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home:othertreatments:sunshine [09.20.2011] – [Notes and comments] paulalberthome:othertreatments:sunshine [10.17.2011] – [Sunlight can be immunosuppressive] paulalbert
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 A 2011 study by Damian //et al.// concluded that exposure to sunlight even at suberythemal levels – sunlight which doesn't cause redness – is "profoundly immunosuppressive" in humans and that it is the immune-suppressive effects of sunlight that play a central role in skin carcinogenesis.(({{pubmed>long:21375518}})) A 2011 study by Damian //et al.// concluded that exposure to sunlight even at suberythemal levels – sunlight which doesn't cause redness – is "profoundly immunosuppressive" in humans and that it is the immune-suppressive effects of sunlight that play a central role in skin carcinogenesis.(({{pubmed>long:21375518}}))
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 +Certain support for this study comes from a 2011 Australian paper that found that 8 week old mice given a single exposure of ultraviolet radiation had suppressed immunity.(({{pubmed>long:21243005}}))
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