[The Lizard of Oz]

Great post by Gio, as always.

A comment: guys on the thread are going way, way overboard with the sun-phobia.

Yes, if you fry your skin in the sun all day every day with no protection, your skin will age faster and it's not a good idea.

But the problem for most men today is not too much sun, it's too little.

Without sunlight and specifically UV exposure, you don't generate enough vitamin D and enough testosterone. As a result, your life sucks in pretty much every way.

I have no doubt that the decline in testosterone levels in western men over the course of the last few generations is directly related to reduced sunlight exposure as a result of more office work and relentless skin cancer based sunscreen propaganda.

I may do a separate post on this later, but the short version is this:

You want to get some sun but not too much. Ideally, get it consistently during the summer around noon to optimize the UV-A/UV-B ratio. You don't need more than 10-20 minutes at a time but during that time you want to sunbathe exposing as much of your body as possible with no sunscreen.