Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates

Re:Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greate... by hammyhavoc on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @09:05PM (#32160031)

I think how "good" prolonged exposure to direct sunlight is might vary wildly between demographics. I'm of Viking extraction (pale as a ghost). I quite literally get sunburn indoors if I'm not careful, no exaggeration. I can't see that being good in the long-term, especially when my aunt had melanoma.

Following WWII, my gruncle lived in Africa as his skin grafts wouldn't take in the British climate. He was like a patchwork quilt of grafts following his plane being shot down. Most white expats in Africa got nose cancer from the sun eventually. He moved back eventually, but had stayed out of the sun and never got nose cancer.

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Re:Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greate... by foobiekr on Saturday July 30, 2022 @12:38PM (#32288102)

I am pasty white and used to burn very, very easily. Sunscreen every day, burned if I walked in the sun half an hour. When we changed our diets to vaguely keto, I stopped burning. It is super, super weird. YMMV, this is not advice, etc. I offer it only as a fellow "the sun looked at me wrong and I got burned" traveler.

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