How to EMF-Proof Our Skin
Edible Sunscreen, IR & UV Light + How Pale People Can Build Their Skin
But if our natural skin complexion is pale, we have less melanin, which means that we don’t tan as easily.
What do we do?
How do we reap the benefits of the Sun, while making sure we do no harm?
The “experts” tell us to stay out of the Sun, citing studies that have only focused on UV in lab environments, while forgetting to take into account the total solar spectrum.
Building our solar callus (our tan) is wise for two reasons:
- prevents us from burning
- allows us to absorb more UV, creating more melatonin during the day:
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Be a morning person or die as a blue monster
Artificial blue light destroys melatonin in our eyes and depletes our dopamine, causing us to become more light-sensitive to the Sun the more we stay indoors.
On the other hand, the Sunrise has massive amounts of natural blue light, which wakes us up, but is also balanced with red and IR-A (infrared A) light:
The Sun We Can’t See
IR-A is the same as NIR (near infrared). NIR allows us to absorb subcellular melatonin.
“Maisy” by COMΛS is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
IR-A light has a longer wavelength, and penetrates more deeply into our skin. Its longer wavelength is the same reason you see more red in the sky at morning vs. blue (shorter wavelength).
This is why space telescopes like Hubble are engineered to detect in infrared, as it is able to “see” deeper into objects and the infrared light energy (invisible to the naked eye) being emitted from stars:
Credit: https://www.nasa.gov/content/explore-light
IR-A and optical tissue window. credit: Alexander Wunsch
UV: all the blame, none of the credit
Why is this important?
We use UV to make wonderful compounds like vitamin D, thyroid hormones, dopamine, melanin, melatonin, serotonin, and for all you pale vikings out there – urocanic acid.
Urocanic acid creates a type of UV filter from histidine:
As histidine in our bodies absorbs Sunlight, our skin makes urocanic acid that is a UV filter that protects us from sun burn and skin damage.
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