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Can sun exposure improve your mood?

Probably not a shocking finding that a recent pilot study found that sun exposure actually

can reduce depression.

And I'd like to share the result with you just so you better understand how important it is to find time to be in the sun on a weekly basis.

I'll put the abstract up here on the screen, the study entitled,

Sun Exposure and Behavioral Activation for Hypovitaminosis D and Depression, a controlled pilot study.

And now let's look at some of the parameters and the findings of this study in brief,

just to support the finding that when we take a group of individuals who are depressed,

half of them go on a waiting list and half undergoing intervention of obtaining time in the sun,

the sun group sees an improvement in their mood.

So specifically to quote here, those participants who were severely vitamin D deficient

and experiencing clinically significant depression were randomly allocated to either 12 weeks

of behavioral activation emphasizing safe sun exposure, a group of 10, or a waiting list control group, another group of 10.

A key point there is the safe sun exposure.

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