Rowan Jacobsen
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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But he noticed it for blood clots, then he noticed it for diabetes.
And so then he looked at the same data set just for all-cause mortality.
And the Sun Seekers,
had significantly less mortality than the sun avoiders.
The sun avoiders were twice as likely to die from any cause as the sun seekers.
So he published a study and there's sort of like a notorious line in there now where he says, sun avoidance seems to be a risk factor for mortality, a par with smoking, which upset everybody.
But he wasn't even looking to make a statement.
He was just like laying out the data.
Well, the implication that avoiding the sun was as bad as smoking for your health was not the message that the powers that be had been pushing for several decades.
At that time, and to this day, the official advice is do not ever expose yourself to sunlight without protection.
Yeah.
sunscreen or clothing, the proper amount of sun exposure or UV in particular to get is zero, right?
So this was one of the first papers that really sort of flew in the face of that recommendation.
So that was sort of the next stage in this story.
There had been a guy named Robert Furchgott.
He was working with rabbit aortas because, you know, why wouldn't you?
He was trying to figure out what, yeah, like what made blood vessels contract and dilate.
had a jar of rabbit aortas on the windowsill in his lab, and it had been a cloudy day, and then suddenly the clouds cleared and the sunlight hit the jar with the rabbit aortas in it, and the blood vessels dilated.
And he thought, what the heck?
And then some clouds came and they contracted.
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