Could smoking in sunshine actually add to your lifespan? Doctor explains

Healthy amounts of exposure to sunlight have always been credited with several health benefits, including boosting the body's vitamin D supply. In a new video shared by Andrew Huberman, PhD, professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology and host of the Huberman Lab podcast, Dr Roger Seheult, quadruple board-certified MD, pulmonologist and sleep medicine expert, shared incredible data linking the amount of sunlight exposure and lifespan. In the video, captioned, “Sunlight exposure extends lifespan”, Dr Seheult shared the insights from a 20-year-old study conducted in Sweden that divided 29,518 women into three groups: “those that avoided the sun, those that got moderate sun exposure, and those that got a lot of sun exposure.” The researchers found that women who were out in the sun not only had lower all-cause mortality, but they also had lower cardiovascular mortality. Smoking and sunlight exposure Another interesting finding from the study was when they looked at smoking and sun exposure, they found surprising insights. It was actually such a large difference; that the sunlight exposure made that they were able to show that those women in Sweden who were in the study who went out into the sun avidly and smoked had the same mortality as those women who avoided the sun and didn't smoke,” Dr Seheult explained.