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 Proponents say sunscreen prevents sunburn, but in fact, the real cause of sunburn is not merely UV exposure: It is a lack of antioxidant nutrition. Start eating lots of berries and microalgae (spirulina, astaxanthin, blue-green algae, etc.), and you'll build up an internal sunscreen that will protect your skin from sunburn from the inside out. Sunburn is actually caused by nutritional deficiencies that leave the skin vulnerable to DNA mutations from radiation, but if you boost your nutrition and protect your nervous system with plant-based nutrients, you'll be naturally resistant to sunburn. |
| There is no need for sunscreen, but the cancer industry and sunscreen manufacturers have created a fictitious need through a campaign of fear and disinformation, hypnotizing practically the entire population into believing one of the most ridiculous ideas in the universe: that sunlight is bad for human health.
Think about it. Our ancestors did not have indoor lighting; they exposed their skin to the sun regularly. They didn't run and hide from the sun, they used it as nourishment to generate a crucial vitamin that supports human health in a multitude of ways. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Eat lots of berries, spirulina, chlorella and superfoods, and you'll build up a natural, internal sunscreen that blocks excess UV rays naturally.
Despite these gaps in EWG's knowledge on nutrition, I completely agree with the EWG's stance on exposure to toxic chemicals, and that's the strength of their outstanding work. As they conclude about sunscreen products:
...we also sorely need policies that would require companies to document the safety of chemicals before they go on the market. |
| That's nearly three decades of keeping the public in the dark about the extremely harmful, cancer-causing chemicals found in sunscreen products. Any idea why the Food and Drug Administration has taken so long to set safety standards for a product used by over 100 million Americans? If you guessed, "Because the greedy corporations selling the toxic sunscreen products don't want the FDA to study the safety of their products," give yourself golden star sticker. You got it! |
| FDA has not established rigorous safety standards for sunscreen ingredients.
After 29 years of debate, the government has failed to set mandatory sunscreen safety standards. Companies are free to make their own decisions on everything from advertising claims to product quality. In lieu of setting final standards, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advises people to stay out of the sun from 10 am to 4 pm. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As long as people believe that sunlight is dangerous, the sunscreen makers will sell more sunscreen products, but the minute the population realizes that sensible sunlight exposure is not dangerous and that it is, in fact, crucial for long-term health, sunscreen sales will plummet.
This is exactly why sunscreen manufacturers would be outspoken critics of portable consumer vitamin D sensors. I predict this will happen in the future. Dermatologists, who are closely aligned with sunscreen manufacturers, may even join the outcry against the vitamin D sensor. |
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| How do transdermal drugs get absorbed through the skin if sunscreen chemicals don't? (Answer: ALL these chemicals get absorbed through the skin. The skin is not selective about what it chooses to absorb.)
6) If the sun is so dangerous, then why is the vitamin generated by sunlight (vitamin D) so healthy for humans? Why would humans evolve a mechanism for generating a vitamin from sunlight if we weren't supposed to be exposed to sunlight in the first place?
7) If sunlight is so dangerous, then why is virtually every living creature on planet Earth dependent on sunlight for survival? |
| Once you answer these questions, the reality of the situation becomes obvious: Sunlight is good for you, and sunscreen is a hoax.
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Be sure to read our free report on this: The Healing Power of Sunlight and Vitamin D. This provides tips on how to safely gauge your level of exposure to sunlight. Don't just rush out and get burned; boost your nutrition and work up a natural tan as nature intended.
See the article: Vitamin D slashes cancer risk by 77 percent.
Visit our topic page on Vitamin D. |
| Medical nonsense
If sunscreen is so bad for humans, you might ask, then why do so many doctors recommend using it? This might be hard for you to believe, but it wasn't too long ago that doctors routinely recommended smoking cigarettes, too. The Journal of the American Medical Association, in fact, ran numerous ads promoting Camels as "recommended by more doctors than any other cigarette!" Doctors talked up the "benefits" of smoking cigarettes, urging people to start smoking in order to improve brain function or even -- get this -- make their teeth stronger! |
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| As they conclude about sunscreen products:
...we also sorely need policies that would require companies to document the safety of chemicals before they go on the market. And, most importantly, we need policies that would require that chemicals be safe for the fetus, infant, and other vulnerable populations -- a simple, commonsense idea completely absent from current federal law. |
| Part of this is due to sunscreen's effect of blocking ultraviolet radiation (UV light), which generates the powerful anti-cancer nutrient Vitamin D in human skin. Vitamin D is quite simply the world's best anti-cancer medicine, and recent studies have shown that it can prevent nearly four out of five cancers in women (ALL cancers, including breast cancer, cervical cancer, lung cancer, brain tumors, multiple myeloma and even skin cancer). Click here to read NewsTarget articles on Vitamin D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So astaxanthin, it seems, functions as a sort of internal sunscreen, a nutritional sunscreen. It helps you increase your resistance to excess sun radiation without having to put on external sunscreen, and as you may know, I certainly don't like external sunscreens because they often contain toxic, cancer-causing chemicals all by themselves.
Most sunscreens, for example, are made with artificial chemical fragrances, and these chemicals are absorbed right through the skin. They go right to the liver, where they cause liver damage, and they tend to function as carcinogens in the human system. |
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| If you guessed, "Because the greedy corporations selling the toxic sunscreen products don't want the FDA to study the safety of their products," give yourself golden star sticker. You got it! The FDA has no interest in protecting the public from cancer-causing personal care products, and that simple fact is made abundantly clear by the FDA's 29-year delay to establish basic safety guidelines.
As is increasingly the case, non-profit groups are now doing the job the FDA should be doing but refuses to do. In this case, the Environmental Working Group (www.EWG. |
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The sunscreen industry is a huge scam. Most popular sunscreen products actually cause skin cancer due to the numerous toxic chemicals they contain (which are quickly absorbed into the skin where they cause DNA mutations that lead to cancer). Even worse, sunscreen blocks the UV radiation that allows the skin to manufacture all-important vitamin D -- the most powerful anti-cancer nutrient yet known to modern science. |
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 Holick: And to give you an example of how powerful putting sunscreen on is, if you put a sunscreen on with an SPF of 8, it reduces your ability to make vitamin D in your skin by more than 95%.
Adams: So you're pretty much shutting down vitamin D production with even a mild sunscreen.
Dr. Holick: Exactly. And so what we recommend is you go outside for 5 or 10 minutes, enjoy the sun, make the vitamin D in your arms and legs or hands face and arms, and then put the sunscreen on.
Adams: Right. That does sound sensible. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Sunlight is essential for human health, and of course, the sunscreen companies are going to fight this with their last dying breath, but the fact is that we are far healthier if we eat high-antioxidant, nutrient-dense foods, and get sunlight without sunscreen.
We simply don't need to spend a lot of time and money buying sunscreen and applying it to our skin all the time. Nor do we have to absorb all the dangerous toxic chemicals that are found in sunscreen products, such as cancer-causing fragrance chemicals. So that's a positive change as well. |
Ray D. Strand
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 When you apply your favorite sunscreen, which contains an SPF rating of thirty or greater, you are protecting yourself primarily against UVB light. This allows us to stay out in the sun longer because we are not getting sunburned. But these sunscreens do not offer much, if any, protection against UVA light, which creates significantly more free radicals deeper into the skin. This may in part explain why we have seen a fivefold increase in almost every skin cancer over the past twenty years.
We are finally seeing sunscreens on the market that offer protection against both UVA and UVB sunlight. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Sunburn is actually caused by nutritional deficiencies that leave the skin vulnerable to DNA mutations from radiation, but if you boost your nutrition and protect your nervous system with plant-based nutrients, you'll be naturally resistant to sunburn. The same nutrients, by the way, also protect the optic nerve and eyes from radiation damage. That's why the consumption of berries and carrots, for example, has historically been associated with healthy eye function. (The same nutrients that protect the eyes also protect the skin. |
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| Holick: And to give you an example of how powerful putting sunscreen on is, if you put a sunscreen on with an SPF of 8, it reduces your ability to make vitamin D in your skin by more than 95%.
Adams: So you're pretty much shutting down vitamin D production with even a mild sunscreen.
Dr. Holick: Exactly. And so what we recommend is you go outside for 5 or 10 minutes, enjoy the sun, make the vitamin D in your arms and legs or hands face and arms, and then put the sunscreen on.
Adams: Right. That does sound sensible. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Most popular sunscreen products actually cause skin cancer due to the numerous toxic chemicals they contain (which are quickly absorbed into the skin where they cause DNA mutations that lead to cancer). Even worse, sunscreen blocks the UV radiation that allows the skin to manufacture all-important vitamin D -- the most powerful anti-cancer nutrient yet known to modern science. It prevents over a dozen different cancers, yet parents block it by slathering toxic sunscreen on their children, all while mistakenly believing they're "protecting their children from cancer!" What a scam.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Sunlight is essential for human health, and of course, the sunscreen companies are going to fight this with their last dying breath, but the fact is that we are far healthier if we eat high-antioxidant, nutrient-dense foods, and get sunlight without sunscreen.
We simply don't need to spend a lot of time and money buying sunscreen and applying it to our skin all the time. Nor do we have to absorb all the dangerous toxic chemicals that are found in sunscreen products, such as cancer-causing fragrance chemicals. So that's a positive change as well. |
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| It helps you increase your resistance to excess sun radiation without having to put on external sunscreen, and as you may know, I certainly don't like external sunscreens because they often contain toxic, cancer-causing chemicals all by themselves.
Most sunscreens, for example, are made with artificial chemical fragrances, and these chemicals are absorbed right through the skin. They go right to the liver, where they cause liver damage, and they tend to function as carcinogens in the human system. So, sunscreen is something that I don't recommend people use. |
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Octyomethoxycinnamate (OMC) is an important ingredient in 90 percent of the world's sunscreen lotions. Alarmingly, this chemical has been shown to actually kill living cells. Titanium dioxide, a compound whose toxicity remains unclear, is another ingredient found in many sunscreens. Researchers now say the chemical can be absorbed by human skin. Titanium dioxide is a fine, white powder used in sunscreens because of its ability to reflect and scatter ultraviolet light. The compound's full effects on human health are still under investigation. The U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| They go right to the liver, where they cause liver damage, and they tend to function as carcinogens in the human system. So, sunscreen is something that I don't recommend people use. Of course, common sense should prevail here. If you are pale-skinned and not used to getting a lot of sunlight, and you are planning on going hiking and getting six hours of sun on your skin, definitely consider using some natural sunscreen rather than burning yourself to a crisp. I'm just saying using sunscreen on a regular basis is not something I recommend. |
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 I tend to use no sunscreen whatsoever when I'm out in the sun, because, first of all, I don't believe that sun is damaging to you, and secondly, I know that sunscreen contains a lot of dangerous toxic ingredients that do damage you. Instead of sunscreen, I use high antioxidants in my nutrition to protect me from excessive ultraviolet radiation, and since I've become a healthy individual and relied on nutrition, I've never experienced a sunburn.
When I was in Hawaii, I took this Astaxanthin product as an experiment, and then spent three hours under the intense Hawaiian sun with no shirt on. |
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 Cancer organizations accept millions of dollars from sunscreen manufacturers, for example. And those sunscreen products are made with all sorts of toxic, cancer-causing chemicals that also happen to disrupt normal neurological function. If you look at where the money is coming from that supports most of the "disease" groups, it's all from the companies that expose consumers to synthetic chemicals: drug companies, processed food manufacturers, personal care product companies, and so on. |
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 This is the line of propaganda pushed by the sunscreen industry, and of course the dermatology industry, which has been largely funded by the sunscreen manufacturers. They've been telling people sunlight causes cancer, and you must avoid the sun at all costs.
That’s all hogwash. As I've been saying on this site for quite some time, the human body was designed to live in harmony with sunlight. We evolved under natural sunlight, not under fluorescent lights with a lifetime supply of sunscreen on the shelf. We need sunlight in order to be healthy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I tend to use no sunscreen whatsoever when I'm out in the sun, because, first of all, I don't believe that sun is damaging to you, and secondly, I know that sunscreen contains a lot of dangerous toxic ingredients that do damage you. Instead of sunscreen, I use high antioxidants in my nutrition to protect me from excessive ultraviolet radiation, and since I've become a healthy individual and relied on nutrition, I've never experienced a sunburn.
When I was in Hawaii, I took this Astaxanthin product as an experiment, and then spent three hours under the intense Hawaiian sun with no shirt on. |
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