Sunscreen -Think for yourself


 Do this, don’t do that.  Didn’t you read the expert report?  They say…. Research has shown… That person on YouTube, Blog post, someone I know who knows a guy… Everyone, not you is an expert. 

Eat meat, don’t eat meat.  A vegan diet lacks vital nutrients.  A meat diet has too much fat.  Carbs are good, carbs are bad.  All fat, no fat, unsaturated fat.  Only Omega 3s.  Lots of vitamin B but not too much. HIIT workouts, slow walking, only isometrics.  No one knows for sure do they or they know but we don't know who they are.  Everyone is looking for the next latest greatest thing and someone else is going to tell us what that is.

Thinking for ourselves has been lost in translation. What is it that we believe? What makes us believe that, and how can we know what's true or not?

It was proven that tomatoes are poisonous, and a law claims they are vegetables when really, they are fruits.  They are considered fruits since the ripened flower ovary contains seeds.  Between ketchup, spaghetti, salsa, and pizza sauce most people eat them every day.  If we believe everything we see on TV, spinach will turn us into Popeye. Red Bull will make you fly.  Somehow wrapping your food in aluminum foil will give you Alzheimer's.  All things that at one time were believed to be true and yet they are not nor were they ever true.

A good example of this was when I was told that using sunscreen will cause women to become sterile because the manufacturers put estrogen in it. This is why a male friend of mine, with sunburn issues just thinking about going outside, refuses to use Sunscreen.  Never mind skin cancer risks.  Never mind he is not female.  Or that there is no estrogen in Sunscreen.  But someone said it so it must be true.

Let’s think for ourselves.  Who said there is an expensive hard to make nonessential ingredient in Sunscreen?  Not the manufacturers.  Not the labels.  Not the FDA.  Many insurance companies don't even cover estrogen for medical issues when women need it.  Why would it be in sunscreen?

Sunscreen has estrogen in it and it makes women sterile.  Estrogen makes women sterile.  Wait WHAT!!!!   Since when?

How? What's the research behind it? When was this discovered? How many women are now sterile because of sunscreen?  Has there been a spike in sterile women since the 1950s when sunscreen was invented?   Is this more of a problem in warmer climates where more sunscreen is used?  Which women were studied? Is there any other supporting data?  If you don't want kids and/or you’re above the age to have them anyway does this, make sunscreen completely safe?   What is the risk of being sterile versus skin cancer?  Is there a dosage amount?

If all of this was true wouldn't there be a men's and a woman's version, a warning label for children?  It seems someone would have exploited their estrogen-free version by now. 

Truth.

BP-3 and OMC are two common sunscreen ingredients that are also known to have endocrine-disrupting potential 8. They are also prevalent in the air, drinking water, cosmetics, fragrances, and plastic packaging, providing additional routes of exposure to humans 9. They have been detected in urine, blood, semen, amniotic fluid, and breast milk.  However, whether the presence of these ingredients in systemic circulation poses risks to human health is unclear. To answer whether systemic absorption of sunscreen poses risks to human health, further investigation is needed.  (National Library of Medicine)  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

In other words – sunscreen has been around since the 1950s.  The chemicals in sunscreen are also in thousands of other products including water and air.  You are and have been exposed to them. 

Before you toss your Coppertone remember 1 in 5 people will get skin cancer this year.  Electricity is leaking out of your wall and the earth is flat.

 

https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/infertility/conditioninfo/common

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