The Sun: Adverse Effects
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The Sun: Adverse Effects
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In this episode — Five minutes on sun exposure and skin cancer — three diagnoses, one melanoma that nearly didn’t end well, and the one habit that changes the odds.
Chapters
0:01 — Another entry in his “raining on your parade” series: this one’s about the sun
0:27 — The sun is fantastic, and it comes with adverse effects
0:56 — Hanging out in the sun through his teens, twenties, and thirties
1:24 — A teenage sunburn with his girlfriend Marguerite Davis, at a lake near Champaign, Illinois, that ended in the hospital
1:52 — Decades later, the first skin cancers: basal and squamous cell
2:19 — Five years ago: a nodular melanoma diagnosis
2:47 — How his immune system bought him the time to get it cut out
3:15 — The real tradeoff: sun now, or the dermatologist later
3:42 — Why SPF 50+ sunscreen is the compromise he’s landed on
4:11 — Closing thought and sign-off
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