Rowan Jacobsen

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The Joe Rogan Experience · #2516 - Rowan Jacobsen · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

So yeah, your body wants it and your body rewards you when you get it.

So it really started for me like seven or eight years ago.

I was on this like science journalism fellowship.

So I was just doing research and

Some of those studies hit, the one about opiate release in the brain and other studies showing that when light hits skin, cognition actually improves.

Like your metabolism cranks up a little bit when the body feels sunlight coming in.

And I thought, that's interesting.

That's all good stuff.

Then I came across a couple other studies that seemed to indicate

that sunlight could lower blood pressure, which was really interesting.

So then, you know, I still had the sense sunlight bad, right?

So then I remember just like Googling like, so how much does sunlight like shorten your lifespan?

And like the punchline is sunlight seems to extend your lifespan.

So when I hit that, I was like, why are we not hearing this?

So that was the beginning.

It's more complicated than we thought.

So sunlight does increase your risk of skin cancer.

Depending on the type of skin cancer you're talking about, it's not necessarily like a linear relationship.

So yes, in general, too much sun increases your risk of skin cancer.

But yeah, the question is, what are the confounding factors?

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