Sunlight may just be one of the best gifts that you can receive daily in life for free, provided that you don’t take too much of it. One of the best-known benefits of sunlight is that it helps us synthesize vitamin D, which helps us in maintaining enough calcium levels (calcium homeostasis) as well as skeletal integrity. The vitamin also helps in brain development. Aside from the sunlight triggering the vitamin D synthesis in the human body, it also helps in cancer prevention, as well as in treating several skin conditions. Now, new benefits from sunlight have been suggested: it helps people sleep more at night, and it also helps them perform better on cognitive tests.
Check out the study over at MedicalXpress.
(Image Credit: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2020). DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17093219)