Nicole Shanahan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vice presidential running mate, in 2023 said she would love to fund research on how sunlight could extend women’s reproductive years:
“What I would like to do and try out is funding clinical trials that truly are for interventions that cost no money. And one of those is sunlight. I'm not sure that there has been a really thorough like mitochondrial respiration study on the effects of two hours of morning sunlight on reproductive health. I would love to fund something like that,” Shanahan said at a panel last year with the National Academy of Medicine, to which she had previously donated $100 million, according to POLITICO.
“Yeah, let’s do it,” she said after her statement was met with some chuckles. “An employer benefit of two hours out of the work day to be outside under the direct sunlight — I just have an intuition that could be interesting and maybe work and help. I don't know. You tell me. You guys are the experts.”POLITICO reported on the comments Thursday.
Shanahan has advocated in the past for lengthening women’s reproductive window and funded research on methods to boost fertility. But she has also attacked in vitro fertilization as “one of the biggest lies that’s being told about women’s health today.”
