Keto bros unite, Dana White, Bert Kreischer, and Tom Segura are all in.
Dana White’s morning routine is locked in, first two hours dedicated to health, no matter what.
He hits the gym between 8:30-9:30 a.m. for an hour of workout and an hour of recovery.
Cold plunge, steam, sauna, red light therapy, oxygen therapy, all right in his office.
A no-excuses approach from the UFC boss.
What do you think, could a strict morning health routine change your life?
I’m a dermatologist. I’m supposed to say there is no amount of safe sun exposure.
But I won’t, because that’s a lie.
The attached shows how much sun is safe in different cities at different times of year.
What do I mean by ‘safe’?
I mean this: UV causes DNA damage and skin cancer.
But, shockingly, your body repairs that damage. As long as the damage doesn’t outpace repair and start accumulating it shouldn't increase your risk of skin cancer.
Data just came out that tells us how much UV you can get without damage accumulating.
They took the people most susceptible to DNA damage from UV and exposed them to UV, then did skin biopsies to measure the damage, then more skin biopsies to measure the repair, and repeated it daily for 4 days.
At 1.6 ‘Standard Erythemal Dose’ (SED) there was no accumulation of damage.
So, the attached charts show how much sun it takes to get 1 SED in different cities at different times of the year at different times of day.
And there are extra safety margins built in. It assumes a perfectly clear day with zero air pollution and that the sun is hitting your skin perpendicularly. Unless you’re laying flat, most sun is hitting you at an angle, which isn’t nearly as intense.
But a bigger question you might be asking is ‘Why would a dermatologist be telling you to get sun in the first place?’
Because getting sun reduces your risk of death.
Mostly by reducing your risk of heart attacks and strokes. That is very well proven.
But it’s also very likely that sun exposure reduces your risk of autoimmune disease, dementia, cancer and depression. It’s just not as well proven as the protection against heart attacks and strokes.
And before you reply and say ��just take vitamin D!’, know that it has been ROBUSTLY proven that vitamin D has little (if any) benefit for preventing any of the above. Vitamin D is mostly useful as a marker of if you’re getting enough sun.
What do I do myself and what do I tell my patients?
Get as much unprotected sun exposure as you can without getting a burn.
That’s my GUESS as to what has the best risk/benefit ratio. Dying of skin cancer is actually really rare, especially when compared to the risk of heart attacks, strokes, autoimmune disease, dementia and other cancers.
But I’ll admit it’s not for sure best to get as much sun as possible, since sun does increase the risk of skin cancer and it might be the case the benefits plateau at a low level.
So, if you’re really worried about skin cancer stick to the charts.
The best science I can find says that amount won’t cause skin cancer.
The takeaway?
Sun is good for you, just don’t get a burn.
Watch the pattern. It only ever runs one way.
When butter was demonised, Unilever was ready with margarine.
When lard and tallow were demonised, Procter and Gamble was ready with Crisco.
When eggs were demonised, Kellogg's was ready with a bowl of cereal.
When red meat was demonised, Cargill was ready with soy.
When breastfeeding was demonised as backward, Nestlé was ready with formula.
When leather was demonised, BASF was ready with plastic cut to look like hide.
When wool was demonised, ExxonMobil was ready with the feedstock for polyester.
When animal fat itself was demonised, seed oil climbed from industrial waste to the most used cooking fat on earth.
Every one of them was a food or a fibre humans had thrived on for thousands of years, condemned at the exact moment a cheaper factory copy was sitting ready on the shelf.
The product came first. The science came trotting along behind it, right on cue, the instant there was a substitute to sell.
Follow the money. The advice starts to make a great deal more sense.
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Nobody has disagreed more with Anthony Fauci than Anthony Fauci.
In a rational society, this guy would be living under a bridge somewhere talking to himself and pushing a stolen shopping cart full of empty cans.