Your sun exposure?

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #21

I have a line of cousins in law, who has to cover up all the time, major sun allergy. It runs in their family. It is a very unpleasant thing.

Glad yours got better.

(Edith) #22

I’ve noticed I don’t get burned nearly as much since I started the keto diet. My husband has noticed the same thing. I am very fair, but I can work outside for hours without sunblock and just get a little pink.

(Joey) #23

Interesting material - thanks for sharing this link :+1:

(Robin) #24

You must live in a warm and sunny climate!

(Allie) #25

Yes same here! I used to burn badly but haven’t burnt at all since keto, and my legs actually tan too which is something that never used to happen no matter how much sun they got.

#26

yea I am southeast, nc so we do get alot of big sun and I always vacay at the beach mostly on the coast so more big sun

#27

Up here in the great, not-so-white north, we’ve been hitting the high 70’s /low 80’s. This is unseasonably warm and sunny. I had the weekend off, made the most of it, and spent several hours outside Saturday and Sunday. Worked a late shift on Monday, so ended up working in the garden another couple of hours mid-morning. Hubby and I have both started off with pretty good tans.

It feels fantastic to peel off the layers of clothing, and romp around in a tank top and shorts!!!

#28

Wow, that’s hot! We don’t have that yet and now it’s rainy… Oh well, sunlight will come.
I only wore shorts when I mowed the lawn until now (I do it in sunny weather if possible and it’s usually possible, we really have plenty of sun here in the seasons when the grass grows like crazy) as it’s easier to wash the green off my legs than out of my pants and socks… (I am not sure about my English here but couldn’t find how to do it correcly. I mean the wash off.)
I never remembered to wear sleeveless shirts but actually we have the temperature for it here and there. It’s almost summer…

#29

Our summer temps are normally 70’s to low 90’s. Once or twice a summer, we’ll hit 100F or so. Normally, the 80’s don’t start until late June or July. The ski hill usually has patches of snow on it this time of year- but not this year. I’m grateful for the weather though, as its made preparing the garden much easier.

We do have rain beginning tomorrow, which is fine- we will need it. Lake Superior seems a bit lower than normal. Its 3am here. Goodness me! I’ve been up for 22 hours. think its time to get some sleep! LOL!

#30

We very rarely have any snow nowadays (unlike in the past. many people are still waiting for snow around Christmas but it has a very very low chance) and April is the last chance for snowfall and it melts immediately. Snow in March isn’t unusual, it happened more often than in December in the last years…
100F happens, even 40+ Celsius but it’s fortunately rare. But inevitable, it comes every summer to Hungary even if not in each and every point of the country. I start dying above 25 Celsius (26 if I just had the hottest weeks, 23-24 if it’s winter…), I can’t get used to that, it’s horrible, melts my brain and ruins my mood and I became a very miserable zombie.

That’s why summer isn’t my favorite season. And because autumn is just perfect, often great weather (warm but not hot, lots of sunshine), fruits (well it’s not clearly positive for someone who tries to do carnivore as much as possible :smiley: but it’s still great), beautiful colorful leaves! But proper spring is great too. This year we have a decent sized spring, not just a couple of weeks between a too long winter and too early summer. I usually get super bored with winter when it’s finally over (but I need a long time until I can get used to higher temperatures, it’s very unpleasant to jump into a very nice summer weather almost right out of winter, it’s not so nice for spring!). I like Nature and need to see lots of green! :smiley: We have pines but that’s not enough… Finally, all trees realized it’s spring, some really take their sweet time if it’s about sprouting leaves!

(Edith) #31

I love love love summer and I love love love the heat and humidity believe it or not. We used to live in Southern California. I found the summers there too cool for my tastes. Mid 70s.

I now live in Northern Virginia. The temperature is supposed to hit 91 degrees F today. I’m very excited.

(Doug) #32

I was a bricklayer from 1978 to 1985; got lots of sun then. Fingers crossed - no skin cancer yet.

With a month still of spring yet to go, here in Georgia it looks like summer is fixin’ to assert itself:

92°F = ~33°C.

#33

10-18C (50-65F) today, mostly rain but when it was sunny, I could go out and be warm in my lightest t-shirt :smiley: Perfect. 70-75F is hot enough to me ( too hot for running, not ideal for walking but nothing too bad) but summer, sadly, has way hotter days :frowning: And I must hide and only come out at night even if that may be warmer than ideal too… This place is windy, that helps sometimes. And rainy days.

90F oh my good, that’s hell to me. I start dying before we reach 80, after all and I mean it. It’s awful.

But nights surely won’t be too hot for a long time :slight_smile: August is when I have real problems.
My room is still only 20C (68F), it’s all good.

Sunshine again. We had rain today, then rain, sunshine, rain, sunshine. Not too bad. When we had dense fog for 3 WEEKS (in November, several years ago), that was really bad. I don’t know how could I survive that. 3 not sunny days already affected me quite badly that time.

#34

I’m about 10 shades darker on non covered skin. In the sun everyday for most of the day.

#35

I’m a life-long surfer and ocean bear. 45+yrs in the sunshine. I was a surf lifesaver from my young teens. I followed the rules to cover up and wear sunscreen. But at the beach in summer a lot of time is spent just in bathers. I have had a few skin cancers removed. I wear a hat out in the sunshine often.

Since starting low carb ketogenic eating I found I rarely sunburn. It correlates with going off plan, the sunburn. These days I supplement Vitamin B3 nicotinamide on the advice of my dermatologist as it prevents skin cancer development through something to do with mitochondria and NADH+.

(Joey) #36

Interesting snippet re: B3. Thanks for mentioning.

So, I googled “vitamin B3 food sources” and read that spinach, broccoli, mushrooms, avocados, tomatoes all get top marks. Heck, these are the basics on which I build the rest of my nightly dinner salad… that is, before grilling something bloody, fat-laden, and butter-drenched as my main entree.

Okay, now I’m feeling even healthier. :+1:

(Doug) #37

Interesting about vitamin B3 - I’d never heard anything like that.

(Michael) #38

There are a lot of anecdotal reports that people who don’t consume the massive doses of Omega 6 fatty acids from vegetable oils don’t tend to suffer sunburn. I’ve been free of excess linoleic acid for five months. I’ve spend hours in the sun daily for the last couple of weeks. I’m turning brown without ever turning red. I think the anecdotal reports are true.

#39

I stopped eating vegetable oils a decade ago (not completely, I eat at my relatives but it’s rare and very little). I still get red when suddenly exposed to much sun, my skin can’t suddenly become some super skin… It never was serious or really painful but I definitely turn red. I can’t tell if it got better, possible, I had painful burns in my more distant path but I can avoid the sun more too now…

(Joey) #40

Another anecdote: My wife used to burn in the sun. Having cut out (most) dietary carbs, now she just tans.

Of course, anecdotes aren’t science.

Then again, sometimes science isn’t science either :wink: