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Spending a large part of the day under direct sunlight (e.g., working in a farm), is known to paradoxically reduce the risk of skin cancer; whereas occasional e
by copperx 8y ago
Spending a large part of the day under direct sunlight (e.g., working in a farm), is known to paradoxically reduce the risk of skin cancer; whereas occasional exposure (e.g., working at a desk job and then sunbathing in Cancun) greatly increases the risk.
Perhaps we're not overthinking it. Maybe there are complex processes that we don't yet understand.
- User23 8y agoThis phenomenon has been well known for almost all of history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridatism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridatism https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK349158/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK349158/
- ejstronge 8y agoThis is interesting - do you have a source for this?