Welcome to another episode of the Eat to Live podcast. I'm here with my dad, Dr. Furman.

Hi, great to be here. I'm here with my daughter, Jana. And the topic we are going to be talking about today is about sunshine, sunscreen, vitamin D, and calcium. Is that right, Dr. Furman? And osteoporosis. Oh, and osteoporosis. So that's a lot of topics, but they're kind of intertwined and all go together. Right.

They're all wrapped together.

So let's talk about it's summer, it's July, people are loving sunbathing right now, being outside,

summer's in the air, just makes people feel a certain type of way.

So is sunshine good for us? Should we be out in the sun?

Well, that's really what I wanted to discuss this idea that some sun is very healthy and good for us and too much sun can be harmful.

And how do we weigh how much sun to get, what time a day, how much to get?

I want people to be very clear with the recommendations so they can maximize their lifespan. What I'm saying here is pretty something unusual. I'm saying that we can maximize

our lifespan, add to our longevity, add to our immune system, add to the anti-cancer benefits of a

healthy diet with the proper use of sunshine. Okay. So I mean, typically when you're thinking about

healthy eating a healthy lifestyle, you're not like, oh, and sunshine. Yeah, exactly I mean, typically when you're thinking about healthy eating, a healthy lifestyle,

you're not like, oh, in sunshine.

Yeah, exactly.

But you're saying it really does matter.

Yeah, it does.

It can help a lot.

And we're saying that like the light dark cycles, the circadian rhythms, play just like food

rhythms.

You don't want to eat before bedtime.

You don't want to get the right sunshine in relation to your food and relation to your life as all matters.

So the first thing I'm saying is that the infrared light is most

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