Internal SPF Foods. The Top 5 Countdown.
Posted On June 4, 2018
It’s summertime. And with the combination of more sunshine + more time out in it, sun becomes the best source of vitamin D and also the most readily available source of skin cancer generation.
The bottom line is that you need the sun but not too much. The same thing can also be said for all healthy food choices.
Two glasses of wine per day is good for your heart. It will make you live 10 extra years … ten happy, happy years with the wine. Two bottles per day will kill your liver. Sweet potatoes are of the healthiest of all veggies. But ordering the Potato Palooza Platter every day will contribute to overweight, obesity, diabetes and many other unsavory syllables.
Here’s the problem.
For food, we can give basic guidelines (two glasses of wine, not bottles). But for skin protection, there are no guidelines that work for every person of every skin type in every part of the world. So many variables affect skin cancer risk that any recommendation at all will necessarily fail for most of the people most of the time.
Given that, what are you supposed to do? If you need a rule, just start with this one: don’t burn your skin. And to help your skin avoid sunburn, one solution would be to wear a full-body undersea suit to work every day, or just hole up in your bat cave basement all summer.
Alternatively, there are some short term and longer term solutions. The short term solutions are things you would have to do every time you emerge from your home. These include putting on sun screen, and / or putting on clothing and hats that cover your skin. These external solutions are applied outside your body.
Longer term solutions are applied INSIDE your body, and include foods that decrease the likelihood that your skin will burn in the first place. They do this from within the skin itself, becoming in essence a more durable, water resist, hypoallergenic SPF for your skin.
Another great thing about the internal SPF method is that you don’t have to remember to put it on. It’s inside your skin.
Over the next 5 articles, I am going to describe the foods you can eat to provide an internal SPF for your skin. This will be the tastiest sun screen you have ever applied!
Importantly, none of the foods described are substitutes for topically applied sun screens. The protection they provide to your skin is, in all cases, weaker than what can be achieved by screens. That said, the additional protection is still beneficial, particularly for their ability to repair skin after there has been sun damage.
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