Surgeon shares five ways to prevent cancer

[Mark K]

OSU? Could you find a whiter university to talk about melanin?

I'm thinking that a dermatologist from Ohio probably knows more about it than Wikipedia. Here's from a dermatologist in Florida if that helps.

"There is no such thing as a healthy tan," said Dr. Eric Parlette, an associate professor of dermatology at the University of Florida College of Medicine and a dermatologist at UF Dermatology at Springhill.

https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/2013/06/12/there-are-no-healthy-tans/31848856007/

And yes, obviously, dark skinned people from Africa or the Caribbean have evolved to produce sufficient protective chemicals to help prevent skin cancer, mostly.

If I thought the members of this forum were different than most CE classes I've attended over the years where 80-90% of the appraisers have European heritage, I wouldn't mind someone spreading bad health information because it would be a moot point. However, I think the vast majority of the members of this forum would be ill advised to believe that a tan can help prevent skin cancer. UV rays cause tans and cancer. Blocking them helps prevent cancer.

Even the black guys on my golf league use sunscreen, they say for three reasons. 1. They don't want to burn, 2. They don't want to get as dark as Yaphet Kotto, and 3. They don't want want skin cancer.

 

[Vermonter]

And yes, obviously, dark skinned people from Africa or the Caribbean have evolved to produce sufficient protective chemicals to help prevent skin cancer, mostly.

It's called melanin. The same thing you produce more of when tanning.

Even the black guys on my golf league use sunscreen, they say for three reasons. 1. They don't want to burn, 2. They don't want to get as dark as Yaphet Kotto, and 3. They don't want want skin cancer.

"Black guys" from Indiana have been losing melanin for generations....that is why they don't have as much protection.

You receive cell damage all day everyday of your life. The point is to mitigate the damage.
Increased melanin reduces uvb damage but can also cause cell damage.
Wearing chemical sunscreen reduces uvb damage but can cause cell damage elsewhere.
Eating the right foods reduces uvb damage but can cause cell damage elsewhere.
Living your life in the dark reduces uvb damage but can cause cell damage elsewhere.

Can Your Diet Help Prevent Skin Cancer?

Studies have shown that a diet rich in antioxidants may help fight off free radicals and prevent the damage they do that can cause skin cancer.

www.skincancer.org

 

[Fernando]

Noticed Trump and even Biden try to look tanner. A nice tan makes you look younger and healthier.
I'd been trying to keep my tan on my legs by wearing shorts while walking my dog. It's getting harder to wear shorts as the days get colder.

 

[Mark K]

A nice tan makes you look younger and healthier.

Maybe to some people. But when these sun worshipers get old and their skin looks like leather and they have numerous scars from dermatologists digging out cancerous areas of their face, they don't look so young or healthy. But I'm sure that in Fernando-land that's a small price to pay for looking good today.

 

[Fernando]

Maybe to some people. But when these sun worshipers get old and their skin looks like leather and they have numerous scars from dermatologists digging out cancerous areas of their face, they don't look so young or healthy. But I'm sure that in Fernando-land that's a small price to pay for looking good today.

I'll be going South of the border and hope to get a nice tan.
Several months ago in Maui before the fire, I forgot to spray a line spot behind my arm and got sunburned there. The dark line still behind my arm.
I learned my lesson to put sunscreen all over consistently so I can play in the sun longer.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

My first appraisal partner died of skin cancer. You certain do not want it. Both Chemo and radiation made her deathly sick and she went to Bethesda MD for experimental treatment. It didn't work either. Being frugal she flew to Bethesda and told her husband to stay home. But in St. Louis on the way back she was lost as a goose and called him. He contacted the airport and employees there hunted her up and got her on the right plane to get home. Between the cancer and treatment she was delirious for several days. It was a horrible way to die and took 2 years to kill her.

I wear a lot of long sleeves in summer when out in the fields. I started that 30 years ago after having a half dozen skin cancers cut off me. Why do you think a lot of Hispanics work in summer in hoodies and long sleeves? Ditto and if in the high mountains of the Rockies, the expose is even greater.

 

[Fernando]

Sorry to hear about your appraiser partner.
One can now check the UV rating to see how "dangerous" the sun rays are.
One shouldn't get sun burn and should wear sunscreen for protection.
My tan on my legs recently from the Carribean already starting to fade.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

One shouldn't get sun burn and should wear sunscreen for protection.

Bucking hay bales in college years is hot and in the sun. I had several skin cancers (non-malignant) removed a few years later. But when you are sweating profusely sunscreen will not help. Wearing a hat and sun glasses helped but in humid weather, the sweat washes off sunscreen in minutes and sometimes you cannot even wear sunglasses due to sweating. These Hispanic workers who wear long sleeves have the right idea. They say it is cooler to soak a shirt and let the shirt evaporate the sweat than to just sweat off bare skin. I donno. Maybe. Fishing on the lake can sunburn your face even with a hat just from reflection on the water.

An old redheaded GF used to turn nigh black on her back from swimsuits, and she developed a number of cancers that had to be removed, thankfully not malignant. Later she developed Lupus and has to do full cover up as sunlight will set Lupus off. Wore long dresses, or pants and long sleeves.

 

[Fernando]

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The biohacker Bryan Johnson (the tech entrepreneur who injected his own son's blood), age 46, takes 2,000 IU of D3 each morning, his website says. Angermayer, the 45-year-old billionaire investor, takes about 4,000 IU every three days. Fauci, 82, didn't specify to Insider exactly how much vitamin D he took, but he said his levels, which were "low" before he started supplements, had become "normal."

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

You should have been taking Vitamin D at least in winter especially if dark complected. A dark complected person should take it year around short living in the deep sunbelt and spending considerable time outdoors. I take it every day with my pills.