Rowan Jacobsen

Like they, parents would send their kids up into the Alps in like the twenties to institutes for heliotherapy.

Kids would ski around in their underwear, take classes in their underwear.

There's awesome photos from this, this era.

Um,

Like the instructors are in their underwear in the mountains outside in Switzerland teaching the kids, and everyone looks really healthy, right?

So there's kind of like this idea that you couldn't get too much light.

So people are literally burning themselves on purpose for health.

Yeah.

So to give it away, now it looks like –

For melanoma, which is the most dangerous type of skin cancer, it's associated with burning strongly, but not with gentle, moderate, everyday sun exposure.

Yeah, huge.

Like skin type is kind of everything.

People who have really dark skin basically don't get sun induced skin cancer.

Almost never.

And the you know, the authorities don't tend to talk about that because they want things to be they want to have like these one size fits all recommendations.

But those recommendations to basically always avoid the sun are written for the super fair people, especially if you have red hair, orange freckles.

Then you actually have a mutation in your melanin gene that makes you super susceptible to skin cancer from sunlight.

So if you've got that phenotype, lots of moles, red hair, freckles, you do have to be really careful.

And you can only do so much.

You're not going to tan that much anyway.