Posted on 02/01/2016 9:24:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
Many people are getting the message loud and clear. That sunscreen helps protect you against skin cancer. But some experts say all that sunscreen is creating another problem.
“That is the major cause for the vitamin D epidemic worldwide,†says Dr. Michael F. Holick, an endocrinologist at the BU School of Medicine.
“Sunscreen absorbs ultraviolet light and ultraviolet light makes vitamin D in your skin, and if you put a sunscreen on with an SPF of 30 and it absorbs about 97-98% of the UV light, it will reduce the ability to make vitamin D in your skin by 97-98%,†says Dr. Willett.
That can lead to a host of problems including rickets, osteoporosis, diabetes, and memory loss.
So how can we get the cancer blocking effects of sunscreen without depriving our bodies of vitamin D? Solar D. A specially formulated sunscreen that blocks harmful ultraviolet rays but allows the vitamin D-permitting rays to get through to your skin.
Dr. Holick helped design the product and says research shows it works.
“You can have your cake and eat it too is to take advantage of the sun protection factor as well as making some vitamin D in your skin,†says Dr. Holick.
Solar D has been approved by the FDA and should be available on store shelves in the United States this spring. With an SPF of 30, it is expected to cost about the same as traditional sunscreens.
Cool. My family has low vitamin and my brother died of skin cancer.
Good news!
I see elderly people sunning themselves all the time. Which is useless, since people can’t make their own Vit. D after age 50 or so.
I think it’s helped me. I’m the only one in my family without skin cancer, and I’ve worn sunscreen.
I don’t go out in the sun as much as they did, but I was also more diligent about sunscreen.
Unfortunately for me, I got overexposed multiple times as a child. I wear sunscreen and stay out of the sun as much as possible now, but they claim that early exposure will eventually haunt you.
Fortunately nothing so far.
My brother was a red head and lived in Venezuela as a kid. He got skin cancer in his early 20s and died at 48. Very unusual to die from non-melanoma skin cancer especially so young. Even if I got it, I don’t think it would kill me (unless it was melanoma).
About. Damn. Time. I will use it, unless there are ingredients in it that aren’t good for you.
That’s always the big question.
Yeah. My wife drinks a low sugar milk protein drink, and read they stuck sucralose in it. No more.
“Plus, aging skin produces less vitamin D — the average 70 year-old person creates only 25 percent of the vitamin D that a 20 year-old does.”
http://drhyman.com/blog/2010/08/24/vitamin-d-why-you-are-probably-not-getting-enough/
We still get some just not as much.
Nice try at sugar-coating it. Getting old is still chicken-poop.
BTTT
I’m almost 70 and my vitamin D levels are excellent.
I still prefer getting older to the alternative.
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When I was diagnosed with cancer at age 46, my Vit-D level was checked. It was ridiculously low. The oncologist had to order prescription-level Vit-D until the level was closer to normal. For many years before then, I’d worked late night shifts and avoided the sun. All those years, I thought I was protecting myself against cancer. Who knew?
What about the unknown effects of the chemicals in sunscreen? I expect at some point we will be told about how bad sunscreen was.
That’s great!
I agree. I'm only 48, but this morning, my hips hurt so badly I could hardly bend over and just wanted to stay in bed.
Do you take glucosamine and chondroitin supplements?
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