Is Avoiding the Sun as Risky as Smoking? With Professor Pelle Lindqvist
Professor Pelle Lindqvist has followed 29,000 Swedish women for 34 years. His conclusion: in northern countries, avoiding the sun may be as risky as smoking.
About this episode
Almost every guest on Sunlight Matters has quoted Pelle Lindqvist's work. In this episode Dave finally talks to the man himself.
Pelle is a professor and senior consultant at Södersjukhuset, Stockholm's South General Hospital. An obstetrician who specialises in blood clots, he has spent the past 20 years researching a question most of medicine stopped asking in the 1980s: what are the benefits of sun exposure?
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