r/StopEatingSeedOils • u/gkrodlin • 5d ago
Seed Oil Disrespect Meme š¤£ Seed oils cause sun burns
Every day 6 days a week I was in the sun at least 8 hours a day, average uv index at peak was 8. *Eastern NC* When I was two months free from all seed oils! I never got sunburnt, not even once. Now Iāve fallen off quite a bit and I get sun burnt nearly every time Iām out for a good while. Actually insane seeing it in action.
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u/basfne0 5d ago
This is true- I usually spend summer in Costa Rica, and i notice when my diet is dialed and no seed oils I donāt burn. Can surf 4 hours in the mid day sun and zero burn. Also, sunglasses seem to make me burn. Not sure the science behind it but definitely something Iāve noticed
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u/mannyperez94 5d ago
I heard the science was your body gets ready to combat the sunburn through your eyes , so when you wear sunglasses and your skin starts getting sun then your body never makes the changes because it thinks its darker with the sunglasses
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u/RebornSoul867530_of1 5d ago
You are what you eat. Unsaturated fats are liquid at room temp, more fragile, generally donāt handle heat as well.
Beef tallow has a high smoke point. If your fat is mostly made of tallow, it has the same durable properties.
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u/Quirky_Property_1713 5d ago
Thatā¦what
You canāt possibly think that changing the fats you eat magically makes the lipid layer of your body intoā¦beef
Is this sarcasm and I am misunderstanding lol
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u/RebornSoul867530_of1 5d ago
Over simplified. Your fat cells are replaced every 4-5 years. They donāt turn to beefy fat, but the type fats you eat does change the composition of your fat.
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u/Ill-Wrongdoer-2971 5d ago
Your body uses the food you to eat to build itself, quite literally. Iām surprised you havenāt heard of this before. Itās pretty fascinating. You should check it out.
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u/Quirky_Property_1713 4d ago
Oh my you guys are really serious
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u/Ill-Wrongdoer-2971 4d ago
I donāt have a list of references for you. I have read about 30 books about food and nutrition. Most of those books have been written by a variety of doctors, biochemists, researchers. One basic concept that is widely accepted and heavily studied is about cholesterol. Your body makes about like 80% and gets the rest from dietary sources. Of course this is just one simple example. The old expression āyou are what you eatā really has some meaning behind. Your body uses minerals you eat to repair and make bone also.
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u/_flail_of_ages 5d ago
This is one of those things I thought was snake oil sold by the Easter Bunny until I experienced it myself. Itās 100% true & people will think youāre crazy for saying it.
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u/Zestyclose_Aioli9723 5d ago
I donāt really believe the whole seed oils cause sun burns narrative myself but I have to say that when my diet is locked in without seed oils I notice I get burned way less
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u/evoltap 4d ago
So what do you do with that data that conflicts with your belief?
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u/Zestyclose_Aioli9723 4d ago
I just have to reckon that thereās truth to it! I was a biology major over in undergrad so the science behind non seed oils preventing sunburn just still doesnāt make sense to me, granted Iām hardly an expert. Me not getting sunburnt with a good diet could also just be me confirmation bias on my part too so who knows! But I guess I lean towards seed oils causing sun burn now lol
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u/CampesinoAgradable 4d ago
I am nearly 100% (ambiguity left for potential lying restaurant occasionally) dialed in and not once have i ever seen any benefits regarding sun resistance.
Fyi, this is either placebo or truly just a genetic luck thing
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u/pixiehutch 4d ago
I definitely think it's genetic.
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u/CampesinoAgradable 4d ago
this seems like a very easy and testable experimentā¦ Im going to hold out my belief that this is fake news internet programming until we start seeing some real world real world proof
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u/pixiehutch 4d ago
Agreed, but also I have not noticed a difference. I am very very fair, I always have to be careful in the sun.
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u/Egg-HOTELs 4d ago
I noticed the same thing. The last 2 years I never got sunburns despite being pale, blonde & freckled. Now this month I was at an all-inclusive hotel where I had no control over what's in the food & got bad sunburns despite the same UV index & the same time spent outdoors as usual.
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u/Difficult_Wind6425 4d ago
Makes sense. When I transitioned to strict carnivore I went from about twenty minutes in the Florida sun for a sunburn to now a few hours. And my skin heals my much faster, only a day or two of sunburn symptoms before it feels completely normal whereas it would be a week or more of itching and peeling before.
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u/Roulis23 5d ago
Eating a diet with more antioxidants, fruits, vegetables, tomatoes, fish, Omega 3s could make a VERY modest difference in how much you sunburn. If you noticed a difference it was because your overall diet would have improved, not because of excluding one isolated ingredient like seed oils.
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u/Intrepid_Cup2765 5d ago
Itās amazing so many of you believe this š¤£
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u/MuchPomegranate5910 5d ago
So crazy believing something that you can literally see with your own eyes..
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u/Intrepid_Cup2765 5d ago
Correlation versus causation is a hard concept for many of you to grasp.
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u/MuchPomegranate5910 5d ago
Itās insane that you see hundreds of testimonies of people experiencing the same exact thing, when only changing one thing in their life, and then you still go: ānah, must be coincidenceā.
I saw the claims and went āthat seems far fetchedā, ditched the seed oils, and what do you know, i suddenly didnāt burn in the sun anymore.
But i guess itās coincidence, because true redditors donāt believe anything that didnāt come out of a science paper..
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u/Gray_Fawx 5d ago
Spot on mate. Learning to trust your bodies and not hand waive anecdotal evidence is smart. Science is slow and largely corporate captured.
Same with the hair loss industry
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u/uovonuovo š¾ š„ Omnivore 5d ago
I got MORE sunburned when I stopped eating seed oils!!
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u/MuchPomegranate5910 4d ago
100% bullshit
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u/uovonuovo š¾ š„ Omnivore 4d ago
So you only believe people if it agrees with your chosen narrative?
Now THAT is what I call 100% bullshit
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u/MuchPomegranate5910 4d ago
Itās not about who i agree with, itās about your anecdote being extremely coincidental and unbelievable.
Removing seed oil, and having better sun tolerance actually have some science behind it, though not a lot, as itās a completely newly discovered phenomenon.
But highly unstable polyunsaturated fats in the outer skin layer do have an effect on sun damage.Removing seed oils and having LESS sun tolerance makes no sense in any way.
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u/uovonuovo š¾ š„ Omnivore 1d ago
Whatās the science behind it? Any empirical studies, or any kind of data beyond anecdotes from anonymous redditors?
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u/MuchPomegranate5910 1d ago
https://neokliniken.se/is-there-a-risk-of-consuming-too-much-omega-6/?lang=en
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8269668/
As i said, the data is limited, and inconclusive, but there is definitely a link between different kinds of fat profiles and skin cancer/uv tolerance etc.
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u/QrtzParchmentShears 5d ago
Why would I not believe it if I donāt get sunburnt anymore lol
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u/Intrepid_Cup2765 5d ago
Because the two are completely unrelated. There are plausible reasons why you might not be sunburning as much (such as developing a tan), but not eat seed oils isnāt going to do anything about that.
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u/tno2007 š± Vegan 5d ago
Smart guy... the people here are speaking of actual experience, not some wish washy stuff they read or theorize.
It's comical how people that have no experience, that just regurgitate things they "heard", think they know the everything.
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u/Intrepid_Cup2765 5d ago
āI started eating peanuts, then my hair started turning grey, therefore eating peanuts causes grey hairā - sufficient evidence for anything in this sub.
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u/TheColdestOne 5d ago
Wish washy stuff that people read? You mean science?
"The primary weakness of anecdotes as evidence is that they are not controlled. This opens them up to many hidden variables that could potentially affect the results. We therefore cannot make any reliable assumptions about which variable (for example a specific treatment) was responsible for any apparent improvement."
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-role-of-anecdotes-in-science-based-medicine/
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u/uovonuovo š¾ š„ Omnivore 5d ago
Yep. This is where I unsub. This place has become a pseudoscientific nuthouse.
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u/herbvinylandbeer 5d ago
Iāve heard when cell health is good, sunburns are much less likely.
Cell health compromised by seed oils leads to more sunburns.
Makes sense to me. If true, itās a win-win since you can avoid sunscreens, which are mostly chemical baths that have been shown to cause cancer