Using Sunscreen Can Cause Cancer

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It's easy to think that slathering on sunscreen will make you practically invulnerable to skin cancer. Those evil rays will just bounce off you a la Superman. The manufacturers of these products don't exactly go out of their way to let you know that this isn't the case.

Most sunscreens only block the ultraviolet rays known as UVB, which cause sunburn and, in the long term, some skin cancer. But they do very little, next to nothing, to filter out the longer UVA rays, which also trigger skin cancer (in fact, UVA is probably more likely to do so). In other words, while you are prevented from being fried like a lobster, other rays that cause serious long-term health problems are pounding your skin unabated.

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Often, wearing sunscreen only makes things worse, because people tend to stay outside longer when they think they're protected by coconut-scented body armor. Thus, they drink up more of the killer UVA.

And lets not forget that it's absolutely crucial for us to get Vitamin D, which is formed when our bods are exposed to UVB, the very wavelength being stopped in its tracks by sunscreen. Among other things, D protects against some cancers, including breast and colon.

To drive another nail into sunscreen's coffin, be aware that when you use it, you're smearing loads of chemicals, some toxic, onto your skin, which drinks them up like soda and pipes them right into your body.

So what's a Sun worshipper to do? Ditch the lotions altogether. Spend small amounts of time in the Sun until your skin acclimates and you're able to stay exposed longer without turning red. If you have to be outside longer, use clothing and things like beach umbrellas to keep the excess rays off your skin. The key is to never burn.

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I doubt using sunscreen (a type of lotion) is more likely to cause cancer than the most powerful thing in the sky. That's just one humble opinion.

reply to post by blowfishdl


Well, your logic is sound, but try using the same with a huge number of members here who feel that there's no way the "most powerful thing in the sky" can compete with our SUV's in terms of global impact.

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The thought that SUVs impact the planet more than our star is nonsense. If it weren't for the sun, heat, photosynthesis, precipitation - life wouldn't have ever occurred. SUV's emit Co2 which is clogging up the atmosphere, but the Sun is what has Created this atmosphere to begin with.

While global warming from emissions is really bad - all of the petrol powered motors on the planet put together wouldn't match 1-1,000th of the sun's power.

Originally posted by blowfishdl
I doubt using sunscreen (a type of lotion) is more likely to cause cancer than the most powerful thing in the sky. That's just one humble opinion.

What is more likely to give you cancer?

a spec of uranium.

or

the sun?

Personally, I'd go with the spec of uranium as more of a cause. But, I'm not a radiologist.

Actually there has been a lot of information in recent years supporting the case on the negatives of using sunscreen.

There are a number of links and a wealth of information of the dangers of sunscreen in the link below which goes into depth on the physical but also envionmental impact that the chemicals in these products make.

www.terressentials.com...


[edit on 23-2-2008 by tarzan]

Yes, cant you see the conspiracy boys ???

CODEX Ali. Vitemines Out of the Food.
SunScreen getting higher and higher on the sunblock factor, meaning Less Vitamines from the Sun.

Basicly we are not getting vitamines !! Ironic isnt it , all the tell us is to deplete our self of Vitamines and make sure you drink up the fluoride water, and dont forget to brush the toothpaste real good into your gums, make it bleed so the fluor poison gos right in there ..

What you think ? where not getting any good sstuff at all..

Well, Ive havent used fluoride paste in a year now, and I use and drink Aloe-Vera , and chewing Vites....Its all good !

I did a thread last year regarding the harmfulness of nano-technology in sunscreen, if anyone is interested it can be found here:

www.abovetopsecret.com...

I'm from Australia and sun cancer is called our "National Cancer" since pretty much most of the population either has it or will get it since they love the Sun. However, I haven't worn suncreen since I was a child and would spend days on end in the sun and I hate the sun.

Now, as a young adult, I don't spend much time in the sun unless I'm walking to the shops or to work and I will only be directly exposed to it for 15 minutes at most. In my case, is it safer NOT to wear sunscreen?

Originally posted by Grock
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To drive another nail into sunscreen's coffin, be aware that when you use it, you're smearing loads of chemicals, some toxic, onto your skin, which drinks them up like soda and pipes them right into your body.

It probablys has a hint of rat poison and a large dash of flouride to round things off for that extra bit of cancer.

[edit on 6/27/2009 by altered_states]

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Vitamin D is just snake oil.it is used to kill rats.it is dangerous.

you should always stay out of the sun or buy a special umbrella which filters out radiation.

vitamins are not needed at all as they are in food already in approved doses by government agencies.


always use plenty of sunscreen.

NEVER GO OUT WITHOUT IT.

YOU WILL GET CANCER AND DIE A HORRIBLE SLOW DEATH.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT THE FDA.

Isn't most sunscreen just a bunch fo chemicals anyway? There's some info and links in the thread Chadwickus posted about that...so in addition to the idea it makes them stay out longer, it also absorbs chemicals which probably doesn't help the situation.

ALERT DIS-INFO Agent is lerking!!!!

Sun screens are poison!!!

The Sun in limited amounts, is good for you!! As well as vitamins!!!

Don't take vaccines!!!!!

not surprising really

read the ingredients

scary stuff

So am I a Dis-Info Agent if I say that I and my family abide by the following instead of using Sunscreen?

1. Avoid direct sunlight at all costs.
2. If contact with direct sunlight cannot be avoided, limit exposure for very short amounts of time (no more than 10-15 minutes).
3. Cover your entire body with clothing, except hands and face, even in filtered sunlight.
4. Always wear sunglasses that shield both UVB and UVA during daylight hours (or after daylight if you want to look kewl).

My family is beyond pale...porcelain white, glow in the dark kind of pale...freckles were even entirely non-existent in our family until the birth of my daughter (and so was red-hair for that matter). Our blue eyes are super-sensitive to light, but with no fine focus (acuity) we see remarkably well in low-light (and we all happen to have the same prescription too!). We have been primarily nocturnal and in recent years get jokingly mistaken for vampires. However, do you know what? No one in my family has ever gotten skin cancer ever...going back as many generations on both sides as there has been since it's discovery (and considering the average death age on both sides of my family is 93 going back over ten generations on both sides, I hardly think that it has ever been).

Most Sunscreen do not protect against UVA, this is true, and you don't need Sunscreen to protect yourself from Skin Cancers either. A little bit of Victorian Sensibility is more than enough to prevent Skin Cancer.

Of course, if you are a Sun Lover and refuse to follow the Victorianesque rules 1-4 listed above, then you have to resort to whatever you can to help however you can. If you must have direct sunlight for prolonged periods of time, without the protection of clothing, then you have to use SOME FORM of protection. Heaven knows no protection is far more dangerous than some protection. So, if you rely on Sunscreen, then a little protection is definitely better than none.

The idea presented by the OP that Sun Lovers don't get enough Vitamin D because of UVB being blocked by Sunscreen is highly questionable. You can get Vitamin D from filtered (and much safer) sunlight in the same quantities as you would entirely exposed, unprotected to direct sunlight.

The two types of Vitamin D that photochemically produced and are essential to vertebrates and mammals are D2 and D3.

D2 is produced by viosterol when any UV irradiation contact is made with the precursor ergosterol in the skin. D2 is then broken down and turned into ergocalciferol. Ergosterol is our natural suncreen. It can more efficiently absorb the ultraviolet radiation that can damage DNA, RNA and protein (although it clearly cannot prevent cancers of the skin).

D3 is much more difficult for the body to manufacture naturally using the photochemical processes. It requires UV light exposure in the very narrow 295-297 nm spectrum to occur. These very precise wavelengths are present in sunlight which occurs daily within the tropics, daily during the spring and summer seasons in temperate regions, and almost never within the arctic circles. However adequate amounts of vitamin D3 can be made in the skin after only ten to fifteen minutes of sun exposure at least two times per week to the face, arms, hands, or back without sunscreen. So covering your body with clothes and getting unfiltered sunlight to the hands and face for limited exposures twice a week for 10 minutes at a time is ample for your body to produce D3.

Actually, with longer exposure to UVB rays, an equilibrium is achieved in the skin, and D3 simply degrades as fast as it is generated...so prolonged exposure to sunlight is actually the primary cause of Vitamin D3 deficiency,!

It is believed that Melanin levels in the body can affect how long of exposure is needed in the face and hands before this equilibrium occurs. It is believed that the lower the Melanin levels, the faster this happens, whereas the higher the Melanin levels, the slower this happens.

The point, however, is that if you see sunlight (direct or not), in just your face and hands for 10 minutes twice a week, then you have more than sufficient levels of Vitamin D3. Unless you are wearing SPF 2000 Sunblock every hour between dawn and dusk, then sunscreen/sunblock isn't going to prevent you from getting your dosage of Vitamin D. To say otherwise is Disinfo.

So, your safety and UV irradiation comes down to the following:

No Risk: Be Victorian and live your life like a Vampire away from the sun except as mentioned in Rules 1-4 above.

Moderate Risk: Use moderation in total exposure to direct sunlight, and use some form of Sunscreen to help protect you when you do.

High Risk: Use neither protection nor limit exposure to direct sunlight.

Really, it's simple as that.


[edit on 28-6-2009 by fraterormus]

Is the search button working properly?

The Sunscreen Myth: How sunscreen products actually promote cancer!

Speaking of sunscreen, it's 103 degrees here.

Time to head to the pool sans sunscreen!

-Dev

Here is a CNN story about the Vitamin D deficiencies rampant among children in the US and the conditions this can cause or exacerbate, among them diabetes, cardiovascular problems, and high blood pressure, as well as the early formation of these diseases, and childhood cancers.

www.cnn.com...


And another about the possible damage sunscreens can do to us, based on their dangerous ingredients.

www.cancer.org...

One more: (keywords "Can Sunscreens Cause Cancer?" Sanjay Gupta on CNN) June 16, 2010. In this interview, he clearly says that a common ingredient, not just in sunscreens, incidentally, speeds tumor growth.

www.cnn.com...

The sun is good for us, and not getting enough is causing problems today in our bodies as we try to prevent them in the future.

Moderation, not absence, is key, and safest, it seems.