I have trained my own skin to adapt to the sun. Last summer I worked up to 2 hrs straight at UV12 without burning or sunspots and I’m caucasian + 25% Irish. There is more nuance to sun damaging skin. Do you know what POMC is? This will give you a great intro to the biophysics that I’m talking about: https://youtu.be/d7qjh4BIGbc?si=pTlUGWL-Dlf00YKz
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I will watch some of it
I appreciate your open mind
Before watching the video, there's something I don't really understand. so according to google there are 12 million doctors worldwide. I would say 99.99% probably agree on core medical principales. BUT some people choose to listen to the minuscule percentage of doctors who really sound untrustworthy (I even checked this doctor's linkedIn profile). These 'doctors' seem to be pushing these bizarre theories likely for some kind of personal gain. going on podcasts and stuff like that. I think it's really unfortunate that people have such a trust issue with the medical community.
Covid ruined trust in the medical community for a long time. J&J, Pfizer, and Purdue also wrecked trust in your pharma world.
Back to Jack, focus on the message instead of the messenger. Bizarre to you does not mean wrong. I agree this is fringe stuff but I think that is because academia and “big medicine” move painfully slow. And painfully unethically. By the time MDs finish their residency, I’d bet more than half the stuff they’ve learned is either wrong or not even close to the full story.
I think there's no point in going into the subject of covid which seems to be a sensitive topic for some people, but in general I really don't understand the critisim of doctors and the medical community's handling of it. They're just normal people who got vaccinated like everyone else. If there's a problem with the vaccine they and their families will be affected too.
It's not that medicine is moving slowly, I just don't think there are any major discoveries that would have a huge impact. I think they are mainly working on protocols and guidelines for the management of pathologies. And big pharma is mainly working on targeted therapies in the form of antibodies that will target specific proteins in tumors.
I'm still watching the video I will tell what I think about it tomorrow.
Alright I watched 75% of the video and I really made an effort to follow along but I really think there is a lot of nonsense in it. Maybe some parts are legit but since he also says a lot of nonsense you can't really tell the difference between what's real and what's false. He throws some statements out there with such conviction making it seem like real scientific facts supported by real scientific evidence but he probably just made them up. For example, he says Blue light makes vitamin A, Vitamin A is yellow, Blue light makes you fat.. Especially the last point makes no sense at all. Saying that UV rays affect people's weight is just ridiculous. I personally avoid the sun like the plague and I weigh less than 50 kg.
I found these articles that you could read a little bit about the subject, at least there is all the bibliography:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37237866/
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3921/10/6/920
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5905393/
This guy is definitely overstating the role of UV rays and completely ignoring the damage the sun does to your skin.
So, going back to the story of training your skin to the sun, it's the same thing, it's not supported by scientific evidence. Maybe your skin tolerates the sun better or you feel like you get fewer sunburns, but the damage at the cellular level is there.
you're really don't want to wake up one day with your skin completely damaged and you'll feel like you look 15 years older than people your age and maybe you'll think, yeah maybe it wasn't a good idea to listen to a charlatan.
So if the quantum biology is over your head on first pass, it’s nonsense? jfc… so much for my optimism for your open mind. Quite the scientist you are…
He’s far from the first to work and research in these frameworks. He connects all the dots from blue light to obesity and the Vitamin A stuff in his expansive amount of accessible content. But you already wrote it off after only 2 hours so it’s worthless to continue this conversation.
honestly yes i think i was open minded in the sense that i researched some of the concepts he talked about and that I learned a few new things from the articles. but linking obesity to blue rays and not diet and exercise it's a concept i couldn't agree with and i don't think it has anything to do with having a scientific background probably 99.99% of people would think the same. 🙂