Growing Younger Everyday What Works For Me
We all have been sunburnt at some time and then I think it started in the 90’s when you were told over and over about putting on sunscreen from everyone.
Well, I read something interesting in 2020 about how someone quit eating PUFA/Vegetable Oil and something weird happened.
They stopped getting sunburns. I thought this was crazy. I had already quit vegetable oil a few months earlier, so I decided to test it out.
Just a note on vegetable oil, it’s in everything. I’m not just talking about the oil itself. Pretty much all salad dressings have it and bread.
I have a complete write up on this HERE, all the top food products are at the bottom.
So, for my test I went for a 3-hour hike in Austin in the summer without sunscreen.
The next day I was fine, and I haven’t had a sunburn since.
I went home and threw out my sunscreen just a few months after I threw out my juicer and haven’t used it since.
The sun is good for you and sunscreen blocks the benefits you get. How did our ancestors survive without sunscreen? hmm…
When your diet is high in vegetable oil, your skin is more susceptible to inflammation from the sun.
It will age your skin quicker and increase the risk of skin cancers and sunscreen I have found is full of harmful chemicals.
Why Does Eating Vegetable Oil Give You Sunburn?
Vegetable oils are enriched in omega-6 linoleic acid – it’s an 18-carbon polyunsaturated fatty acid with multiple double bonds, which are unstable.
When you eat linoleic acid, you are accumulating that linoleic acid in your cell membranes, so the more linoleic acid you eat the more it will be in your cell membranes.
These fats will accumulate under your skin.
The Root Cause of Inflammation is oxidation and linoleic acid is much more susceptible to oxidation.
Vegetable oils are so toxic because they cause oxidative stress in our bodies, and oxidative stress drives our inflammatory responses.
UV rays attack the linoleic acid in our cell membranes, and they oxidize in the fat layer below the dermis. The more you have the worse the outcome.
UV rays can’t attack saturated fat because they don’t have any chemical bonds to oxidize. So, you can consider saturated fat a natural anti-inflammatory. But we were preached to for years saturated fat is bad and polyunsaturated is good, so we are loaded with linoleic acid.
The more linoleic acid you have the more inflammation from the sun, and you will burn.
The high inflammation will damage your collagen, the stuff that helps your skin look young.
Enzymes are released during the inflammatory process that breakdown your skin’s collagen. Then when your collagen tries to come back it is degraded, weaker and more prone to wrinkling.
Sunscreens are Toxic
First off, your skin is an organ and absorbs everything.
Sunscreens Contain:
• Oxybenzone
• Octinoxate
• Octisalate
• Octocrylene
• Homosalate
• Avobenzone
The FDA says they all get absorbed into the body after one application and said they could be detected in the blood weeks after their use.
Studies have found these ingredients in breast milk, urine, and blood plasma.
It’s also possible to inhale sunscreen sprays.
Oxybenzone has been linked to hormone disruption.
Constant exposure to sunscreen chemicals raises concerns, especially because there is not enough safety data for most ingredients.
