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Note: preventing photo aging by limiting exposure to UV, is currently the single biggest thing you can do to slow [an aspect of] visible aging.

tasty_freeze 2y ago
I'm 60, and from mostly Irish descent -- meaning I burn easily and don't really tan much. I've never been a beach-goer/sun-bather. The sun I get is just incidental to mowing the lawn, walking the dog, etc. The skin on my arms looks like a typical 60 year old -- spotted, thin, little elasticity. But lift up my sleeve and the skin of my upper arm and shoulder look like that of a 20 year old. My torso skin is young too, but it is weird to demonstrate that to young people.
- deepfriedchokes 2y ago
  Ben Franklin said about the same of older women! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing_a_Mistress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing...
slothtrop 2y ago
Isn't sunscreen use enough?
- the__alchemist 2y ago
  It can be.
- lucius_verus 2y ago
  Very few people use the recommended amount of sunscreen (it's more than you think) and even when you do, no sunscreen blocks 100% of the photo-aging UV energy that hits your skin (note: still wear sunscreen - absorbing 5 or 10% is better than 100% of the radiation you would otherwise absorb). This also means that (contrary to what weird sunscreen-truthers will tell you) wearing sufficient sunscreen does not prevent you from producing vitamin D - sunscreen is not the same as never seeing the sun.
  - slothtrop 2y ago
    Well by extension, you're still exposed to diffuse UV indirectly if you get natural light.
qingcharles 2y ago
I recently went 10 years without seeing the sun, and I definitely think it had an anti-aging effect on my skin. I worry about what aging effects it had inside my body, though, being without for so long.
- trallnag 2y ago
  10 years, how?
  - qingcharles 2y ago
    Jail :( No windows. Lots of county jails in the USA have no windows or very tiny windows, or fake windows, because they are inside cities and they don't want people looking in or out.

tasty_freeze 2y ago

I'm 60, and from mostly Irish descent -- meaning I burn easily and don't really tan much. I've never been a beach-goer/sun-bather. The sun I get is just incidental to mowing the lawn, walking the dog, etc. The skin on my arms looks like a typical 60 year old -- spotted, thin, little elasticity. But lift up my sleeve and the skin of my upper arm and shoulder look like that of a 20 year old. My torso skin is young too, but it is weird to demonstrate that to young people.

deepfriedchokes 2y ago
Ben Franklin said about the same of older women! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing_a_Mistress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing...

slothtrop 2y ago

Isn't sunscreen use enough?

the__alchemist 2y ago
It can be.
lucius_verus 2y ago
Very few people use the recommended amount of sunscreen (it's more than you think) and even when you do, no sunscreen blocks 100% of the photo-aging UV energy that hits your skin (note: still wear sunscreen - absorbing 5 or 10% is better than 100% of the radiation you would otherwise absorb). This also means that (contrary to what weird sunscreen-truthers will tell you) wearing sufficient sunscreen does not prevent you from producing vitamin D - sunscreen is not the same as never seeing the sun.
- slothtrop 2y ago
  Well by extension, you're still exposed to diffuse UV indirectly if you get natural light.

qingcharles 2y ago

I recently went 10 years without seeing the sun, and I definitely think it had an anti-aging effect on my skin. I worry about what aging effects it had inside my body, though, being without for so long.

trallnag 2y ago
10 years, how?
- qingcharles 2y ago
  Jail :( No windows. Lots of county jails in the USA have no windows or very tiny windows, or fake windows, because they are inside cities and they don't want people looking in or out.