Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Is sunshine bad for you in any way or does the problem lie in the lotions sunscreen etc that are encouraged. Do the 'solutions' bake into your skin and cause melanoma, sun spots?
It appears that people with autoimmune disease cannot tolerate UV from our sun, Lupus, Rhuemotoid Arthrhitis, Lyme, MCAS, Herpes, all flair with exposure. I would say it depended on other things too, skin complexion, skin toughness or fairness.
Is it the autoimmune disease or the 'solution' they've been prescribed?
The whole idea behind sunscreen is to prevent skin cancer, specifically hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, if you look at HCC rates since the main sunscreen chemicals were introduced, they’ve gone up 5x. I’m not going to hypothesize on a mechanism but whatever its doing is not lower skin cancer rates.
I hear that non-nano zinc sunblock is the best since standard ones can cause what you mentioned. It's why I asked about something similar a week or so ago on this daily general chat, because I work with a woman who meticulously applies sunblock constantly, even though she works indoors.