Rowan Jacobsen
speaker
216 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
Rowan Jacobsen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like, come to California.
Cure all your ills.
Well, that's the question.
Like, did it help?
Maybe it did help in some ways.
Like, they were definitely kooks at a certain level.
The kooky thing was they went too far.
So they would purposefully get sunburns.
Companies like General Electric made these UV lamps.
You could get sunburned in the comfort of your own home.
And everyone bought these lights.
They would hang them over their kids' cribs, right, for health.
So irradiating children as they slept.
So it was truly, truly kooky.
The doctors who were running these heliotherapy clinics up in the Alps, they were noticing that all these patients, not only did their tuberculosis go away,
but they just got healthier in general.
They seemed more robust, they had more energy, and we now know the reasons behind a lot of those factors, like a moderate dose of sunlight will reduce inflammation throughout the body, it'll lower your blood pressure, it'll generally improve your metabolism.
So there's these sort of like low-level general effects on the body that are positive in almost every way.
But that only requires a moderate amount of light.
So they were going too far when doctors started realizing, wait a minute, we actually think that ultraviolet light might be a cause of skin cancer.
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