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He’s thin and stays out of the sun to reduce damage to the skin. Makes sense that he looks different than most people because of these two things alone. He doe
by jjallen 3y ago
He’s thin and stays out of the sun to reduce damage to the skin. Makes sense that he looks different than most people because of these two things alone.
He does say he’s hungry all of the time. Not sure if I would get used to that.
- hgomersall 3y agoHe stays out of the sun? Interesting to learn what the long term consequences of that will be.
- waihtis 3y agoMy bet is this will be reversed at some point. I get that the metric dictating this is probably "avoid skin damage", but surely the health benefits of, say, 15 minutes of sun exposure dramatically overweighs the risk of skin cancer.
- hgomersall 3y agoThere's a suggestion that the senescent effects of skin aging have a systemic effect. Anti senescents or senescent modulators might counter such an effect and allow the positive benefits of sun with fewer negatives.
- waihtis 3y ago> There's a suggestion that the senescent effects of skin aging have a systemic effect Interesting, will have a look at this, thanks
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoIt's counterintuitive; people need sunlight to generate vitamin D, but it also causes cancer. People in both the middle-east and the north are often vit-D deficient because of a lack of sunlight exposure, in the north because there not being a lot of sunlight, in the warm/dry climates because they dress and live for the weather which means not a lot of skin is exposed.
- meindnoch 3y agoPeople in mediterranian Europe don't dress like that, yet they're nowhere near the top for melanoma incidence: https://www.wcrf.org/cancer-trends/skin-cancer-statistics/ https://www.wcrf.org/cancer-trends/skin-cancer-statistics/ Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy should be at the top of this list, but they aren't.