ndifferent diseases, because poor mental health bogs down your immune system\nacross the board. The thing about sunlight is that you can\u2019t exactly replicate\nit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interior lights or sunlight\ncoming through a window doesn\u2019t have the same benefits. You might see light\nbulbs that are advertised as being the same wavelength as sunlight and things\nlike that, but it doesn\u2019t give you the full benefits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the UV light that comes with genuine sunlight that triggers the production of vitamin D, which gets filtered out through windows and isn\u2019t emitted by light bulbs. In order to get the full benefits of sunlight, you need to actually go out on walks, work on a garden, or do any other kind of activities for a bit outside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When you were younger, you probably were told by your parents to go spend some time in the sun, because it\u2019s good for you. We know now that they were very much correct – sunlight has a wide variety of benefits to us, and if you don\u2019t get enough, you\u2019re actually putting yourself at higher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,25,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lee-cornell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/42430100cc3d618171b8dff79d3ded02.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5EOVe-jc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-cornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-cornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-cornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-cornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-cornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lee-cornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/lee-cornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-cornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-cornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-cornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-cornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}