Rowan Jacobsen

But the other thing is if you do it naturally, right, if you just get a little sun every day and slowly build up, you're not just making melanin.

You're also increasing your body's damage repair system.

Like you have all these like nucleotide excision repair, things that fix your DNA and fix cells that have gotten screwed up.

And that will also ramp up every day.

And it's not just sunlight, like exercise, same thing, like anything that.

that like stresses the body a little bit.

It's like hormesis, right?

So all those things are going to cause your damage repair system to crank up and be ready.

So you could probably want those to like the melanin and the damage repair to to like go up together.

Yeah.

And how did it kill him?

That's just not a good look.

Papa Smurf dies.

I mean, he looks delicious.

Back to Bob Marley.

Yes.

He did die of skin cancer, and that confuses a lot of people.

So he had melanoma on his toe, and that was a kind of melanoma that's not caused by the sun.

And everybody gets it no matter what race you are.

Everybody gets it at the same rate, which is quite uncommon.