Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific, controversial new research suggests—and quite possibly even racist. How did we get it so wrong?
An interesting article by Rowan Jacobsen, that shakes things up and tells us what we don't necessarily want to hear. But it all makes sense, especially for us at Skinergies !
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A growing number of experts support the positive health effects of sunlight itself, with the implication that perhaps current sun exposure guidelines may be too rigid or even harmful. When sunlight as a whole is demonized, we at Skinergies believe in photoadaptation and narrow down to incidental sun exposure, that we should worry about.
Why take vitamin D supplements when there’s plenty of natural vitamin D available through sunlight?
When exposed to the sun and specifically to UVB rays, our skin synthetizes what we call vitamin D, also called the Sunshine Vitamin. Vitamin D that we get from the sun is not the same vitamin D that is presented in oral supplements. Vitamin D coming from the sun is actually a hormone, synthetized through a quite complex process by our liver and then our kidneys, before it becomes available for use in the body. Pretty much every of our organs needs vitamin D to function optimally, and essentially every tissue and cell in the body has vitamin D receptors.
