What podcasts say about Rowan Jacobsen
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What Rowan Jacobsen has said on podcasts
74 statements · 30 positive · 27 negative · 5 mixed · 12 neutral
Sunlight triggers opiate release in the brain
“it literally triggers the release of opiates in the brain”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 1:27
Light exposure improves cognition
“when light hits skin, cognition actually improves”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 2:04
Sunlight may lower blood pressure
“sunlight could lower blood pressure”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 2:24
Sunlight appears to extend lifespan
“sunlight seems to extend your lifespan”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 2:39
Sunlight increases skin-cancer risk
“sunlight does increase your risk of skin cancer”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 3:03
Excessive sun exposure increases skin-cancer risk
“too much sun increases your risk of skin cancer”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 3:16
Ultraviolet light increases free radicals and directly damages DNA
“ultraviolet light can increase your free radicals and it can directly damage DNA”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 4:33
Melanoma is strongly associated with sunburn, not moderate daily exposure
“for melanoma, which is the most dangerous type of skin cancer, it's associated with burning strongly, but not with like gentle, moderate, everyday sun exposure”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 11:26
Very dark skin greatly reduces sun-induced skin cancer
“People have really dark skin basically don't get sun induced skin cancer almost never”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 12:02
A red-hair melanin mutation increases susceptibility to sun-related skin cancer
“you actually have a mutation in your melanin gene that makes you super susceptible to skin cancer from sunlight”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 12:28
Melanotan might increase melanin as protection against sunlight
“that peptide might be triggering melanin as a compensation mechanism for extra protection from sunlight”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 13:39
Melanin likely provides substantial protection from sunlight
“if it's melanin, definitely. I mean, that guy can probably be outside all day”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 17:19
Melanin protects against skin cancer
“Melanin clearly protects you from skin cancer”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 17:47
Very dark skin melanin absorbs approximately 97–98% of UV rays
“your melanin is absorbing like 97, 98% of the UV rays”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 17:57
Gradual daily sun exposure increases melanin and cellular damage repair
“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”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 18:53
Mild bodily stress activates hormetic responses
“Anything that. That stresses the body a little bit, it's like Hormesis”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 19:18
Bob Marley's toe melanoma was not caused by sunlight
“that was a kind of melanoma that's not caused by the sun”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 24:10
Chronic daily outdoor exposure is associated with lower melanoma risk
“Chronic exposure, where you have an outdoor job every day. Lower than average risk of melanoma”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 25:08
Outdoor workers have lower melanoma incidence than office workers
“Outdoor workers have fewer. Have a lower incidence of melanoma than office workers”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 25:17
Much skin cancer generally results from excessive exposure and sunburn
“that's generally from overexposure, like burning, burning”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 26:06
Childhood sunburn has the strongest association with melanoma
“burns during childhood is actually the highest association for melanoma”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 26:27
Tanning beds raise melanoma risk
“They seem to raise your risk of melanoma for sure”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 28:12
Regular sunlight prompts compounds that help prevent cells becoming cancerous
“if you're getting that regular dosage, your body is producing all of these compounds whose entire job is to make sure your cells don't turn cancerous”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 28:45
Sudden massive sun exposure is more harmful than prepared gradual exposure
“when your skin is totally unprepared and you shock it with like a massive dose that, that it's not ready for, then. Then you're in trouble”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 29:08
Vitamin D pills have not matched the effects of sunlight-derived vitamin D
“those pills haven't panned out in tests. They don't work like natural D does for whatever reason”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 30:06
Large vitamin D clinical trials showed no overall benefit
“None of them showed a benefit”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 30:58
Vitamin D supplementation mainly helps people with severe deficiency
“It seems like it only helps people who have, who are really deficient”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 34:36
Severe vitamin D deficiency is below approximately 60 nanograms per milliliter
“below like 60 nanograms per milliliter”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 34:42
Raising vitamin D levels through supplementation did not reproduce sunlight-associated benefits
“raising everyone's D to those levels would have the same effect. And it didn't”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 36:06
People should take their light exposure environments more seriously
“we need to think about our light diets and our, like, lightscapes that we're, you know, surrounding ourselves with, like, more seriously than we have”
Open the episode · #2516 - Rowan JacobsenListen at 38:35
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