{"id":6202,"date":"2011-06-08T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/index.php\/are-derms-lying-about-vitamin-d\/"},"modified":"2011-06-08T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T08:00:21","slug":"are-derms-lying-about-vitamin-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/are-derms-lying-about-vitamin-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Derms Lying About Vitamin D?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u201cIt should be noted that the predominate emission of tanning lamp is in the UVA range, while cutaneous synthesis of vitamin D is only induced by UVB.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> \u2014 Dr. Henry Lim, American Academy of Dermatology Council on Science and Research and chair of dermatology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Mich. How can a past president of American Society for Photobiology and vice president of American Academy of Dermatology make such a misrepresentation?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6203\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"2011-06-08 Derms Lying About Vitamin D copy\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-08-Derms-Lying-About-Vitamin-D-copy.jpg\" alt=\"2011-06-08 Derms Lying About Vitamin D copy\" width=\"285\" height=\"150\" \/>Lim\u2019s comments were part of an article in the May issue of Dermatology World titled, \u201cLet\u2019s Not Call It the Sunshine Vitamin\u201d \u2014 an essay encouraging dermatologists to downplay the fact that vitamin D comes naturally from sun exposure to the skin.<\/p>\n<p>The predominate emission of sun exposure \u2014 the main source of vitamin D \u2014 is UVA. Most sunlamps, like sun exposure, emit about 95 percent UVA and 5 percent UVB in the UV range. \u201cLim\u2019s comment can only be taken to suggest that sunbeds are not an efficient source of vitamin D, which is factually inaccurate,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cSunbeds can trigger the production of more than 1,000 IU of vitamin D per minute in the skin. Anyone with Lim\u2019s background has to know better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same article goes on to suggest that vitamin D blood levels above 40 ng\/ml might increase one\u2019s risk of cancer mortality \u2014 apparently a statistical outlier from one survey countered by thousands of studies with no explanation of mechanism for such a suggestion. The article also states, \u201cFirst and foremost dermatologists need to counter the message that sunlight is an efficient method of obtaining vitamin D.\u201d The AAD suggests that a brochure for dermatologists on vitamin D will be produced later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt should be noted that the predominate emission of tanning lamp is in the UVA range, while cutaneous synthesis of vitamin D is only induced by UVB.\u201d \u2014 Dr. Henry Lim, American Academy of Dermatology Council on Science and Research and chair of dermatology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Mich. 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How can a past president of American Society for Photobiology and vice president of American Academy of Dermatology make such a misrepresentation? Lim\u2019s comments were part of an article in the May issue of Dermatology World titled, \u201cLet\u2019s Not Call It the Sunshine Vitamin\u201d \u2014 an essay encouraging dermatologists to downplay the fact that vitamin D comes naturally from sun exposure to the skin. The predominate emission of sun exposure \u2014 the main source of vitamin D \u2014 is UVA. Most sunlamps, like sun exposure, emit about 95 percent UVA and 5 percent UVB in the UV range. \u201cLim\u2019s comment can only be taken to suggest that sunbeds are not an efficient source of vitamin D, which is factually inaccurate,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cSunbeds can trigger the production of more than 1,000 IU of vitamin D per minute in the skin. Anyone with Lim\u2019s background has to know better.\u201d The same article goes on to suggest that vitamin D blood levels above 40 ng\/ml might increase one\u2019s risk of cancer mortality \u2014 apparently a statistical outlier from one survey countered by thousands of studies with no explanation of mechanism for such a suggestion. 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How can a past president of American Society for Photobiology and vice president of American Academy of Dermatology make such a misrepresentation? Lim\u2019s comments were part of an article in the May issue of Dermatology World titled, \u201cLet\u2019s Not Call It the Sunshine Vitamin\u201d \u2014 an essay encouraging dermatologists to downplay the fact that vitamin D comes naturally from sun exposure to the skin. The predominate emission of sun exposure \u2014 the main source of vitamin D \u2014 is UVA. Most sunlamps, like sun exposure, emit about 95 percent UVA and 5 percent UVB in the UV range. \u201cLim\u2019s comment can only be taken to suggest that sunbeds are not an efficient source of vitamin D, which is factually inaccurate,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cSunbeds can trigger the production of more than 1,000 IU of vitamin D per minute in the skin. Anyone with Lim\u2019s background has to know better.\u201d The same article goes on to suggest that vitamin D blood levels above 40 ng\/ml might increase one\u2019s risk of cancer mortality \u2014 apparently a statistical outlier from one survey countered by thousands of studies with no explanation of mechanism for such a suggestion. The article also states, \u201cFirst and foremost dermatologists need to counter the message that sunlight is an efficient method of obtaining vitamin D.\u201d The AAD suggests that a brochure for dermatologists on vitamin D will be produced later this year.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/are-derms-lying-about-vitamin-d\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/are-derms-lying-about-vitamin-d\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/are-derms-lying-about-vitamin-d\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-08-Derms-Lying-About-Vitamin-D-copy.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-08-Derms-Lying-About-Vitamin-D-copy.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/are-derms-lying-about-vitamin-d\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Are Derms Lying About Vitamin D?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/","name":"Smart Tan News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization","name":"Smart Tan","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png","width":500,"height":164,"caption":"Smart Tan"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan","https:\/\/x.com\/SmartTan"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4191f4b1131c0a37b4fd39f876771e7b","name":"smarttan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"smarttan"},"url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/author\/smarttan\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}