Greeks consume 24 liters of olive oil per person per year. Americans consume 1. That ratio explains this photo better than genetics.
Extra virgin olive oil contains over 30 phenolic compounds, the most important being oleocanthal and oleuropein. Oleocanthal has anti-inflammatory properties so similar to ibuprofen that researchers initially thought they'd contaminated their samples. When you consume it daily for decades, these polyphenols accumulate in skin tissue and neutralize the reactive oxygen species that UV radiation generates in your epidermis. The free radicals that cause photoaging in most people are getting quenched before they can degrade collagen.
The diet stacks on top of that. Tomatoes are a staple across Greece, and lycopene, the red pigment, absorbs UV radiation directly. One study found that people eating 40 grams of tomato paste daily for 10 weeks became measurably more resistant to sunburn. Add omega-3s from fish, carotenoids from vegetables, and resveratrol from red wine, and you've built an internal photoprotection system that no SPF bottle replicates.
Researchers at Tel Aviv University studied Mediterranean populations and found melanoma rates were extremely low despite intense sun exposure. The diet was doing what people assumed only melanin could do. The antioxidant-rich group in their study had 50% fewer oxidation products in their blood after five to six hours of daily sun exposure over two weeks.
The man in this photo didn't survive the sun. He ate a diet for 80 years that turned his skin into something the sun couldn't easily break down. 24 liters of liquid armor per year, every year, since before sunscreen existed.
Cause the majority of the lore and abilities of jinchuriki and tailed beast weren't finalized till halfway through shippuden.Kishimoto just wanted a big kaiju fight and didn't really care how he got there. Naruto didnt even transform into the 9tails in the manga during the fight
I hc that aang takes her back to the swamp one day and says "this is where i kinda first met you.” and finally tells her the full vision story. and then she asks, “did you... have any future visions about any of your other sifus?” and he’s like, “nope, just you.”