[tasty_freeze]

I often embarrass my daughter when she has some new friend over. If the topic comes up, I give a demonstration. I'm 62 and I've never tried to get a tan and work indoors, and I haven't had a serious sunburn in close to 40 years. On the other hand, I lived spent the last 20 years in Austin, TX. I mow the yard and I ride a bike and in the summer months I put on sunblock before doing the bike rides an sometimes mowing.

The exposed parts of my arms look like I'm 62 -- freckles, some age spots, the skin has lost a lot of elasticity. But then I roll up my T-shirt sleeve to expose my shoulder and my skin is like it was when I was 25: not just pale, but no freckles, no age spots, still supple.

[jodrellblank]

Photo claiming to be a 92 year old woman who used suncream on her face, but not her neck, for 40 years:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ITlo7TAy_Hs/maxresdefault.jpg

(She also appears to have Frank's Sign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%27s_sign )

[DANmode]

and then staying in the sun too long, over and over again.

Don’t forget that step.

[jodrellblank]

I see no mention of that in the picture I linked for me to have 'forgotten'? Or in the longer article where it appears: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jdv.17660

That seems to be something you have 'hallucinated'?

[DANmode]

You think that happened to her from a single exposure?

A handful of exposures?

She looks like a football! Who’s hallucinating?

[jodrellblank]

92 years is 33,000 days of being alive, that's plenty of time to rack up damage without doing anything for "too long".

If she had tooth decay or dentures would you say she must have been "chewing for too long"?

[DANmode]

Chewing bacteria and or acid for too long, yeah. Like most people.

It’s easy to explain away degenerative effects as primarily age-related - until you look at healthy old people.

About whom the model just says “statistical outlier” and moves on.

[eager_learner]

the culprit is not the sun-- but overdoing it. If you overdrink water, it is fatal, too.

The sun is responsible for benefiting over 200 processes in the body. And you don't need to be out in the sun all day to get the benefits (if your job does not demand it).

[maleldil]

It's far harder to overdrink water than it is to overstay in the sun.