Another supplement that many people need is vitamin D3, unless you can get sufficient amounts
of safe sun exposure year - round, or use a tanning bed.
As the dawn of of personalized medicine approaches, it is likely that a combination
of safe sun exposure and supplementation tailored to individuals will be the best strategy to obtain vitamin D.
There are few topics I could write about that would be as controversial as
that of safe sun exposure.
Not exact matches
To help people stay
safe, researchers report in ACS Sensors the development
of a paper - based sensor for monitoring
sun exposure given different skin tones and sunscreen levels.
Recent research shows that not only is
safe sun exposure not harmful, it reduces the risk
of melanoma and other cancers and avoiding the
sun is harmful.
If
sun exposure is a big concern for you or you have a family history
of skin cancers, the
safest option is to avoid the sunscreens that the EWG has said might contribute to skin cancer and use the
safest form
of sun protection: covering up.
You know someone who has been outside every day
of his or her entire life and got sunburned all the time and never got cancer, therefore all
sun exposure is
safe.
Get your daily dose
of sun - The best way to increase your vitamin D levels is through
safe, smart and limited sunscreen - free
exposure to the
sun.
Safe sun exposure is best to get enough
of this vitamin, but an oral vitamin D3 supplement is another option at approximately 8,000 IU's per day.
It processes literally everything that passes through our body, and it's
safe to say that most
of us probably have a chemical overload — toxins enter our body from numerous places in our environment (pollution, car fumes, cigarette smoke,
sun exposure), food (additives, chemicals, artificial flavours, sweeteners, food colouring) and body care products (sodium lauryl sulfate, and too many others to name!)
You can decrease your risk
of cancer by more than half simply by optimizing your vitamin D levels with
sun exposure or a
safe tanning bed.
There IS a way out
of this evil circle, and that is a return to a more holistic diet based on whole foods, along with physical exercise and
safe sun exposure to optimize your vitamin D levels.
In addition, biohackers highlight healthy - living tactics like avoiding caffeine consumption after two in the afternoon in order to achieve sounder sleep, as well as getting a
safe amount
of sun exposure each day to rev up the body's production
of vitamin D.
What I mean by
safe sun exposure depends where you live
of course but we need to be exposed to
sun for a period
of time, normally 10 to 20 minutes in strong sunlight.
This has not been proven, but getting natural doses
of vitamin D with
safe sun exposure and physician supervised supplementation based on your blood levels appears to be a reasonable strategy.