It's that time of the week for another fatal convenience. This is a bite sized segment that addresses some of society's fatal conveniences and the steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of them. I define fatal conveniences as the things we may be doing because the world we live in makes us believe we have to tap water, shampoo, sunglasses, food. I dive into the hidden truths behind some of our everyday choices that could not only be harming us, but even killing us.

So let's dive in. What's up, everybody? How's it going? Welcome to another edition of Fatal Conveniences.

Who ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. So, hey, I realize that's an intense wording and we're going to get into some intensity right here. We're going to pull back the curtains on sunscreen. I realize it's the end of it's the end of summer, but it's also the beginning of summer in Australia. So it's always summer somewhere. So but this is super important information. I'm going to get out now. Sunscreen, the sun, all of that health.

It's all interconnected. Vitamin D, I'm going to touch on vitamin D a little bit, but I'm going to focus on four main chemicals in sunscreen that is going to create a context for the greater conversation around sunscreen, around our health, around our evolution of this idea of being afraid of the sun when those humans have been dealing with the sun for over two hundred thousand years and have been doing it very well through this thing called melanin production, that creates the colour in your skin.

And the more you go out, the more melanin is produced in, the more vitamin D is produced, et cetera, et cetera. So this is important to start to unpack and to understand. OK, so what is the convenience here? Well, sunscreen cool. Going outside.

Got to protect ourselves, protect ourselves, protect ourselves from the evil sun so people slather themselves sun cancer, melanoma, all of these skin cancers. We're running around afraid of all this stuff. So the fatal convenience is put this sunscreen on to block the sun under any circumstance possible. Our kids were spraying it on, were lathering ourselves SPF of 30 and 50 and 100 even.

But there's some consequences to that. And I'm going to I'm going to get into some of that right now. There's four main ones, Avvo, benzoin oxybenzone, acto Sierra Leone and E capsule. Those are the main chemicals that are very detrimental in the body. And so there's been a lot of tests around this and specifically around these active ingredients around there, finding out more and more that as soon as you put this on your skin, it goes into the blood and absorbs.

And so that's the main thing. Now, we've been saying this. The skin is an organ. The skin is transdermal. Right. It has transdermal effect. And like you go into a shower and if you don't get rid of the chlorine and fluoride, you're absorbing it through the skin. The same thing that when we put on these sunscreens, these chemicals, sunscreens, they're going into the bloodstream causing a biological effect of this chemical fact that is absolutely detrimental for our own health.

So the FDA finally did their own small research. They pulled a small research division and they actually said, OK, so so what's showing up in the blood after we put these sunscreens on and i.e. these sunscreen chemicals? And of course, what they found was that six active ingredients, it was more than just the ones that I mentioned, but the main one was oxybenzone, that by putting on normal amounts, it showed up in the blood. One hundred and eighty times.

The FDA is level of concern after one single application. Hello. So they're they're saying, hey, you know what? These are safe. These are generally recognized as safe that they all love to say. Is that is that scientific when they say it's generally recognized as safe and then no one does tests on it, that companies don't do tests on it. But then when pushed, the FDA does some tests on it as well as some other people.

And it comes up with one single dose of this hormone disrupting chemical that it comes up at one hundred and eighty times. And that is even that's only one dose. And it showed was people don't normally just put one dose on. If they're outside, they put multiple layers on there, multiple doses, and then it's stored at five hundred times. The FDA's level of concern and so previous research has shown that some of these ingredients, the FDA said it can disrupt the hormones and lead to fertility problems, poor birth outcomes for babies and perhaps, of course, cancer.

So your cancer rates go up as you putting on these damn chemical ised blocking sunscreens. So then there was also a study that showed this may affect breast development, infant birth rate, sperm function. As well as when you're running around, it's killing coral reefs, it's hurting the environment, it's toxifying our water so as within so without. So as you do things that it's helping your it's hurting your body. It's also hurting the environment. And we have to keep that connected.

Everything you're doing is affecting the environment. So by trying to protect yourself from this delusion of the sun is going to kill you all the time, then you're also toxifying the environment from the Environmental Working Group. The fact that these chemicals are being found at elevated levels in our blood, combined with evidence that they have been linked to adverse health impacts and other studies, is extremely concerning. This is the vice president of the Environmental Working Group Healthy Living Science Program.

So, you know, I've been looking at the Environmental Working Group and they're doing a lot of powerful research trying to warn us all. But, you know, most people don't know what's going on in all of these things. So hormone disruption, cancer causing and in some instances increase in. The other downside is by putting on sunscreen, you're decreasing your ability to produce vitamin D and vitamin D is a hundred percent critical in healthy bones, calcium production, strong immune system.

And many Americans have low vitamin D because they're afraid they're slapping on all of the sunscreen. Now, your main hormone for your immune system is being absolutely compromised and you have to have that. The production of vitamin D, which is a hormone, is fat soluble and it's happening within the cholesterol and the interactions with the melanin in the skin. And now you're disrupting that whole side of it, decreasing your immune system, keeping you open to other breakdowns that actually help you against cancer.

So how is this possible? We seem to get everything. Everything is the opposite. It just so weird to me. So people have been relying on the skin for making vitamin D and obviously the darker skin you need to stay in the sun longer to receive the same vitamin D levels. The lighter skin we are, the more efficient we are at grabbing the sunlight as quickly as possible. When we migrated to the north, we had less and less sun exposure, so our skin became lighter and pigment so that we could maximize the sun when we had it to increase our vitamin D production.

So the dark skin around the equator, the Africans producing black skin, they could be out in the sun because they were at the equator. And their ability to produce vitamin D took longer because of the increase of skin pigment and melanin. So so Africans away from the equator need to get out in the sun without sunscreen, more so that they increase their vitamin D production. Extremely, extremely important. So we need to understand this from a melanin perspective.

And the more tan you get, the increase of melanin, the longer you need to stay out in the sun to to keep your vitamin D production high. And obviously, when it turns in the winter, wherever you're at, it's probably a good idea to take in vitamin D if you're not getting sun exposure without sunscreen. It's very interesting when you look at Center of Disease Control and Prevention have found that Mexican Americans and African Americans are two to three times more likely than Caucasians to have low vitamin D levels.

This is directly from the CDC in 2011. People who use more sun protection or weigh more than average are also more likely to suffer. So that tells you it right there. And human epidemiological studies have linked low vitamin D to increased mortality from heart disease, colon cancer, breast cancer, et cetera. The other great thing that sun exposure without sunscreen is it increases nitric oxide, which is dilates the blood vessels, which lowers blood pressure. So did you know that sun exposure without sunscreen helps dilate blood vessels, increases the nitric oxide, so it dilates blood vessels and lowers blood pressure?

And this is extremely important. This is directly with sun exposure to sunlight making nitric oxide. People hear this stuff, this is common sense, this is it, there's a lot that we can get into. Around this, but let me leave you with from Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, Dr. L. Lindquist tracked the sunbathing habits of nearly 30 thousand women in Sweden over 20 years. Originally, he was studying blood clots, which he found occurred less frequently in women who spent more time in the sun and less frequently during the summer, Lindquist looked at diabetes next.

Sure enough, the sun worshippers without sunscreen had much lower rates. Melanoma. Questionmark, true, the sun worshippers had a higher incidence of it, but they were eight times less likely to die from it. So even though it can show up, melanoma can show up just like cancer is in us and on us. But the body's regulating itself. But the fact that your immune system is strong because of the sunlight, etc., this creates an incredible long term, big expanded view of what the sun is.

So Linguist's also decided to look at overall mortality rates and the results were shocking. Over 20 years of study, sun avoiders were twice as likely to die as sun worshippers. There is not many. There are not many daily lifestyle choices that double your risk of dying. In a 2016 study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, Lindquist team put it in perspective. Avoidance of sun exposure is a risk factor of a similar magnitude as smoking in terms of life expectancy.

Whoa, that is huge. So sure enough, when we have exposed volunteers to the equivalent of 30 minutes of of summer sunlight without sunscreen there, nitric oxide levels went up and their blood pressure went down because of its connection to heart disease and strokes. Blood pressure is the leading cause of premature death and disease in the world. And the reduction was of magnitude larger enough to prevent millions of deaths on a global level just by exposing yourself without sunscreen to the sun.

OK, so I'm going to leave it at that. I want you just to leave those questions that I left open, because this raises a massive question of even putting on sunscreen or using sunscreen. OK, so what can you do about this honor where you're at, honor what your ancestors have? If you have a history of melanoma in your in your in your epidemiological past family, then just be aware of that. Be aware of where you're starting, how much melanin you have, how much tan you have will give you an indication of how much you can stay in the sun.

Do not burn. That is clear across all research. Burning is not a good idea. And they found that if you're putting on slather and you have been out in the sun much and you're slathering on SPF, that people have a higher chance of burning with using sunscreen. So you have to use your common sense. If you're a light skin, if you're out to long, put on hats, put on clothing and cover up after a certain period of time.

And then you can use zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, which does not go through the skin and cause harm. That's clear on science. And like I said before, bigger SPF is not better. And it's showing that most of the sprays could be infinitely worse in terms of the chemical plant operation that it's causing and opportunities. I have a bunch of information in the show notes, so please go to Darren Olean. Dotcom backslash, fatal conveniences or just fatal conveniences?

Dotcom, and it will take you there. So I have a lot of information from an environmental working group, a couple of brands that I looked at, mad hippie goddess garden also as prebiotics to help the skin keep balanced, badger SPF 30 five and Blue Lizard are some of them so super helpful? Vitamin D is extremely important for the overall health. So we realize that we're we're using all of this stuff. It's detrimental not only to keeping your body in balance, but also eliminate this exposure to these chemicals.

Please do not buy any sunscreens that have these chemicals in them and as well as do your homework. If you can eat it, you can put it on your skin. OK, everyone, that's a big one. I realize I open up a can of worms on that one because I think you're starting to get that. You should not be afraid of the sun, that there's a much bigger picture to apply here and we'll get into that at some point.

But today it's focused on these chemicals that are absolutely harmful, hormone disrupting, cancer causing, and they should not be in any sunscreens or put on any skin whatsoever. And that using sunscreen also blocks very important pathways, nitric oxide, which lowers overall mortality as well as it lowers your vitamin D production, which also lowers the immune system and opens you up to overall mortality levels of death. So there you go. All right. I love you. Thanks for tuning in.

That was the next installment of The Fatal Conveniences.

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30 percent of our volume is mitochondria. So we are largely water. Right. But a lot of that water is within and around the mitochondria. So can you imagine, like, 30 percent of my weight is mitochondria? It's pretty ridiculous. I didn't know that until recently, but so that is our that is our baby. These things are us. We are them. It isn't like they're this other thing. They are us. And the better they work, the better we work.

And so I'm sort of, you know, with with sharing all this, my goal is to get people to be friendly with our mitochondria, because just like you said, the old model is the nuclear model, which is like I have these genes and these are my genes. And it's like, yes, but those are just like we talked about. It's almost like a grocery store. It's like you can go in and get anything you want. It all depends on what you choose.

And the way you choose is by being friends with your mitochondria and doing things in your environment and your life that make them work better and that makes all the nuclear genes be expressed better to.

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