#2516 - Rowan Jacobsen

Joe Rogan· Host0:01

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Rowan Jacobsen· Guest0:09

[upbeat music] Yep.

Joe Rogan· Host0:13

All right. Very nice to meet you, man.

Rowan Jacobsen· Guest0:14

You too. Thanks for having me.

Joe Rogan· Host0:15

Thank you. And thanks for doing this work because you wanna talk about a subject that's confused so many people. Is the sun good for you? Is the sun killing you? Why does it give you vitamin D if it's bad for you? Why, why do people get skin cancer if it's good for you?

Rowan Jacobsen· Guest0:30

Yeah. It's, it's super complicated, and the messaging has not sort of admitted that, and that was, yeah, a big impetus for the book.

Joe Rogan· Host0:36

When... What was your opinion of sun exposure before you started writing this?

Rowan Jacobsen· Guest0:42

So I had, you know, I had inherited the conventional wisdom from the institutions that it was really bad. At the same time, I'll admit that my instincts, um, were that maybe it wasn't as bad as they were leading me to believe 'cause whenever I was in the sun, I felt good. And I live in Vermont. At the... By the time winter was reaching, like, month six, I felt bad, right?

Joe Rogan· Host1:06

Right.

Rowan Jacobsen· Guest1:07

So I was like, "There's more here than, uh, than we're being told."

Joe Rogan· Host1:10

Yeah. That's, that was my wife's opinion. She's like, "The sun can't be bad. It always feels good when you go out there." I'm like, "I un- well, mm, it's a little more complicated than that," but that is a- Yeah ... the instinct. Like, it feels great when you're in the sun. Like, ah. It's like your body wants it.

Rowan Jacobsen· Guest1:25

Your body wants it. I mean, w- we now know that it literally triggers the release of opiates