As far as I understand the Microsoft-Band can already measure the amount of UV radiation a person perceives.
If we are lucky that will become the standard for smart watches and we will get a lot of new data about sun exposure.
As far as Vitamin D research goes, a bunch of Quantified Self folks have found that for them taking vitamin D3 in the morning has good effects on sleep while taking it in the evening has bad effects on sleep.
The studies on Vitamin D don’t track timing at all. A bunch of Vitamin D studies likely fail to produce good effects because the Vitamin D is taken at the wrong time.
An app that knows your sleep data and your sun exposure could calculate the amount of Vitamin D that you should take and when you should take it..
There is probably more to sunlight that just vit D and serotonin/melatonin.
As far as I understand the Microsoft-Band can already measure the amount of UV radiation a person perceives. If we are lucky that will become the standard for smart watches and we will get a lot of new data about sun exposure.
That could be huge. It would be interesting if the gov could fund research by something more like kaggle, where they collect a mountain of data, and then they outsource the construction of models that best predict health outcomes. We need to move past simplistic statistics and meta-analysis.
As far as I understand the Microsoft-Band can already measure the amount of UV radiation a person perceives. If we are lucky that will become the standard for smart watches and we will get a lot of new data about sun exposure.
As far as Vitamin D research goes, a bunch of Quantified Self folks have found that for them taking vitamin D3 in the morning has good effects on sleep while taking it in the evening has bad effects on sleep.
The studies on Vitamin D don’t track timing at all. A bunch of Vitamin D studies likely fail to produce good effects because the Vitamin D is taken at the wrong time.
An app that knows your sleep data and your sun exposure could calculate the amount of Vitamin D that you should take and when you should take it..
Unfortunately it seems like sunlight causes wrinkles
That could be huge. It would be interesting if the gov could fund research by something more like kaggle, where they collect a mountain of data, and then they outsource the construction of models that best predict health outcomes. We need to move past simplistic statistics and meta-analysis.