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.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And he called the effect photo relaxation.
There were a lot of nitric oxide researchers out there trying to figure out how it worked because it seems like if you could master that, you could really improve cardiovascular health.
Nitric oxide is a very simple compound.
It's just, you know, a nitrogen and an oxygen put together, but it dilates blood vessels.
It tells the muscle in the blood vessel to relax.
It lowers blood pressure, which is, and cardiovascular disease, number one cause of death in the world by far.
It's the biggie.
So anything that lowers cardiovascular disease is a huge win for public health.
So that was sort of the next stage in this story.
It's after Pele Lindqvist's papers, a dermatologist in Scotland named Richard Weller and some other colleagues of his discovered was that the skin actually...
produces a bunch of nitric oxide when hit by sunlight.
The more sunlight that hits your skin, the more nitric oxide will be released into your bloodstream, the more blood pressure goes down.
Huge.
Because, you know, as we were talking about, cardiovascular disease is the number one killer.
So if you could reduce blood pressure, even modestly, you could save millions of lives.
And skin cancer, and this is surprising to a lot of people, it doesn't kill very many people.
It's not a big killer.
It's not one of like the top 40 causes of death.
Cardiovascular is number one.
If you took that research seriously, then you had to sort of ask the question of trade-offs.
Showing 121–140 of 216 · page 7 of 11
← Previous
Next →