Skin Care

The Importance of Sun Exposure and the Extreme Dangers of Sunscreen and Sunglasses

Due to the terrible dark, rainy, and cold summer here in northern Europe (actually worse than last year, and the year before,) and by request from clients and followers, it’s about time to once again tackle the disinformation about sun exposure. I’ve covered the importance of sun exposure in several other articles, especially those concerning the supplement scam of vitamin D; which simply is an indicator/marker in our blood of sun exposure and has …

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More on Skin Care and the Misinformation About Vitamin C

Vitamin C has mainly three effects on the body. It up-regulates different collagen genes, it’s an antioxidant, and it competes with glucose at the glut-4 receptor. However, sun exposure, vitamin A (animal: retinol), and vitamin K2 (animal: MK4) also up-regulates these collagen genes and many more, rendering vitamin C unnecessary for collagen production (skin, hair, nails, joints, etc.). So, you can only get scurvy if you lack these fat-soluble vitamins. If you get these …

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