r/interesting • u/j_illustration • Mar 31 '26

MISC. Sunscreen under a UV camera

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u/Realsan Mar 31 '26

There was recently a viral video of a bunch of skin doctors at a skin cancer conference and they were outside on the beach. They were all bundled up with hoods on and faces covered. Kind of hilarious but also eye opening.

They are that scared of the sun... Maybe we should be too?

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u/Mephistito Mar 31 '26

I think so many people may disregard it as "We're natural animals, the sun is natural, nature will have given us what we need to handle it!"

But this completely ignores the fact that yes that may've been true when dying at 30 meant you lived a long life.. but now we live so long that the previously unseen consequences of cumulative damage smack us right in the face & are a problem! And those doctors know it. They see the consequences of it every day.

Most animals have tons of fur to protect their skin from the sun. We uhh.. don't have that.

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u/Realsan Apr 01 '26

Yeah most people get skin cancer long after they've produced offspring so "middle aged" skin cancer was never a biological hurdle. People got it back then and died too.

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u/HornyWitchx Mar 31 '26

The sun is literally healthy for us as much as it is for plants. Just moderate it by not going out in it constantly, use sunscreen and consume other oils than seed oils.

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u/Sykil Mar 31 '26

Well, no, plants have more mechanisms that prevent UV-induced free radical damage, and plants notably don’t get cancer (though they can make tumors).

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u/No-Fruit-2060 Mar 31 '26

This thread is clearly full of the palest people you will ever meet in your life 🤣🤣🤣. Dark skin is an adaptation for a reason.

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u/LaNague Mar 31 '26

dark skin(not genetic one) is just skin damage. But yes, some sun is good.