- The fact that we get sunburns is vindication of the sun’s ‘dangers’ or damage itself. Remember, sunlight is a source of radiation, heat, and light, which all oxidize natural compounds and produce peroxide components. A sunburn is your skin burning and peeling, which isn’t that different from radiation burns to put into perspective – what would happen if someone was sunburned, and stayed in the sun more? When would the damage stop? It wouldn’t.
The sun is a natural thing, but that doesn’t mean our bodies are natural.
- As this next point elucidates, the sun is natural, but that doesn’t mean our bodies are as nature intended – we are grossly deficient in nearly every nutrient, treat our skin very differently from our ancestors, and have more other factors damaging, weakening, and sabotaging our skin’s integrity and viability, as well as recovery and defenses. In the world of war, we’ve already lost.
- Natural oils and skincare or moisturizing products are enough to protect your skin from the sun. The skin’s natural oil barrier itself helps filter UV rays. In fact, sunscreen has less to do with an essential need to protect the skin – after all, our ancestors got sunlight all day without any skincare products – and more to do with compensating modern factors like dry skin from hot showers and poor nutrition leading to poorer antioxidant status and greater susceptibility to the damaging effects of UV rays. This is how ancient humans had no issues with the sun for hours everyday millennia ago. Just putting on coconut oil before going outside or your choice of natural skincare creams or whatever is enough to protect the skin and drastically reduce damage from the sun.
- Zinc is a common sunscreen ingredient. The white nose that lifeguard’s have in media is a zinc oxide product typically. Naturally, eating or supplementing zinc leads to zinc circulating through skin via the bloodstream where it protects against the sun’s damaging effects, and incorporates into skin cells to do the same. Zinc is also needed to produce some antioxidants in the body.
- Vitamin E is a potent antioxidant, and is used in skincare commonly and even as an individual oil itself. It is used in the food and supplement industry to preserve things as well thanks to its antioxidant and anti-peroxidation effects. There is arguably nothing more potent for the skin than Vitamin E as a supplement or topically, it truly is that profound and powerful.
- Selenium is used to produce several endogenous antioxidants which naturally protect the skin from oxidative stress, radiation, and damage from the sun’s rays. It has also been found in studies to improve essentially all skin aspects from reducing inflammation and redness, to of course UV damage, and promoting repair.
- Antioxidants themselves from various herbs, plants, and produce will vastly help improve skin appearance and protect it not only against the sun’s UV rays, but other elements and natural weather. Green Tea, Matcha, Cacao, various colourful fruits and vegetables, even Coffee all contain potent antioxidants which help protect the skin, and are vindicated in many studies as doing so as well as reversing preexisting sunlight damage and wrinkles.
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