https://twitter.com/KenDBerryMD/status/1773696063725006958

  • Bobson_Dugnutt [he/him]
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    83
    3 months ago

    Funny how skin cancer disproportionately affects white people living in sunny areas, I guess that's another one of Yakub's little jokes

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexbear
      14
      3 months ago

      "I love the sun. It's great, right? I can look at it any time I want. But ya gotta be smart. Lotsa people don't know this but I told Daedalus - I told him 'Look, wings made of wax won't work. I got an airline - use that.' But Daedalus didn't listen to me. And his son, Icarus, flew-flew-flew up the sky. And then - you know what? Then he crashed and died. Sad."

  • JustSo [she/her, any]
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    62
    3 months ago

    I'll let my dad know he had to have half his face cut out because he's soy fed. jokah

  • Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    My diet is only animal fat, not even meat, just the fat. Breakfast lunch and dinner. My eyeballs are greasy, and my tears are just 100% tallow. I don't even drink water. Because of this, i can stare at the sun for hours a day and have no issues. I've never had a sunburn. Wake up people.

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    Even if that was true (it's not, long term exposure to UV rays from the sun causes skin cancer), sun damage is still a thing. I live in a super sunny country, I don't want my skin to look like worn out leather by the time I'm 50. I'm putting on sunscreen every morning. SPF50.

    Also the Andrew Huberman guy, basically a "science based" Joe Rogan knockoff, advised against putting on sunscreen because he thinks that the chemicals in it are more harmful than the damage caused by the sun. For some reason health and fitness gurus are going hard against sunscreen at the moment. I have no idea why they are doing this. One of the easiest ways to stay looking younger is to use sunscreen every day lol. Probably the easiest health and beauty "biohack" that exists. 30 seconds of work a day which consists of applying a cheap cream to your face and exposed skin, so you look 15-20 years younger when you're 60. You'd think health and fitness gurus would promote the hell out of this.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      40
      3 months ago

      You’d think health and fitness gurus would promote the hell out of this.

      Why? By the time their flock are wrinkled and riddled with cancer they'll have already made their bag and cashed out.

    • Doubledee [comrade/them]
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      24
      3 months ago

      Even if you're almost always indoors/work nights? I always lathered up multiple times when I worked outside or whenever I went anywhere to hang out in the sun, but maybe I need to add sunscreen to my daily routine of peering hatefully at the rays that intrude into my cave.

    • sir_this_is_a_wendys [he/him]
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      6
      3 months ago

      A couple of sus people I know on social media always post his videos. Glad to know it's about what I expected.

      Also last year I read a book called The Skincare Hoax. It basically says all you need is some lotion and sunscreen. I actually stopped using soap on my face after reading it and my skin looks better than ever.

      I still use soap on my body obviously. Sunscreen is definitely not bs though lol. It's one of the few things that isn't.

  • Hurvitz [they/them]
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    47
    3 months ago

    This is like 1 or 2 steps removed from the "functional medicine" fuckheads that my mom was introduced to a year or two ago and is now pretty into. Thankfully she's not at the point of eating red meat and butter and eggs exclusively but there's some kooky stuff in there and the fact that you can find licensed doctors promoting every fucking variety of horrible misinfo makes my blood boil

  • kristina [she/her]
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    3 months ago

    Bro white people will straight up colonize the sun and then wonder why their skin is as scaly as a crocodile in one year

  • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    So I've run into some of these anti seed oil people before, but is there any basis to what they're saying or is it just pseudoscientific quackery?

    • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      Most of the fat, which is essential for hormone production, in the human diet for thousand of years came from nuts and seeds. It doesn’t make sense that now all of a sudden these same oils are bad for you. Do people put too much oil in their food in general? Probably, but the seed oil itself isn’t bad. People would be surprised to know they really don’t need to eat that many grams of fat per day.

      • Greenleaf [he/him]
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        11
        3 months ago

        I don’t think the concern is the seeds themselves, but rather that in the process of turning them into oil and cooking at high temps it changes the molecular structure in ways that are not good.

        I don’t know, I started looking into all this years ago before it got completely overtaken by chuds. It sucks because now I’m skeptical of any research that comes out about it because the space has become so chuddy. But back in the day I just swapped out cooking with vegetable oil for like, coconut oil and olive oil in some cases, not really a big deal. I don’t think it’s the sort of thing that anyone should panic over or change their diet if they don’t like it. But tbh drastically reducing how much seed oil I ingest was such a small change to my life I was just kinda like sure, ok, whatever.

        • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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          3 months ago

          I can see that, but I’m still not convinced it’s the big deal it’s been made out to be. If anything is bad about seed oils I would agree that it’s the cooking process more so than the oil itself. Kinda like how the charred bit when you’re grilling are carcinogenic (even though it’s delicious don’t @ me) or how it was long thought that motor oil is what caused mechanics to get cancer, when in reality it was the burnt up carbon IN the oil that caused the cancer. Burning oil is probably bad no matter what the source is in general, it’s just not good to ingest burnt oil in large quantities. I think the problem with olive and coconut oils is they have a lower smoke point so they in turn burn more easily. Not to scare you or anything obviously it’s just that I think the burning of the oil is what makes it harmful not the source.

    • Posadas [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      16
      3 months ago

      https://www.consumerreports.org/health/healthy-eating/do-seed-oils-make-you-sick-a1363483895/

    • BigHaas [he/him]
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      16
      3 months ago

      There's a flaw with that kind of question because our scientific understanding of diet is nowhere near complete. Metabolism and the microbiome are crazy complicated. It's better to do experiments like actually cutting out seed oils to see what happens. And the weird thing is that their community has hundreds of posts about curing weird autoimmune diseases or digestion issues https://www.reddit.com/r/StopEatingSeedOils/comments/1bqpel7/so_thankful_for_this_sub/

      Idk, I think it's compelling enough I've been changing my diet. I definitely get much less cravings for things, I actually just ended a 36 hour fast I did simply because I forgot to eat.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
    hexbear
    40
    3 months ago

    Inferior Seed Oils

    Sunflower seeds

    Doesn't protect against the sun

    An interesting hypothesis.

  • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]
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    39
    3 months ago

    I deeply encourage every may-I mean person of pallor to embrace their birthright and stand out in the sunlight for hours on end every day

    Embrace your history!

    Show

  • odmroz [he/him]
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    37
    3 months ago

    When ur enemies want to age like milk, let them.

  • @SSJ2Marx
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    36
    3 months ago

    I'm just saying if we all wore hoods or floppy straw hats we'd need less sunscreen.