Sunlight deficiency
Jan. 25th, 2019 02:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jadislefeuVia umadoshi, Is Sunscreen the new Margarine?, which is very interesting to me as someone with a mother compulsively avoidant of the sun.
I spent loads of time outside in the sun as a kid, because I was on swim team, and I was lazier about sunscreen than my mother wanted me to be, though I only got a significant sunburn once, at the very beginning of one summer before I'd built up a tan. I turned into a hermit and moved to a much less sunny state (at a higher latitude), and my health has... pretty definitely been worse since. (And I got another, worse sunburn here, by being outside in a pool in the middle of the day with no tan for six hours and forgetting to reapply sunscreen and ended up blistering, I do not recommend the experience.)
And I have a diagnosed vitamin D deficiency. And I find myself writing wistful poetry about missing the way the sun feels in summer in the desert. I need to get outside more. Probably a vicious cycle--feel terrible, don't leave the house, feel worse, less inclined to leave the house.
Not that I can get much sun exposure right now, it's cold as fuck and mostly cloudy. (And right now it's the middle of the night--the ongoing disaster known as my "sleep schedule" certainly doesn't help either.)
umadoshi, Is Sunscreen the new Margarine?, which is very interesting to me as someone with a mother compulsively avoidant of the sun. I spent loads of time outside in the sun as a kid, because I was on swim team, and I was lazier about sunscreen than my mother wanted me to be, though I only got a significant sunburn once, at the very beginning of one summer before I'd built up a tan. I turned into a hermit and moved to a much less sunny state (at a higher latitude), and my health has... pretty definitely been worse since. (And I got another, worse sunburn here, by being outside in a pool in the middle of the day with no tan for six hours and forgetting to reapply sunscreen and ended up blistering, I do not recommend the experience.)
And I have a diagnosed vitamin D deficiency. And I find myself writing wistful poetry about missing the way the sun feels in summer in the desert. I need to get outside more. Probably a vicious cycle--feel terrible, don't leave the house, feel worse, less inclined to leave the house.
Not that I can get much sun exposure right now, it's cold as fuck and mostly cloudy. (And right now it's the middle of the night--the ongoing disaster known as my "sleep schedule" certainly doesn't help either.)
