Nsima Inyang
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But that's impacting their health negatively because when you and I go out into the same sun, you're gonna absorb way more vitamin D in a 20 minute period than I will.
I might need to spend four to five more times, five more time out in the sun to get that same level for myself because of melanin.
So that means I need to be out in the sun more than you do for my personal health.
But because of a lot of health messaging, even my aunt, she's 100% Nigerian, I was talking to her about this last year, because sunlight came up, and she's a nurse, and she's like, Nsema, you can't be getting out to the sun so much.
You're going to get cancer.
And I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You are a dark skinned black woman.
You need the sun.
You have to be out there way more than some of these folks.
And people got to realize that sun needs are different for different populations.
Totally.
Cheers.
Yes, yes.
And then you look at people who managed to fast travel over the years.
You look at Australia.
The Aboriginal Australians are some of the darkest people on the planet.
Really?
Aboriginal Australians.
The people you see in Australia now and Australians in general- Hold up the picture of an Aboriginal Australian.
some of the people you see in Australia now have the highest incidences of skin cancer in the world because you have fair skin people who are in an area that has high year round UV.